It won’t be tolerated that a person like Kanhaiya Kumar can say anything “just because we have freedom of speech”, Goa Environment and Forest Minister Rajendra Arlekar has said. “Those who think that just because we have freedom of speech and a person like Kanhaiya can say anything… that will not be tolerated,” Arlekar told…
India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) prides itself as a place where student activism and politics flourish. As a bastion of the nation’s left, it’s known, especially among the intellectual class, as fertile ground for liberal thinking. But for about a month now, student politics on campus — and the state’s reaction — have put…
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious ‘Make in India’ campaign will fail if the government does not amend the existing child labour law of the country. Speaking exclusively to The Statesman, Satyarthi said that the government should formulate a new anti-child labour law that is in tandem with the international…
The problem with flying high as a young technology billionaire is that eventually deceit and treachery always triumph over youth and good intentions. Vast and rapidly attained wealth creates its own morally corrupting weather system that follows you around your entire life. The dystopian world that Silicon Valley social media billionaires want to inflict on…