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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’.

Disgust and dismay at INC nominating Lal Singh as candidate in J & K elections: CCG

Close to 96 former IAS and IFS officers have strongly conveyed their disgust and dismay at the Indian National Congress’ (INC) nomination of Lal Singh as a candidate in the upcoming J & K state polls; Chaudhary Lal Singh, along with some of his colleagues, had, in April 2018, organized and led a public march in support of the perpetrators of what was “probably the most horrifying hate crime in  India’s recent history – the brutal, bestial rape and murder of a minor Muslim girl in Kathua.”

Nationwide surge in Anti-Muslim violence: September 15-17 sees unprecedented attacks and discrimination

A detailed look at the events intensifying communal divides, rising islamophobia and state complicity from Jharkhand to Himachal

Truth about the Sanjauli Mosque issue: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh

A week ago, Thursday, September 5, 2024, Hindutva groups mobilised under Dev Bhoomi Sangharsh Committee staged massive protests at the Chaura Maidan, in Shimla and...

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