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Jan 27, 2025 | 
thejuggernaut.com | Anandita Abraham
On January 17, 2025, India honored four athletes with its top sports prize. From world chess champion D. Gukesh to double Olympic bronze medalist Manu Bhaker to Paralympic gold medalist Praveen Kumar, the celebrated figures arrived in the nation’s capital to receive the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Anandita Abraham
Two weeks ago, the Independent Schools Council(ISC) said it plans to sue the Government over a decision to impose a tax on private school fees. A quick search reveals that the ISC is a lobby group that represents over 1,400 private schools in the UK, and that at least 10 of the 15 people on the ISC board of directors went to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Anandita Abraham
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced a tuition fees increase for students in England. The announcement, made in the House of Commons today, marks the first such increase in seven years. Tuition fees were last capped in 2017, at ÂŁ9,250 a year. This announcement raises Home student fees to ÂŁ9,535 a year. She expressed regret that her announcement appeared in national media before her official note.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Anandita Abraham
Trigger warning: slurs, racism, IslamophobiaOn the morning of Friday 11th October, at 6:30 am, multiple committee members of the Oxford Majlis Society were targeted with discriminatory messages through the society’s Instagram account, after it had been hacked.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
thejuggernaut.com | Anandita Abraham
Can a country with over 1,635 tongues ever unite under one? In November 2022, an 85-year-old farmer from a village in Tamil Nadu, one of India’s southernmost states, set himself on fire outside a local politician’s office. According to his suicide note, he was protesting the suggested imposition of Hindi in his home state, a threat he had opposed “since childhood.” His name was M.V. Thangavel.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Anandita Abraham
In an exclusive interview with The Oxford Student, the candidate for Chancellor said he “does not seek to politicise” the role, and expects his detention to be “resolved soon.“Imran Khan, the jailed ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, announced his run for the position of Oxford Chancellor on 18th August, from jail. Though any hopes for a quiet, uneventful election were long dashed, Khan’s announcement has been met with incredulity, endorsement, and speculation.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thejuggernaut.com | Anandita Abraham
A viral tweet reignited an age-old debate: why do some Indians view the practice as a “scam,” while others a necessity? “20% for what? INSANE!” reads a viral tweet from Indian YouTuber Ishan Sharma. He is upset that he has to “pay extra just because restaurants pay minimum hourly wages.” He adds, “The entitlement here is on another level.” In the replies, one user calls Indians “cheap,” and asks Sharma to return to India.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Anandita Abraham
Two invitations to speak at Oxford Union debates on current affairs have recently been refused, on similar grounds. Professor Gerald M. Steinberg, invited to speak on the motion “This house recognises Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide”, turned down the invite in a reply in July. On Thursday, Indian filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri refused an invitation to debate the motion “This House Believes in an independent state of Kashmir.”The motion topics are both current and ongoing issues.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
thejuggernaut.com | Anandita Abraham
From the Mughals to travel influencers, the perception of the subcontinent as chaotic, barbaric, and excessive has never gone away. In a viral video titled “India Sucks! Don’t Ever Come Here,” an American traveler presents his brutally honest views as he lands in Varanasi after a 15-hour bus ride. “They’re like flies,” he says about auto rickshaw drivers attempting to win his business. “We finally made it out of the hellhole, post-apocalyptic, polluted landscape that is Delhi,” he declares.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
thejuggernaut.com | Anandita Abraham
Spoiler alert: it’s not about impatience. At train stations or sweet shops in Mumbai, Lahore, or Dhaka, people are often squished together, jostling for an employee’s attention. There may be elbow jabbing and shoe stepping because everyone knows it’s rarely about who got there first. It’s about who’s the most eager, creative, or assertive. Many South Asians find their peers’ refusal to line up or wait their turn particularly frustrating. There are entire Quora and Reddit threads decrying the habit.
