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Women’s protests against sexual violence continue as institutions bend to power

sabrangindia - March 8, 2024

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.

India

Three Banes of India’s Muslims: Victimhood Syndrome, Power Theology, Obsession with Identity Politics

Mohammad Sajjad - March 8, 2024

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

Education

The Village Classroom: Rural Indian Women Can Teach About Climate Resilience, Fight For Survival

Nidhi Jamwal - March 8, 2024

“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. “

India

Creating an NPR for an all India NRC without informed consent?

teesta setalvad - March 8, 2024

Citizens activism through the Right to Information Act (RTI) has revealed how, a giant step towards NPR and NRC has been possibly taken by...

Media

On Women’s Day DUJ Call for a Less Polarized, More Inclusive Media

sabrangindia - March 7, 2024

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

Freedom

GN Saibaba wheeled out of Nagpur Central Jail on March 7 two days after the Bombay HC resoundingly acquitted him & 5 others in...

Legal Researcher - March 7, 2024

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.

Communalism

Delhi violence 2020: 4 years on, the shadow of violence lives on

sabrangindia - March 7, 2024

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.

India

Report: 294 houses demolished on a daily basis in 2023 in India

sabrangindia - March 6, 2024

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.

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July 2026: A dissent that was brutally put down, a crackdown after the protest ended

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Permission to Protest? Why the right to dissent needs no licence

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Bail Stays, But Under Tight Curbs: Delhi HC’s order in Parvez-Mehraj UAPA case

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Court finds trial judge failed to apply the stringent Section 43D (5) test, but declines to send accused back to prison; imposes sweeping restrictions as NIA's appeal continues

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