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Reflexive Tidings
An in-depth look at contemporary issues in Indian society — in an inter-connected world - in relation to caste, class, gender, religion and human rights.
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Reservation and Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action in US, lessons for India on reservation
Affirmative Action in US, lessons for India on reservation
Independent implementation agency, voluntary policies in private sector and holistic policies in education to improve diversity: there is…
Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 9, 2020
Ahead of India’s reservation is South Africa’s transformation
Ahead of India’s reservation is South Africa’s transformation
South Africa’s reservation policy or transformation, as it’s called there, has been the most innovative. It has gone ahead of quotas in…
Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 12, 2020
Gender
Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 12, 2020
Paternity leave: Let’s bring men to the swaddle
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Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 12, 2020
Decoding masculine gaze at women’s sports
Disparaging women’s sports by comparing it with men’s or by focusing more on their body
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Religion
Increasing Islamophobia in India: Time to act
Increasing Islamophobia in India: Time to act
Figure some news reports in the past few years: Muslims assaulted on a train and mocked over their skull caps and scarves; students being…
Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 12, 2020
Creeping paranoia of Islamophobia in West
Creeping paranoia of Islamophobia in West
22 percent of Americans don’t want a Muslim neighbor; 31 percent feel fidgety if they see a Muslim man on their flight, and 18 percent if…
Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 12, 2020
Disembarking formal religious identity in India
Disembarking formal religious identity in India
While waiting for my interview to take place for a well-known magazine, I was quite confounded when they asked me to fill a long form…
Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 12, 2020
Rights
Right to Reject elected representatives in India: Move over NOTA
Right to Reject elected representatives in India: Move over NOTA
In the long fight for electoral reforms in India, when the debate had been for the ‘Right to Reject’ a candidate to be a part of our…
Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 12, 2020
Sports and not-so-much Freedom of Speech
Sports and not-so-much Freedom of Speech
If sports is there, can politics be far behind? This is probably the most vague analogy I could draw from English poet PB Shelley’s quote…
Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 12, 2020
Hate speech: Psychological bandwagon of social media
Hate speech: Psychological bandwagon of social media
We are living in the world of hate. Social media has made it even more evident. From the real to the virtual world, humanity has started…
Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 12, 2020
Criminal defamation — Bane of free press
Criminal defamation — Bane of free press
The unity forged by Sri Lankan media to get criminal defamation repealed by its Parliament has a lot of lessons in store for the Indian…
Rohan Kathpalia
Nov 25, 2020
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