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Stop using politics of hate to hide failure to protect women and their rights: Open Letter to Uttarakhand Govt

In a strong open communication to the governor of Uttarakhand, citizens groups have urged termperance in governance. While pointing out the spiralling crimes against women, signatories have pointed out how hate crimes against minorities are being deliberately fuelled to divert attention from these, especially the role of BJP politicians in them

Supreme Court halts nationwide demolitions through interim order, emphasising the ethos of the Constitution

Supreme Court criticized glorification, grandstanding of bulldozer action and directs no demolition anywhere across country without permission

When looks embody the soul: Sitaram Yechury

It took the tragic jolt of Sita’s passing for this thought to crystallise. That In some exceptional people, looks embody the soul and razor...

Somewhere in the North-East

In school, in Geography, we were tested on India’s political map. This required us to know the location, vague outline and capital of each...

For Umar Khalid

The streets are not painted with graffiti.Angry banners do not fly against the sky.People do not walk across cities, rallying voicesAgainst the incarceration of...

Ladakh’s fight for autonomy: Sonam Wangchuk leads foot march to Delhi

Demanding statehood and Sixth Schedule protections, Ladakhis rally to preserve their cultural heritage and fragile ecosystem amidst growing political and environmental challenges

‘You left us a decade too soon, when India needed its body healed and soul rejuvenated’: a farewell to comrade Sitaram Yechury

In this brief evocative farewell note, actor and theatre person, Joy Sengupta regrets “how comrade Sitaram Yechury left a decade too soon, just as Indian politics  needed all the sanity and empathy you embodied: sane and empathetic leaders to collectively help, heal its body and rejuvenate its soul”

Kin of incarcerated anti-CAA activists question Selective use of ‘Bail is the Rule’ principle

Several of the families of Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima, Umar Khalid, Khalid Saifi and Athar Khan together questioned their prolonged incarceration despite Supreme Court repeatedly saying that ‘bail is the rule’.

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Peaceful Sunday protests across 35 parishes led by the Bombay Catholic Sabha warned that the so-called ‘Freedom of Religion’ Bill threatens Article 25 rights, risks criminalising compassion, and could become a political tool to harass minority communities

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Building on Pankaj Bansal and Prabir Purkayastha judgements, the Court constitutionalised a uniform standard—every arrest, whether under IPC/BNS or special enactments, must be supported by written grounds communicated in the arrestee’s own language, failing which the arrest stands void
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