Sabrang India

SIR 2025-2026: A backdoor exercise to bring in the NRC?

shivasundar - July 7, 2026

The unholy haste behind the ECI’s moves, pushed by an aggressive BJP-RSS regime, to ‘complete’ the ongoing SIR in 31 states across the country...

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SIR 2025-26: Dismantling the very Idea of India?

Parakala Prabhakar - July 6, 2026

In this first part of a recent lecture, erudite public intellectual and political economist, Parakala Prabhakar argues that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) conducted...

India

From Punjab ’95 to Satluj: When cinema becomes a battlefield over history, memory and censorship

sabrangindia - July 6, 2026

From demands for 127 cuts to a sudden removal from ZEE5 just days after release, Punjab '95 has become a defining case study of the constitutional promise of free expression

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

To a living Saint, now dead five years: Meeting to commemorate July 5

sabrangindia - July 6, 2026

July 5, 2026 marks the fifth anniversary of Father Stan Swamy, who’s death in judicial custody in Maharashtra has been condemned for the institutional murder that it was; the 84 year old activist priest, who died of maltreatment by the prison authorities in Mumbai after suffering from the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic was an activist priest remembered for his path-brteaking work among Adivasis in Jharkand

Rights

State cannot escape liability for custodial suicide: Delhi HC

Tanya Arora - July 6, 2026

Court awards ₹18.44 Lakh Compensation to Father of 19-Year-Old Who Died in Police Custody, Rules that every unnatural custodial death, even if classified as suicide, raises constitutional liability

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Why Adivasis seek to re-assert their traditional identity

stan swamy - July 6, 2026

(This piece authored by Fr Stan Swamy was originally published on March 22, 2018. It is now being published on July 4-5, 2026 on...

India

Satluj: A film encountered

A.J. Philip - July 6, 2026

The writer writes; Jaswant Singh Khalra never carried a gun. His weapons were documents, persistence and moral courage. He asked a simple question: Where have all the sons of Punjab gone? This is what the film recounts and why it threatens the Indian state

Hate Speech

Nazia Elahi Khan faces multiple FIRs over alleged hate speech

CJP Team - July 6, 2026

A viral podcast featuring alleged derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad has placed Nazia Elahi Khan at the centre of nationwide controversy, triggering multiple FIRs, police complaints and protests across several states. The episode has also renewed scrutiny of her record of alleged communal hate speech through speeches, campaigns and online interventions

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