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

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.

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

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

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

“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. “

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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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Healthcare in Karnataka: Is a Health Bill the Need of the Hour?

The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires

Suo moto cognisance of repeated hate speech by CM Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma must: Assam’s public intellectuals to Gauhati HC

Close to a dozen public intellectuals including Hiren Gohain, Harekrishna Deka, former DGP, Assam and author, Dr. Indrani Dutta, former Director, Omiyo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, among so many others, have in a letter petition to CJ, Gauhati High Court, Justice Vijay Bishnoi drawn attention of the Court to series of inciteful statements by Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister and urged suo moto cognisance

Assam’s Electoral Rolls in Crisis: CJP flags structural manipulation in Summary Revision

CJP-led memorandum to the Election Commission documents forged objections, misuse of Form 7, and violations of statutory safeguards meant to protect the right to vote

Campuses in Revolt: How the UGC Equity Stay and Criminalised Dissent Have Ignited Student Protests Across India

From Allahabad University to JNU, BHU and Delhi University, students are pushing back against the silencing of caste critique and the suspension of long-awaited equity safeguards

Another Campus, Another Death: Student suicides continue unabated across India

The deaths of Naman Agarwal and several others in recent days reveal a system where inquiries begin only after lives are lost; from IIT Bombay to BITS Goa, a spate of student deaths in just days exposes the hollowness of institutional safeguards and mental-health promises
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