Pradeep Narayanan

In discussion with a local programme team of child rights activists in Dindugal, Tamil Nadu, it was stated that "if a local caterer refuses to organise wedding lunch; if the Mandapam owner refuses to let out the marriage hall, if the local…
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Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress has returned to power in West Bengal for the third consecutive time. The 2021 Assembly Elections saw Indian National Congress drawing a blank for the first time in West Bengal. Congress lost in Assam and…
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The film Mandela is a satire on the Indian electoral process, set in the background of Panchayat elections in Soorankudy village. Two opposing candidates belonging to rival castes, Vadakkoorans and Therkkoorans, mobilize members of their…
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Dr Simon Hercules, a 55-year old neurosurgeon, who died of COVID-19, was not allowed a dignified burial. The mob pelted stones causing his family to be taken away. Finally, braving the violence from the mob, Dr Pradeep Kumar, a friend and…
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Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak is remembered for popularising Ganesh Chaturthi and making them instruments for the struggle for Swaraj, the India’s Freedom Movement. On the other hand, E.V. Ramasamy Periyar is known for having broken the…
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Another 19 February. There would again be pompous events to celebrate Shivaji Jayanti. The statue of Shivaji, which is being planned in the Arabian Sea, at 210 metres, is going to be the tallest statue in the world, and that it is going…
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Denotified, Semi-Nomadic and Nomadic Tribal communities are those groups in India that were listed as ‘criminal tribes’, under the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871, enacted by the then British Parliament. Although they were denotified, that…
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Delhi, despite facing the severest of the winters in two decades, is full of life! It is all set to welcome the New Year, 2020, in a brave way. Tens of thousands of young Delhites across classes, beating the winter, are marching from…
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Article 15 is not a Dalit film. It is not a film of the Dalit, by the Dalit or even for the Dalit. The film is probably meant for the upper middle class, who often claim that the caste system is a matter of the past or incidents that…
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