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Unveiling the Harsh Truth of Child Marriage in India

The article below explores the untenability of the custom and the urgent need for institutional attention and reform

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

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

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

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

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

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”.

Pasmanda Muslims need justice, not merely lip service

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’”

Casteism in the Kerala Muslim Community, DPJC strongly objects

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”

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

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

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

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.

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