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Political History of India

The Life and Travails of Dr Sathiavani Muthu: A window to the experience of Dalits in the Dravidian movement

Sathiavani Muthu participated in electoral politics for 3 decades and served as Minister in the Tamil Nadu Government twice.
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Culture and History

The Dravidian Movement and the Devadasi Abolition Act: Did a ‘Brahiminical conspiracy’ oppose reforms to the practice as alleged?

The Dravidian movement has long claimed a contribution to the Devadasi Abolition Act. But how true is their claim?
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Opinions

Admin expenses, dependency on local transfer and word clouds: An analysis of Foreign Funding to Indian NGOs with graphs and charts

This short article provides a series of data points that will help break down the nature of foreign funded non-profits in India.
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Government and Policy

NCPCR directive on Child Care Institutions – A welcome decision

Vested interests are using CCIs as a means of earning money and to gain control of large numbers of the young. The action taken by the NCPCR is a welcome step.
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Government and Policy

Economics of Higher Education in India: Tamil Nadu as a sample state

There is a need to derive an economic solution for the issue of NEET protests that we see in Tamil Nadu and the seeming unfairness.
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Government and Policy

An analysis of the FCRA Amendment Bill and the impact it is likely to have on ‘Civil Society Organisations’

The Rajya Sabha has passed The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020 on Wednesday.
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Political History of India

The Dream of Dravida Nadu: How the movement started with heroic speeches and ended in a damp anti-climax

For close to a quarter-century, the demand was for a separate State called Dravida Nadu. However, the DMK did not place much thrust on this demand after the first early years and completely abandoned it in 1963.
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OpIndia Explains

Why Tamil Nadu govt does not want to see the growth of Navodaya Vidyalayas: Some truths about DMK and anti-Hindi agitations

Elements in Tamil movie industry started a campaign of circulating their pictures on social media with the caption ‘I am a Tamil Speaking Indian’ or ‘Hindi Theiyadhu Poda’ – ‘I don’t know Hindi, man!’.
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Media

People must listen to VHP because the Church’s mission in India is not a failure: Here is how The Print is wrong

Once in a while, opinion pieces are published that seek to mollify upper-middle-class Hindu anxiety about rapid conversion by Christian denominations. One such piece...
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Political History of India

How Dravidian ideologues used ‘opposition to Hindi’ to build their ‘protector of Tamil culture’ image and retain power

We will now look at how they used the plank of opposition to Hindi as a means of building their image as protectors of Tamil culture and native rights and to bring them to power.
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