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India’s Censorship Hypocrisy: Ban on Santosh and promotion of Chhaava

sabrangindia - March 28, 2025

When films that expose caste and gender violence are banned, but nationalist narratives are celebrated, what remains of artistic freedom?

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

‘Diluted Existing Rules’: Rohith Vemula, Payal Tadvi’s Mothers Slam UGC’s Draft Equity Regulations

Sukanya Shantha - March 28, 2025

The proposed equity regulations, besides lacking clear definitions of discrimination, also exclude the OBC community from their scope.

Media

Assam: Journalist Dilwar Hussain Mozumdar detained for 12 hours, arrested after covering protest against an alleged recruitment scam involving key BJP leaders

sabrangindia - March 27, 2025

The detention and arrest of senior journalist Dilwar Hussain Mozumdar, following his coverage of a protest against alleged financial irregularities in a state-linked bank, highlight the growing misuse of laws to silence independent journalism

Rule of Law

Supreme Court intervenes in POCSO case, stays Allahabad HC’s “shocking” judgment that downplayed sexual assault against minor

sabrangindia - March 26, 2025

SC calls HC’s judgment “shocking” and “inhuman” for ruling that acts of sexual violence against a minor did not amount to attempt to rape, highlights judicial insensitivity

India

Syncretic Dreams, Shattered Realities: Kashmir in “The Hybrid Wanderers”

Gaurav Tiwari - March 26, 2025

In a world where the lines between home and exile blur, The Hybrid Wanderers by Ashok Kaul beckons us to journey through the fragmented...

Education

KIIT Suicide Case: Nepalese student’s harassment complaint ignored for 11 months before tragic suicide

sabrangindia - March 26, 2025

In a startling revelation, Odisha’s Higher Education Minister Suryavanshi Suraj disclosed that Prakriti Lamsal, a 20-year-old Nepalese student who took her life at KIIT University in February 2025, had filed a sexual harassment complaint on March 12, 2024, NHRC also ordered an on-spot inquiry into the death

Communalism

The paradox of nationalism & Indian representation abroad: S. Jaishankar’s visit to my university

Joshua Lobo - March 26, 2025

A student at the University College Dublin, positions his experience of the Indian external affairs minister recent visit to the country where he studies; the author sensitively probes the worrying dichotomy of unconcern with the situation back home that the majority Indian diaspora experiences, even as India and Indians falter on the human rights indices test

Religion

The inherent problem with political Islam

V.A. Mohamad Ashrof - March 26, 2025

There is a big difference between Islamic and Islamist/Islamism

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