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From ‘caste public’ to ‘bio public’: How social understanding of migrants has grown during the pandemic Research points at shifting caste dynamics and social equations, both among migrant workers and among the people in their hometowns. 26 Apr, 2021 Migrant workers are yet again thronging railway stations and bus terminals to go back home in the midst of the second wave of the Covid pandemic. Even though the rush hasn’t reached last year’s scale, the signs of a repeat can’t be overlooked. Media reports and images from big cities like Gujarat, suggest that a...

The many shades of saffron Rishi Raj © Provided by The Financial Express The book lays bare how the RSS and its various outfits have, over the past few decades, worked at the grassroots to create a unified Hindu society by bringing the marginalised sections—Dalits, tribals and backward castes—within its fold (Express photo) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a very old organisation in Indian polity and society and though it claims to be social in nature and intent, its influence on Indian politics is more than significant through its political arm, the Bharatiya Jana...

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Eight injured, two critically, in a blast at a government office in Siraha Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, March 15 -- A blast at a government office on Sunday injuring eight persons has raised questions over Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's claim that politics of violence has ended in the country. Two government employees and six service seekers were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off at the Land Revenue Office in Lahan Municipality, Siraha, on Sunday. The condition of two of the injured is said to be critical. Dinesh Bhandari, a service seeker from Dhangadhim...

Signature image: Badri Narayan drew inspiration from myths and allegories   -  BHAGYA PRAKASH× A book on Badri Narayan is a tribute — albeit a belated one — to an artist who did not enjoy the recognition he truly deserved * Narayan did hark back to the past but his works were, nonetheless, grounded in the 20th century * For the storyteller that Narayan was, Indian miniatures, Ajanta frescoes, other Oriental aesthetic legacies mattered as much as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and William Blake * Author Prema Viswanathan has, with admirable tenacity and acuity, dug up the biographical det...