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So Barkha you want such ‘freedom for media’

Ashish Shukla - August 13, 2016

“Is this the kind of freedom Barkha Dutt wants for Indian media,” my wife, sipping her tea, asked me this morning. She was drawing my attention...

Google search to fix ‘Holy Cows’ of Media

Ashish Shukla - August 9, 2016

The first thing that comes to your mind is that it’s so disproportionate. The massive Dalit uprising on Una flogging in Gujarat is way out...

Why ‘Shaktimaan’ matters and not cows

Ashish Shukla - August 1, 2016

We all know Shaktimaan the horse. From March 14 to April 20 this year, between its unfortunate injury and death, it remained a front...

Angoorlata and her oath in Sanskrit

Ashish Shukla - June 3, 2016

Angoorlata Deka, the newly elected BJP MLA from Batadroba constituency in Assam, has made front-page headlines with her oath in Sanskrit language. The newspapers...

Indus Era: The Aryan theory propaganda

Ashish Shukla - May 29, 2016

“Decolonisation of our minds could only begin when we start to consider that our history might be what the others did not write. “...

‘Lord Rama not a mythical character’

Ashish Shukla - May 13, 2016

Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar died on this day—May 13—in 1950. One of India’s greatest archaeologist, Bhandarkar unearthed the entire city of Nagari in Chittorgarh district...

’57 Mutiny Day: It’s modern relevance

Ashish Shukla - May 11, 2016

To this very day, May 11, 1857, Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar received a few hundreds of East Indian Company cavalrymen in Red Fort,...

And so Press Council asked ‘Indalit Express’

Ashish Shukla - May 10, 2016

With great delight readers we announce the forming of People’s Press Council. Regularly, we will analyse and ask a few questions to our mainsream...

The riddle Ramanujan left unsolved

Ashish Shukla - May 6, 2016

Watching the movie, “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” would tell you a great deal about mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan but there’s a puzzle to...

Being Hindu in an intolerant India

Newsbred Staff - May 1, 2016

There are few books on Hinduism recently published, authored by practicing Hindus with modern, young, English speaking Hindus as their target audiences and which...

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