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ECI’s announced nationwide SIR, will cover 12 States and UTs with a reduced documentary burden

Aman Khan - October 28, 2025

The ECI’s nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR), announced across 12 States and Union Territories — including Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal — scales back the stringent document collection requirements seen earlier in Bihar’s SIR, prioritising inclusion over immediate documentary proof during enumeration

Rights

Citizens move to stop privatisation of Mumbai’s Public Hospitals

sabrangindia - October 27, 2025

Aspatal Bachao Neejikaran Hatao Kruti Samiti and Unions that font a coalition are also demanding adequate health staff and upgraded public health services for all people of Mumbai

Communalism

Can majoritarian societal pressure re-write the rulebook? The illegality behind forced non-veg shutdowns during festivals

Aman Khan - October 27, 2025

Across cities, self-styled vigilantes and pliant administrations are turning a majoritarian religious sentiment into state policy—forcing meat shops shut, harassing small vendors, and eroding constitutional freedoms. As livelihood and dietary choice fall victim to faith-led policing, we ask, can devotion be invoked to justify discrimination? Does this trend underline how faith is being weaponised to erode rights and livelihoods?

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

CJP flags casteist, anti-Dalit videos on YouTube targeting CJI Gavai; seeks urgent takedown

CJP Team - October 25, 2025

CJP has filed a complaint highlighting two videos on YouTube carrying casteist and hateful commentary against Chief Justice B.R. Gavai. The organisation has demanded their prompt removal and action against the channel @AjeetBharti for violating the platform’s community guidelines

Rights

“This system breaks the body when it cannot break the spirit” — Ipsa Shatakshi on her jailed husband, journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh

sabrangindia - October 24, 2025

In a heartfelt letter, Ipsa Shatakshi — wife of jailed journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh — wrote of three years of silence, courage, and the slow suffering behind bars, her words paint a portrait of a journalist punished not for crime, but for conscience

India

A century and ten later, innovative & rebellious Ismat Chugtai remains more relevant than ever

taran-khan - October 24, 2025

Today, October 24, is the 110th death anniversary of the bold, innovative, rebellious, and unabashedly realistic Urdu fiction writer Ismat Chughtai! Born on August 21, 1915, she passed away at the age of 76 in Mumbai on October 24, 1991; Sabrangindia recalls her unique contribution with this piece by Taran Khan

Gender and Sexuality

Breaking patriarchal cycles through cycling: Revisiting the Story of Women in Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu

KA Beena - October 24, 2025

Strange are the ways that people find to make life better and battle adversities. Often, every person in every society camouflages multiple layers that...

Minorities

Understanding the Supreme Court’s Interim Intervention in the Waqf Amendments, 2025

A Legal Researcher - October 22, 2025

Be it on the issue of the disproportionately stringent control over the Islamic institution of Waqf (as compared to the administration of Hindu muths or temples), the Supreme Court’s part interim reliefs to the controversial 2025 Waqf Amendment Act, risk a judicial stamp on the state’s sledgehammer approach; a detailed analysis of the SC’s interim order dated September 15, 2025

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