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Everybody should be able to know that we are making these types of decisions.

Save the internet from corporate censorship

The last five years has seen an inversion of the initial trend.

3 Sept 2018 2:02 AM IST

Google and Facebook take the position that they are not bound by the Indian law; only the US law governs them.

Private censorship

The big question is what role society should play as opposed to social media platforms.

3 Sept 2018 1:58 AM IST

The students will compete for the prestigious national awards, which provides up to USD 30,000 for graduate study. (Representational Image)

Dwindling career prospects in the Indian academia

One certain way that we would not reach the goal to be among elite institutions in the world is by not hiring faculty.

27 Aug 2018 6:31 AM IST

What we see in Europe is a shortage of proper academic positions, and an increase of precarious academic positions

Postdocs find career options petering out

More doctorates is wonderful as it increases the knowledge base of societies, but it simultaneously generates an...

27 Aug 2018 6:23 AM IST

People take to the streets regularly to protest against the increasing levels of gender-based violence in the country.

The terror of masculinity: Abuse of power to show manliness

Ideological masculinity feels threatened under the perpetuation of gender equality.

22 Aug 2018 2:17 AM IST

The misogyny that drives such violence treats women in much the same way as terrorists fighting their enemies in the name of an ethnic or religious cause.

The terror of masculinity: It's violent extremism and terrorism

Women are subjected to threats of rape and murder that are both designed to evoke fear and force them back back to the...

22 Aug 2018 2:15 AM IST

The dreadful malaise of bigotry: Theres bias, even in love

The dreadful malaise of bigotry: There's bias, even in love

Time changes everything. But sadly, it doesn't improve anything that is deeply rooted in religious sentiments.

17 Aug 2018 1:37 AM IST

The dreadful malaise of bigotry: An act of mediocrity to belittle the other

The dreadful malaise of bigotry: An act of mediocrity to belittle the...

Rural Georgia is racially balanced. The racial divide is still obvious, though not predominantly. where once can see...

17 Aug 2018 1:10 AM IST

There are laws and UN declarations to ban these patriarchal, anti-woman practices, but without much success. (Photo: Representational image)

Patriarchy made woman 'the other'

Virginity rituals, menstrual segregation, taboos on women's entry in places of worship are all patriarchal cultural...

9 Aug 2018 6:49 AM IST

The problem is the hypocrisy in Indian society, a manifestation of the deep-rooted patriarchy

Culture may be the great leveller

Studies point out that women of different families within the same group or even of different groups forge stable ties...

9 Aug 2018 6:42 AM IST

The early phase of internet in the 1990s-early 2000 was not highly commercialised. (Representational image)

Info turns into power, absolutely

There are scenarios where the so-called fringe groups can become mainstream and can even come to power. It is what...

30 July 2018 2:09 AM IST

The Conversation article on information warfare being more dangerous than cyber warfare refers to the kind of danger that presents in terms of a takeover, a kind of invasion of the mind and the cognitive terrain.

Toxic information warfare on net defies solutions

People with similar views come together and it becomes a vicious cycle of the same news circulating within the same...

30 July 2018 2:04 AM IST