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State govt clamps down on peoples’ protests in the Konkan: Maharashtra

Prajakta Joshi -
A media blackout, a ban on television crew, externment notices and a massive police force – the Maharashtra government has unleashed all these and more, in its arsenal to break the staunch resistance of villagers to a refinery project in the Konkan . Though shaken by the killing of journalist Shashikant Warishe in February this year, the villagers are steadfast.
Gender and Sexuality

Transgender Woman is a “Bride” under Hindu Marriage Act: 2019 Judgement, Madras HC

A Legal Researcher -
As marriage equality hearings in the Supreme Court of India reveal a sharp rightward and patriarchial shift in the Indian state, during ongoing debates on the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community, a Madras HC judgement from 2019 assumes significance. The reason is that the court in this case read the word ‘bride’ in the Hindu marriage Act, 1955 to include a transgender woman
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

#NoToBarsuRefinery: Protestors manhandled and arrested, activist re-arrested after attaining bail

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Despite the government's use of restrictive measures, protesters are still refusing to give up and are fighting to safeguard their livelihood.
Communalism

Hate speech spirals to a 7-day high, Muslims & Christians the target

Tanya Arora -
Assam, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Uttarakhand are overrun with anti-Muslim (and anti-Christian) vitriol, with speakers escaping prosecution
Communalism

Mira Road police file suo moto FIR against hate monger Kajal Hindustani; no arrest yet

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This FIR is pertaining to a speech that had caused furore among the locals and other citizens, making Kajal a notorious hate offender
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Dalit History Month: A compilation of must read books about Dalit oppression, marginalisation and their resistance

CJP Team -
A curated list of some of the best books to understand the struggles and hardships faced by the Dalit community since time immemorial, and their revolutions that shaped the history of India
Communalism

Hindutva’s growing intolerance over gathering for Eid in society

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Incidents like booking Muslims for offering namaaz on the road, school authorities booked for celebrating Eid have come to the fore.
Rule of Law

Operation Samadhan-Prahar & the Changing Nature of Indian State

Syed Ali Mujtaba -
Operation Samadhan-Prahar is a relatively new initiative of the union government of India, propagated as an effort to “combat Maoist insurgency in the tribal...
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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’
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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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