While hundreds of international students and researchers, including many from India, become confused and frustrated by the abrupt shrinkage and termination of graduate and research programmes in the US, these closures by the Trump administration draw implicit support from a larger American loss of faith in higher education across the entire political spectrum. 

The tragedy striking through the Kumbh Mela reminds us of the deeply mortal vulnerability that always makes up the heart of prayer. Time for us to remember that this is a nation where another kind of prayer has been vulnerable for several years now.

Names for the violent birth, artistic youth, and the economic coming of age of a subcontinent through the 20th century.

'The Amateur' reads the self-formation of intellectuals under systems of colonial education that are variously repressive, exclusionary, broken, or narrowly instrumental.

The fact that our sustained apathy for corruption has enabled the dehumanising violation of women points to one of the most distressing realities of Indian life – the widespread and persistent lack of concern for the minoritised.

That the inevitable consequence of this mechanism would be chilling masculine violence to a woman’s body and life was already cast in the script. 

When the education policy recommends the inclusion of religious knowledge in the curriculum, it goes far beyond the personal value of an individual teacher, or even a school.

As more instances of discrimination are reported in countries such as the US and the UK, the caste system has now been globalised.