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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Political History of India
Casteism and Government Schools: Behind the veils of the Dravidian Delusion
Whenever the Dravidian movement, especially the DMK is challenged on account of corruption or their support for divisive Breaking India Forces or their Hinduphobia, an immediate shield they use is that of their position as defenders of lower castes against caste-based occupation and discrimination in education.
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Political History of India
Dravidian sabotage in education: Behind the veils of the Dravidian Delusion
Tamils in Tamil Nadu have had the benefits of national integration, wider exposure to language among others, denied to them by the Dravidian agitation.
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