Akash Raha

The author submitted his doctoral thesis in 2019 at JNU and his research interests are protest politics, education, and contemporary political issues. Akash was a research fellow at the University of Würzburg in Germany (2019), was a Charles Wallace fellow-in-residence at King’s College London (2018), and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Kansas (2013-14). He can be contacted at: akashraha@gmail.com

The Indian Spring Against the Contentious CAA

India lingers at the cusp of history wherein its moral compass searches the tipping point as several have been confirmed dead, hundreds lay injured...

Post-Truth Politics: The Symptom, the Cause and the Way Forward

Post-truth age, implicitly and explicitly, denotes the loss of truth, narrative and meaning. Thereafter, truth is merely a relic, an artifact, a notion, an...

The Politics of Paradox in Indian Students’ Protests

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