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Women film workers fight back against sexual harassment

Governments and industry associations have failed to address the question of safety of women in the entertainment industry.

3 months ago

Shia Crescent and the Rise of Taliban

With India clueless and dazed, its future in Afghanistan is getting grimmer with China, Pakistan, Russia and Iran on the…

3 years ago

‘We need to have children of different abilities, cultures and social classes in a classroom’

The power of value-based quality education can transform society and highlights the teachers’ crucial role in nation-building

4 years ago

Why Pharma lobbies are against HCQ?

The success stories from India and elsewhere where an inexpensive HCQ was used to fight the virus were ignored and…

4 years ago

There Were Three thousand Six Hundred and Fifty-three days

An exploration of the history of thought, this new series by Hardnews stitches together several texts to ask the reader…

4 years ago

Faith and Disease: Understanding Behaviour During Lockdown

Can faith-based communities find a synthesis with modern science in the times of a pandemic?

4 years ago

Reliance Jio- Facebook deal and its many meanings

The big Reliance Jio deal with Facebook and other US companies suggests how US capital is gaining control of cash…

4 years ago

Mental Health and Corona: Better Late, Than Never

Why are the psychologists and social scientists silent? What about mental health and quality of life? What about the burnout…

5 years ago

Terror plot on Republic Day: Will the government tell the real story?

The arrest of a top cop in Kashmir in a terror plot along with terrorists opens a can of worms…

5 years ago

Citizen Amendment Bill: institutionalising division

So why leave out the persecuted communities of Ahmediyas, Sufis, Shias in Pakistan, or the Tamils in Sri Lanka, and…

5 years ago