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Beed, Marathwada: A heady and dangerous mix of mafia-political nexus has tainted the social fabric

Part 2: Between the sand and ash mafias and the Maratha- OBC caste war, with Vanjaris right at the centre, the social fabric of Marathwada, a land of deep agrarian crisis and migration sees bitter schisms

Attempts to Undermine Gandhi’s Contribution to Freedom Movement: Musings on Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day

Eric Hobswam famously stated that History is as important to (sectarianism) Nationalism as poppy is to an opium addict. The right wing is surging...

Honour for killers of Gauri Lankesh and MM Kalburgi in Karnataka, public felicitation and terms like “Hindu tigers” for accused Amit Baddi and Ganesh...

From garlanding accused assassins to honouring convicted rapists and lynchers, the organised glorification of hate criminals by far-right Hindutva groups is eroding India's rule of law and normalising violence

Delhi Police on Trial: Three court orders reveal collusion, cover-ups, and custodial torture by police officers during 2020 Delhi riots

Court rulings reveal selective investigation shielding BJP’s Kapil Mishra, wrongful prosecution of six men based on flimsy evidence, and custodial violence against Muslim detainees—forcing an FIR against a former SHO

Supreme Court: Calls for legal protections for domestic workers

Ensuring fair wages, social security, and dignity for India’s domestic workforce

“Beed has become the new caste now!” an in-depth exploration of simmering caste tensions in Marathwada

Part 1: In the wake of the brute December 2024 murder of a beloved Sarpanch of Massajog village of Beed district, Santosh Deshmukh. The author in this ground report from Beed, Marathwada, a land of agrarian hardships, documents the emergence of a dangerous, even venal form of casteism that is seriously tearing away at the social fabric

Hate speech – a convenient tool in election campaigns

‘Genocide is a process, not an event. It did not start with the gas chambers, it started with hate speech'  Sheri P RosenbergHate speech...

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