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Kerala Local Body Election Results Ring Alarm Bells in the Left’s Last Bastion

M.P. Basheer - December 16, 2025

The CPI(M)'s Hindu outreach alienated Muslims in northern Kerala while Hindu voters migrated to the BJP anyway, with the Left party getting caught between two vote banks, satisfying neither.

Rule of Law

Allahabad HC: Quashes FIR under draconian UP ‘Anti-Conversion Act’, warns state authorities against lodging ‘Mimeographic Style’ FIRs

CJP Team - December 16, 2025

Apart from quashing the FIR lodged in April 2025 that was patently motivated, the Division Bench held the State to account by asserting its constitutional role and requiring the Principal Secretary (Home) to file a personal affidavit explaining the conduct of the Pratapgarh police

Communal Organisations

RSS: The Flag, the Funds and The Missing Transparency

Aftab Ahmad - December 16, 2025

At first sight, Keshav Kunj in Delhi looks like a luxury hotel—gleaming stone, grand facade, heavy security. Yet this multi–hundreds-crore complex is the headquarters...

Labour

MNREGA to G RAM G: Ideological shift, erosion of rural workers’ rights, increase of fiscal burden on states

sabrangindia - December 15, 2025

In continuance of its assault on constitutional rights, the Constitution itself and a rights based framework in rural work, the Modi 3.0 government’s introduction of a Bill to replace the MGNREGA 2005 twenty years later negates the basic concept and approach of a robust demand driven law

Communalism

Muslim clothes hawker dies after prolonged mob torture in Bihar’s Nawada

sabrangindia - December 15, 2025

A week after being brutally attacked in Nawada, Mohammad Athar Hussain succumbed to his injuries, leaving behind unanswered questions on accountability, identity-based violence, and justice

India

Ensure free & fair elections, Congress warns Election Commissioners, threatens strict action over ‘vote theft’ at a massive show of strength at Delhi’s Ramlila...

sabrangindia - December 15, 2025

The party showcases nearly 6 crore signatures as part of its campaign against vote chori; senior leaders stated that vote theft is an attack on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Constitution, and accuse the BJP-RSS of standing with untruth and power; INC mobilises thousands of party workers at Delhi’s Ramlila Ground on December 15

Culture

Mian Maqdoom Shah shrine, Mumbai’s Mahim Durgah & the December Urs

Vidyadhar Date - December 15, 2025

I saw quite a few processions going towards the Mahim dargah in Mumbai for the annual Urs celebration of the Muslim saint last evening....

Media

Interim bail to Gujarat journalist Mahesh Langa: SC

sabrangindia - December 15, 2025

Langa has been in Sabarmati jail for over 14 months

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Kishtwar Minor’s Rape Case: Selective societal outrage and price of being Gujjar in Kashmir

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The Normalisation of Suicide at IITs: Institutional blindness and failure

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The recent protest at the Lecture Hall of IIT Delhi where slogans of “Investigation, Compensation, and Resignation”, were raised by the student collective raises the crucial demand for redistributive justice, firstly demanding that the administration to recognise these deaths as the failure of institutions to recognise structural inequities, denials and cruelties.

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