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Rahul Verma

Kanpur
As seen in: MSN India, The Indian Express, Frontline India, The Hindu, The Quint, The Telegraph (India), The Wire (India), Countercurrents, NewsClick, The India Forum
Covers:  Urban Affairs, Labour & Employment, Caste & Social Inequality, Public Policy, Education

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Rahul Verma’s Biography

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Rahul Verma is a sociologically trained writer and researcher working at the intersection of urban sociology, labour, caste and education in contemporary India. He holds a Master’s degree in Sociology. His writing engages with infrastructure, sanitation labour, informal economies, digital inequalities and public education, examining how development and policy reshape everyday life and social hierarchies.

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Children's Rights in India: Who Speaks for Them?

Children's Rights in India: Who Speaks for Them?

India's school systems track children but often fail to hear them. SMCs, NCPCR, and data systems must protect…

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JNU V-C Santishree Pandit’s tenure: reform, rupture or repetition?

JNU V-C Santishree Pandit’s tenure: reform, rupture or repetition?

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How ‘JNU-type’ hiring erodes learning across campuses

How ‘JNU-type’ hiring erodes learning across campuses

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Leaked papers and lost years in India's recruitment system

Leaked papers and lost years in India's recruitment system

Amid protests, Jharkhand's aspirants demand a comprehensive investigation into systemic recruitment failures …

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Maestro on trial

Maestro on trial

The charge that Ray peddled poverty to the West has circulated since the 1950s when some commentators worried…

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Why adult literacy keeps being relaunched

Why adult literacy keeps being relaunched

The most durable evidence on effective adult education comes from campaigns that treated literacy as a social…

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Who speaks for children too young to protest?

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By Rahul Verma, Vikas Kumar Verified, Vaishna Roy Verified
| Frontline India Verified
“The child has always been the forgotten citizen.” — Maria Montessori On July 25, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned after weeks of student protests over the NEET-UG examination crisis. Three days later, on July 28, students from classes VI to XII staged a sit-in at Sarvodaya Inter College in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, holding portraits of B.R. Ambedkar and handmade placards.
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Leaked papers and lost years in India’s recruitment system

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By Rahul Verma
| The Hindu Verified
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on July 24 after five weeks of protest over a leaked NEET-UG paper as part of a Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) campaign that drew a 36-day hunger strike by activist Sonam Wangchuk. The leak was not an isolated failure. However, NEET has faced leak controversies in 2021, 2024 and now 2026, following attempted leaks in 2017 and the cancellation of its predecessor exam over a leak in 2015.
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Opinion From Jantar Mantar to Bankipur, a new vocabulary of politics – BJP, Opposition must pay heed

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By Pradeep Chhibber, Rahul Verma
| The Indian Express Verified
The political aftershocks did not stop in Delhi. Days later, the BJP lost Bankipur – one of its safest urban constituencies in Bihar which has been represented by the BJP’s national president or his family members for nearly three decades. Six months after Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj was dismissed as an electoral experiment, it captured precisely the kind of affluent, upper-caste, urban seat that should have remained comfortably with the BJP.
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