This paper discusses a recent episode over elections to the Student Union at Hyderabad Central University. The active negotiation of women’s invisibility in student electoral politics underwent a radical transformation when issues of caste were addressed simultaneously with those of gender.

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The wickedness and awesome cruelty of a crushed and humiliated people
By Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk is the man Noam Chomsky exhorts all to read in these troubled times. He is the Middle East correspondent for the London Independent. This article was published in Independent on 12 September 2001.

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Readymade ideas
By Vijay Prashad

This is a review of the book titled 'The Cold War and the University: Towards an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years'. It appeared in the Frontline (November 07-20, 1998 issue). Vijay Prashad is an Assistant Professor of International Studies, Trinity College at Hartford, United States. To read the whole article, click here.