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Gender and Sexuality

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

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No lungis or nighties outdoors: Greater Noida society dress code for residents, withdrawn later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

Women journalists who were attacked prevented from reporting, protest attacks

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Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, on-ground reporting by women journalists, invites threats and abuse from the authorities; is it a coincidence that all three states are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?
Media

Reporter attacked on DU Campus, DUJ condemns assault

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The body of journalists has condemned the attack on a female reporter as also the fact that the police remained ‘mute spectators’
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger

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The author, a student in Bengaluru, asks why Dalit suffering is more readily received than Dalit anger in literature, cinema and public life. Is it because sorrow allows readers and viewers to remain sympathetic observers, while anger and refusal can challenge that comfortable distance?
Environment

Prioritise ecological security of country over “false narrative” of “highway development”: CCG to Govt & Courts

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Former bureaucrats protest the “steady lowering of statutory safeguards for protecting India’s Environment and Forests” in an open letter to the government; both government and the judiciary need to prioritise the ecological security of our country and the health and life of its citizens over the false narrative of more roads, more buildings, more townships, more mines, more industries, more destruction of the natural world that is currently seen as progress.
Communalism

Politics through a forced imposition of food habits

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