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Sheela Barse, a gutsy champion for child rights, juvenile justice and rights of women prisoners

Enakshy Ganguly -
Sheela Barse, a journalist, and activist, known for her pioneering work on these issues among others, passed away Monday night in Pune. She was 84. Indian Express broke the story of her demise; Barse’s family said that the journalist was bedridden for nearly a year after suffering a fall.
Gender and Sexuality

Uttarakhand’s UCC seen through a Muslim women’s political perspective

Hasina Khan & Mridul Kaintura -
Muslim women, battling patriarchy in the courts and within their community make a strong independent case for agency and voice; personal laws and other norms and practices remain stumbling blocks to a community also battling marginalisation within an autocrising majoritarian, Indian democracy
Farm and Forest

‘Kisan Mazdoor Commission’: will examine rising challenges for Indian farmers

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The objective of the KMC is to go “beyond the recommendations of Swaminathan Commission in the light of challenges arising out of the growing corporate control on the supply of farm inputs resulting in the rising cost of production for farmers and on the markets for agricultural produce leading to the loss of incomes from farming”.  
India

Top US academics, including Amartya Sen, condemn long incarceration of journalists & activists, erosion of Indian democracy

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A group of prominent international scholars, academicians, and writers has sounded the alarm over the prolonged incarceration of critics of the BJP government in India; named in the statement are 75 year-old senior journalist and author, Prabir Purkayastha.
Environment

March to border, relay fast on climate change and demands for Ladhakh to continue as climate activist Sonam Wangchuk ends hunger strike after 21...

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Ladakh, India’s highest plateau at 9,800 feet is an ecologically fragile region and has seen protests for months against industrial development, demands for statehood and inclusion in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution; when talks with the union home ministry failed, the hunger strike was launched
Rights

A couple declared Indian again after more than a year of struggle, after CJP steps in

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CJP has triumphed with another victory; a 20-year-old notice from the Foreigner Tribunal was successfully contested and victory was sweet when the couple was declared Indian on March 19, 2024
History

A Tiny Book that Captures Powerful Idea(s) of India

Zahira Rahman -
Two internationally renowned public intellectuals, historian Romila Thapar and literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak met in 2017 and conversed about The idea of India and how it has evolved historically. The conversation was published as a book, seven years later in 2024. Writer and academic Zahira Rahman reviews the book highlighting its insights and historical relevance.
India

Nothing ‘Right’ about India’s Human Rights Commission

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The accreditation review of the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRCI), is scheduled to take place in the last week of March 2024...
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From Victim to Accused: High Court of Gujarat’s 2025 Ruling on Religious Conversion

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