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Another cow lynching in Nashik, one dead

The police have arrested 10 persons in this matter and the meat found in the car has been sent for forensics testing. They were beaten on suspicion of carrying beef.

11 arrests in Nashik for killing man, brutally assaulting another for ‘transporting beef’

Police officers said members of a cow vigilante group assaulted the two men with iron rods and wooden sticks near Igatpuri.

The complex design of propaganda & narrative manipulation: India

How right-wing propaganda has managed to infiltrate not only the news media, but also local social media groups. Understanding its deeply-entrenched nature and focusing reportage on communities will help us combat it.

How a battle is being waged within India’s forests, for rights over land and resources

A real life battle is on in those lands over which forest dwellers and Adivasis ought to have control but where state and corporate interests intrude

How RSS betrayed the struggle against the Emergency, from its archives

Today, June 25, the 48th anniversary of the Emergency, the author looks deep into the authoritarian veins of the organization and exposes how, despite this, some cadres benefit from a significant state monthly pension for being in jail less than two months

What lies ahead for ‘Eddelu Karnataka’? : Part 4

Eddelu KarnatakaThe author, a senior activist explores, in the last of a four-part series, that the path ahead for Eddelu Karnataka is a challenge....

Long way to go before promises are kept to India’s LGBTQIA+ communities

The legal win for decriminalising homosexuality in India is just the beginning of the ongoing struggle for LGBTQIA+ rights.

Savarkar to Tilak to Shastri: 50 new life stories for UP students

A state government spokesperson on Friday said that introducing these biographies is being done “to introduce students of the state to the civilisation and culture of the country, following the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath”.

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