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Gender and Sexuality

Man allowed to change his name in service register after gender affirmation surgery: Rajasthan HC

A Legal Researcher -
The issue of recognition of transgenders in government and policy making is mired in bureaucracy and an obstructionist attitude
India

Manipur Is Burning Because of BJP’s Divisive Politics: Civil Society Groups

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"Both the central and the state government are weaponising the constitutional provisions to destroy concepts of democratic dialogue, federalism and safeguarding of human rights.”
Freedom

No lungis or nighties outdoors: Greater Noida society dress code for residents, withdrawn later

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The controversial dress code was issued via a notice by the residents' body of Himsagar Apartments on June 10 following a complaint about 'objectionable dressing' by some residents
Education

Key challenge for Siddaramiah’s Congress Govt: review NEP, its “health & wellbeing” policy

Dr. Sylvia Karpagam -
The union government’s controversial NEP, adopted by the erstwhile BJP-led Karnataka government institutionalises discrimination and dogma in education, it’s important to document concerns around it before it becomes a template for other states. Although the stated objective of the paper is to illustrate the importance of health, it embroils itself in irrational and unscientific propaganda that can be disastrous within an educational space.  
Gender and Sexuality

Same-sex marriage an assertion of love, marriage & inclusivity

Sakshi Sharda -
This piece aims to explicate for the reader the juridical and political position of the institution of marriage. It further locates within these legal and political trends the case for same-sex marriage. The write-up dwells on the various instances where the State has intervened in the institution of marriage and how these interventions, accompanied by the laws and jurisprudence, lay the foundation for the current 18 petitions in the Supreme Court. This short article will also go on to explicate the understanding of same-sex marriage following the expansion of the Special Marriage Act of 1954.
India

K’taka to repeal BJP’s controversial anti-conversion law; to remove Hedgewar from textbooks

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Lessons on KB Hedgewar and Savarkar to be removed from textbooks, Poem on Ambedkar re-inserted
Media

Biden administration should press Indian Prime Minister on media freedom during his visit: CPJ

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An online discussion just before he Prime Minister’s visit to the United States, June 14, brings live the crucial issue of press freedom in India; India ranked 11th on CPJ’s 2022 impunity index, with unsolved cases of at least 20 journalists killed in retaliation for their work from September 1, 2012, to August 31, 2022.
Secularism

‘Insaniyat’: brave Hindu landlord defends Muslim shop owners and workers, show of harmony in the midst of division

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A violent mob of far-right members was vandalizing Muslim-owned shops in Uttarakhand town
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Freedom

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
India

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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