Category: Op-Ed

The Politicisation of Organised Religion and Freedom. This session of JanPaigam explored the link between faith and freedom within India. The discussion was conducted by Ms. Akriti Bhatia, Founder and Director of PAIGAM, and Dr. Valson Thampu, an author, scholar, and the former Principal of St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. Throughout the discussion, discourses…

In this podcast, Mr. Pathak takes us on a tour of India’s history and sheds light on those aspects of history that have been ignored over the past decades. Mr. Vikas Pathak is a former journalist at the Hindu, Hindustan Times, Asiaville, etc, and the author of the book Contesting Nationalisms. His deep understanding of…

Talkpoint captures real-life narratives, haunting anecdotes from survivors of the Partition of 1947, and the 1984 Sikh pogrom. These tales act as lessons from history that form a basis for further introspection for the present. Mr. Surinder Nath Malhotra narrates his experience of the Partition. At the time when we had to move across the…

THE WOMEN BHAKTAS IN INDIAN HISTORY: SUBVERTING GENDER ROLES? Author bio: Aqsa Agha (Ph.D, JNU) teaches history at Delhi University and is consulting with Partners in Change, New Delhi. She has worked extensively on issues of human trafficking (TISS, Mumbai) and on human rights violation with different organisations. She has previously worked with Centre for…

In conversation with Dr. Laurence Gautier. Q1) How did the concept of citizenship emerge? If you look at global history, not just Indian history, you will see that we often trace the idea of citizenship back to Ancient Greece, that’s the 5th or the 6th century BC. Of course when you hear the word citizenship,…

Caste in Christianity; Conversions and Problems Faced by Dalit Christians. In this month’s Samvaad discussion, Dr. Sanal Mohan, author of Modernity of Slavery: Struggles Against Caste Inequality in Colonial Kerala, talks about the discrimination meted out the Dalit Christians from a historical and socio- anthropological . He begins with explaining the social fabric in colonial…

This article deals with the recent controversy surrounding the book withdrawal by Bloomsbury; and analyses the issues at hand and proposes a better paradigm.

This article analyses the existing understanding of the constitutional protections offered to free speech and how it is strictly limited by precedents and provisions alike.

The informal economy in India comprises over 90% of the workforce. This large population is excluded from the security and benefits that the other workforce enjoys. Considering the enormity of the sector, this article discusses some of the reasons that has nurtured the sector and the state of the sector today.