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

Dr. Sylvia Karpagam - June 16, 2023

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 - June 15, 2023

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

sabrangindia - June 15, 2023

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

sabrangindia - June 15, 2023

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

sabrangindia - June 15, 2023

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

Communalism

Paramount duty of the State to ensure that law and order is maintained in all parts: Uttarakhand HC

sabrang - June 15, 2023

Mahapanchayat in Purola: necessary steps to fulfil this Constitutional obligation to be taken, refrain from indulging in debates

Communalism

CJP complains against Suresh Chavhanke for Sangamner hate speech

CJP Team - June 15, 2023

Chavhanke has made several baseless claims and attempted to provoke Muslim women to marry Hindu men; the complaint has been sent to SP Ahmednagar and Police Inspector

Communalism

Surat: Kajal Hindustani again indulges in hate speech, despite 3 FIRs

sabrangindia - June 15, 2023

Kajal has three FIRs against her, two in Maharashtra and one in Gir Somnath, Gujarat. She was even arrested in Gujarat and then granted bail soon after in April

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