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Karnataka Budget 2023-24: CM announces Rs. 4 lakh life & accident insurance policy for gig workers

Tanya Arora -
Another promise delivered, govt. aims to address the persistent demands raise by the union, establish a social security net for gig workers
India

2023 Karnataka assembly elections: what has BJP lost and what has it gained?

Noor Sridhar & Bharath -
It was the combined cards of Communalism, Caste politics, Operation Kamala and Huge Money to woo voters that helped the BJP increase its vote share; much to celebrate but much more needs to be done
Communalism

Secular Hindus must speak out, India is 10 years away from civil disturbance, even civil war: former Home Secretary, Gopal Pillai to Karan Thapar

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One of India’s most highly regarded former Home Secretary says “secular Hindus are uncomfortable, frustrated” adding “and don’t know what should we do in Modi’s India”. Gopal Pillai said if the present treatment of Muslims is not checked and reversed then India could be 10 years away from danger point which he described as “civil disturbance”. At one point in the interview he even briefly accepted India could face “civil war”.
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Pasmanda Muslims need justice, not merely lip service

ABHAY KUMAR -
PM Modi has taken up the cause of ‘Pasmanda’ Muslims in order to woo them to the BJP fold in the run-up to the 2024 elections. Ironically, it was his government too that refused reservation benefits to Pasmanda Muslims and Dalit Christians: infamously the BJP’s official stand under Modi has been that, since “Islam and Christianity were egalitarian religions, did not have untouchability, hence no need to accord SC status to ‘Dalit Muslims’”
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Casteism in the Kerala Muslim Community, DPJC strongly objects

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The Dalit Pasmanda Justice Collective (DPJC) has, in a tweet, strongly objected to a prevalent instance of casteism by the Puthoorpally Muslim Jama-ath" mosque in Changanassery, Kerala; a letter sent by the Secretary of the Masjid Committee directs exclusion of Dalits Muslims from a meeting, stating that “traditionally your ancestors were prohibited from attenting the general meeting”
Rule of Law

Allahabad HC: Appalling conditions of the state jails, indifference shown to the plight of prisoners

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Hearing a PIL, the bench took serious note of the meagre wage offered to inmates, tremendous overcrowding, murders inside jails, grants one last chance to the state to act firmly
Farm and Forest

Supreme Court affirms right of forest inhabitants, prevents it from being limited to recognized communities

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The Supreme Court of India broadened the ambit of who can be granted the right to forest rights, cites that certain communities may not have had the documents to come under governmental categories.
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

SC deems caste-based discrimination in higher education system to be a ‘very sensitive matter’

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In the PIL filed by mothers of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi, bench urges UGC take action, propose steps to facilitate students from the SC/ST backgrounds into the mainstream
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How the Delhi riots case remains stagnant with close to a dozen student leaders incarcerated

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A look back at the trajectory of the Delhi Riots case(s), especially the infamous and belatedly registered FIR 59/2020 reveals a litany of procedural and substantive failures, together resulting in the incarceration without bail, for five long years, ten student activists and human rights defenders and one more politician as “accused”
Farm and Forest

Development or dispossession? 1,188 days of defiance against forced land acquisition in Devanahalli, Karnataka

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As Karnataka’s government inches forward with plans to acquire 1,777 acres of fertile farmland for a Defence and Aerospace Park, farmers from 13 villages in Devanahalli, now backed by workers’ unions, Dalit and Muslim groups, intellectuals and scientists, dig in for the final battle. With promises broken and livelihoods at stake, the countdown to July 15 marks a watershed moment in Karnataka’s agrarian history
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Fr. Stan Swamy SJ: Person, Pilgrim, Prophet

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On the fourth anniversary of his death, July 5, a targeted act of violence called an ‘institutional murder’, Jesuit activist priest, Stan Swamy is remembered in Tamil Nadu, the place of his birth, and Jharkhand the site of his years of toil, for his commitment and integrity; a recall
Communal Organisations

Emergency regime and the role of RSS

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The RSS’ claim that they were the main force of ‘resistance’ during the 15-month period of the Emergency is not borne out by record
Communalism

“Sambhal: Anatomy of an Engineered Crisis”- How a peaceful Muslim-majority town was turned into a site of manufactured communal conflict

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Released six months after the violence, this fact-finding report of the APCR exposes how state agencies, institutions, and communal actors colluded to construct a crisis in Sambhal through illegal mosque surveys, police firing, mass detentions, and myth-driven temple claims; turning religious faith into a weapon and justice into a spectacle
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