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Horizontal Equality Shrinks Away: Personal Data Protection Bill 2023, 2019 and Other Subject-Specific Laws
The latest draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 has confirmed that there will be no distinction made for sensitive or special personal data. Provisions that attempted to protect sensitive data with respect to sex life, sexual orientation, transgender or intersex status, caste or tribe and religious or political belief or affiliation are now →
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One Rupee: The Price of the Narrative
On 31st August, in Kerala, people celebrated Onam and in Delhi, people celebrated Prashant Bhushan’s victory- in both places, the scourge of the ‘co-opt and conquer’ strategy runs rife. One of the dominant myths of the Onam festival is that it is the return of the king Mahabali. The Hindu narration of this tale suggests →
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Kancha Ilaiah’s ‘Why I Am not a Hindu’ inverts my understanding of many things ‘Indian’
When I first picked up this book, I expected a detailed description of caste being inherently tied with Hinduism, which is conversation you read about in newspapers now and then. The book, however, describes society in a way which most savarna Hindus like me would never have encountered- that the Dalitbahujan tradition is not Hinduism, →
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Puja
Puja= a Hindu ritual that involves giving offerings to God in the form of coconuts, bananas, money, etc. that involves the burning of camphor and incense sticks among other things. Tendrils of coconut fiber flew up from the flames Of camphor, slithering around in air like snakes Looking for prey to land on; it settled →
Mihir Rajamane 