Dowry violence kills thousands of Indian women every year. New research reveals why no one is marching in the streets.

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

The paper trails and traps of India’s bureaucracy are legendary. The Indian state is not so much an iron cage as a vast, papyraceous web of documents—certifying a recipient of welfare, a legible citiz...

A pair of world-renowned history scholars have been recognised for their work after being elected Fellows of the Higher Education Academy. Professor Jane Whittle and Professor Mark Jackson were among ...

The death of a newlywed woman in Delhi last weekend is among a string of cases this year rekindling public discussion in India about dowry deaths. Thousands of women are reportedly killed in India eve...

Thousands of women are killed in dowry disputes each year, despite the practice being banned in 1961

Abstract. This article investigates the relationship between attention and large‐scale killing that takes place away from warzones and battlefields. Structural femicide in India in the form of dowry d...

The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into…

A single university can do little to demand accountability from rankings companies, but together institutions can demand reciprocal transparency, nego...

At the helm of nation-states sit men on the brink of their biological expiry, curled around launch codes and bunker-buster fantasies. It is not the young who want the world to end – it is the dying, d...

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Dr Kriti Kapila will deliver a talk on the discovery of the rare blood group.

Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electrici...