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Alarming Odisha arrests, ‘illegal’ detentions ahead of Vedanta bauxite public hearing

More than 80 lawyers, legal academics and researchers have written to the Governor of Odisha raising concerns about the “alarming arrests and illegal detentions”...

Is There a Hidden Narrative Behind Slurs Hurled in Parliament?

BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri’s outburst in the Lok Sabha empowers neither women nor the backward classes.

Maharashtra tops states in anti-Muslim hate speech, 80 % of hate in BJP ruled states: Hindutva Watch

A disturbingly high level of incidents all over the country but most especially in BJP-ruled states make lives of Indian minorities both fragile and vulnerable

Understanding the nuances of the Goa ‘conversion’ and persecution debate

From colonisation, persecution, forced conversion, and the Inquisition, this article from a chapter in a forthcoming book by the authors explores the dynamics of Goa’s early colonial population dispersion  

India ‘lacks’ evidence of contraception use, has one of highest adolescent pregnancies

The international community has been celebrating World Contraception Day on September 26 every year for the past 15 years. On this day, a number...

Food Price Spike: How Farmers’ Protest Saved the Country

If the infamous three laws hadn’t been withdrawn, procurement would have been privatised and the government would have had no means of combating inflation.

Far right, Hindutva ideology sparks concerns: tridents and pledges deepen communal divides in India’s Heartland

Tridents as Symbols: Unmasking the Ideological Shift in Rajasthan's Communal Landscape."

No Primetime Segment as anti-Muslim slurs rocked parliament last Thursday

Anti-Muslim slurs against MP in parliament do not make the cut for commercial new media channels (“mainstream media”) even as social media was ablaze with outrage last Friday

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A Conspiracy of Hate: The Aligarh temple graffiti incident

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