In the past 15 months, women have risen in significant numbers to protest against sexual violence and harassment they have experienced, whether in Manipur, among women wrestlers, students of BHU, or in Sandeshkhali.
The author makes a convincing argument –based on a close study of the past century --for doses of rationality and soul-searching in the ongoing battle for minority rights and dignity, urges Indian Muslims to make their own contribution to invest in secularising India, and baldly asserts that minority communalism is no antidote to majoirtarianism
“On International Women’s Day, I acknowledge and thank those rural women who taught me about climate resilience, environment protection, and how to fight for survival. “
The DUJ, in this call on International Women’s Day (IWD), has called for a more inclusive media and urged greater gender diversity and representation apart from demanding a law to protect journalists from arbitrary arrests, coercion and intimidation
Despite all efforts of the Maharashtra government to seek a stay on the acquittal which was refused by the High Court (HC), professor Saibaba was released on March 7. The decade long incarceration of a disabled professor and his colleagues was marked with particular insensitivity by the Maharashtra jail authorities who denied him basic essentials; he had to even go on a hunger strike to push for the removal of CCTV cameras from the toilet and bathing area and demanding reading/writing materials.
It has been 4 years since the north east Delhi communal violence took place. However, the court case has seen a rocky road with several acquittals, with the court rapping the Delhi police for “shoddy investigation”, amidst all of this, the casualty continue to be the survivors of the violence.
In a recent report, the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) has unveiled stark figures and has shed light on the current situation that has resulted out of forced evictions in India during the years 2022 and 2023.
From the landmark mandate of Laxmi v. Union of India to the BNS, a critical examination of why progressive legal doctrine continues to falter against the wall of administrative inertia and systemic trial delays
In a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, V.D. Satheesan, Congress leader of the opposition Kerala Assembly has sought urgent intervention regarding the detention/arrest of twelve individuals, including Father Sudhir, a priest of the CSI South Kerala Diocese, arrested by the Maharashtra Police following a complaint filed by Bajrang Dal activists