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BJP will put an end to Muslim reservations, it’s unconstitutional: Amit Shah, Telangana

sabrangindia - April 25, 2023

Speaking at a public meeting in the state, union Home Minister, Amit Shah attacks the state sanctioned quotas for Muslims as unconstitutional, promises to undue these as the BJP govt has done pre elections in Karnataka

Communalism

BJP govt in Karnataka drops 182 cases of hate crimes in 4 years: Report

Sanchita Kadam - April 25, 2023

These withdrawals were ordered during the tenure of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Activist actively involved in protesting against the Barsu-Solgaon refinery project detained by police

Tanya Arora - April 25, 2023

Activists in the area have been facing many legal road blocks, intimidation tactics exercised against protesters, meanwhile support for the refinery is creating havoc. Section 144 CrPC imposed.

Communalism

Pakistani Hindu girl apologises for cricketer’s “Jai Shree Ram” post on Eid

sabrangindia - April 25, 2023

A former Pakistani Hindu cricketer had posted “Jai Shree Ram” on an Eid poster

Religion

Man lynched for accidentally breaking two fingers of idol in Hindu temple

sabrangindia - April 25, 2023

The man was tied to a tree and thrashed with sticks, rods and an axe

Children

Parenting in an Age of Unreason

Parthanil Roy - April 25, 2023

There was a time when India’s history and social science official texts though burdened with a slew of dates and events in a top down linear narrative nevertheless celebrated the reality of the evolution of a rich and diverse civilizational ethos. Today, the corrosive power of exclusion and hate runs deep: eleven days ago, April 14, reports of a deeply-disturbing incident caused concern on social media but was met with a deafening silence by India’s political class: an 11-year-old boy was allegedly thrashed and stripped simply to pressurise him into “chanting religious slogans” in Madhya Pradesh's Indore. That is how deep of hate flows now in India’s veins

Rule of Law

Gauhati HC raps Assam govt over miserable condition of shelter homes where people of one community are housed

sabrangindia - April 24, 2023

The court was told by the amicus curiae that the homes were ‘worse than cowsheds’ and the court highlighted that the shelters were merely made of tarpaulin

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

UP: Five days after attack on father of Dalit gang rape survivor, two infants and survivor set on fire at home by gang-rape suspects

sabrangindia - April 24, 2023

The authorities' reluctance to include appropriate provisions under the SC/ST (PoA) Act and abiding by provisions for providing police protection to fame worsens situation of Dalit women in India

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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?

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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.

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