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Devotees of Sarkara Devi temple want ‘RSS men’ to leave temple alone, they’re ‘causing agony, fighting with sticks’: Kerala

A writ petition in Kerala High Court alleges men claiming to be RSS members have been illegally encroaching on premises of Sarkara Devi temple in Kerala's Chirayinkeezhu, leading to 'loss of calm atmosphere'.

IMSD supports a religion-neutral, gender-just UCC

Ironically, in secular India the ulema continue to cling to medieval, patriarchal notions of gender relations in the name of Islam.

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....

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