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Santosh K Singh

Santosh K Singh

Academic

santosh@aud.ac.in

The writer is a Delhi based academic.

By Santosh K Singh

Smoke in Punjab, fire in Delhi

The capital gets its collective guilt sorted by throwing the issue into the rural dustbin.

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How Ram Rahim took advantage of caste fears bred by hierarchical Indian society

The violence in the aftermath of his conviction in a rape case highlights the unfinished task of our nation building.

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How Akhilesh manoeuvred to be in the forefront

It is no coincidence that the talk of Yadav as PM material started doing the rounds immediately after the family-feud was settled.

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A tale of two cities’ parks and empty lives

The green spaces are helpless mirror images of the larger society and its dynamics.

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Masculine public space and the rise of 'sena culture'

Till politicians can't look beyond the vote bank, cult leaders will continue to prosper and flourish.

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Design, democracy and lessons for the Congress

The Grand Old Party lately seems to have mastered the art of self-destruction.

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The return of caste and the need for recasting caste-mindscape

In the land of hundreds and thousands of Jishas and Rohith Vemulas, Tina Dabi must be celebrated but only as an exception.

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Blame the urban upper middle class, not Odd-Even for pollution crisis

The scheme is not just about the numbers, it is about the spirit for a green Delhi.

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Imagining a dialogue between Gandhi and Ambedkar in today's time

We need both Mahatma's spirit of ahimsa combined with Babasaheb's radicalism.

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Why apolitical campuses are suicidal for the idea of the university

At the heart of higher education is the need to train young minds the art of seeing through the status quo.

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Modi's Pakistan visit and what it means for Hindutva fringe groups

To give peace a chance, the PM has to keep the loose cannons of his party reined in.

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India's photoshopped politics sells false dreams

Media has become part of a 'perception industry' while scope and cultural space for real debates have shrunk.

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How the idea of a tolerant India can lose to ISIS

We must not let the myopic and sectarian politics of hatred and fundamentalism destroy it.

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Bollywood, Bihar elections and messages

While Nitish kept quiet most of the time, Lalu provoked the NDA sufficiently to climb down the bar.

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Dark side of technology: Are we becoming dehumanised?

Nature's marvels are to be observed, felt and soaked in; they can never be experienced on our cellphones.

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Did Hindus once eat beef or was Aurangzeb really cruel: Let history be

It is time to remember, acknowledge and reiterate those patches of the past that remind us of our shared cohabitation.

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Green Revolution was the worst thing to happen to the small Indian farmer

This segment of peasantry eventually lost their voice in the larger state-sponsored scheme.

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What Amitabh Bachchan's Deewar teaches you about true bhakti

Millions then perhaps saw themselves in Vijay's ambivalent engagement with god.

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Hey Delhi, why are you not out with the candles?

Are we saying the city's conscience only bleeds when incidents happen within the NCR?

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CCTV surveillance will make us inhuman

The prospect of a society living under a constant web of CCTV surveillance represents the ultimate surrender of human to the machine.

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Perils of becoming a casteless democracy

What we are witnessing is the sidelining of the caste-centric politics to privilege a more fashionable buzz word called "developmental politics".

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Messenger of God: Religion today is bizarre when not barbaric

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been accused of serious charges of rape and murder and has been in midst of deadly conflict with the Sikhs in the past.

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