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Statewide Attacks: A chilling chronicle of caste-based attacks across the country

sabrangindia - April 16, 2025

Across Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh, a disturbing pattern of caste-based atrocities is emerging, with Dalit students facing targeted violence and discrimination, alongside horrifying attacks on women and communities, highlighting a systemic failure to protect marginalised lives and ensure justice

Gender and Sexuality

When Courts Fail Survivors: How patriarchy shapes justice in sexual offence against women cases

sabrangindia - April 15, 2025

The Supreme Court critiques multiple High Court judgments for perpetuating misogynistic notions and trivialising sexual violence and child trafficking through legally flawed and insensitive reasoning

Communalism

Fresh Unrest in Bengal: Violent clashes erupt over Waqf (Amendment) Act in South 24 Parganas

sabrangindia - April 15, 2025

ISF supporters clash with police enroute to protest; vehicles torched, multiple injured, and over 200 arrested in earlier Murshidabad violence amid rising communal tensions.

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Caste Shadow on Ambedkar Jayanti: From campus censorship to temple exclusion

sabrangindia - April 15, 2025

As India marked Ambedkar's birth anniversary, three incidents—from Pune to MP to Udaipur—revealed the deep fault lines of caste discrimination and institutional bias

History

106th Anniversary of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Documents on Jallianwala Bagh massacre and people’s resistance buried at the National Archives

Shamsul Islam - April 15, 2025

Revolutionary Udham Singh's choice of his alias, name of Mohammad Singh Azad was not a coincidence -- he chose it to underline the cardinal fact that India could be liberated only by a collective and united effort of all Indians

History

Bloodbath on Baisakhi: The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, April 13, 1919

teesta-setalvad - April 15, 2025

Ninety Seven Years Ago, one of the bloodiest actions of British Rule was the calculated massacre of close to 2,000 innocent Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims at the Jallianwala Bagh. The firing was ordered by an officer of the British colonial power, General Dyer. While the official figure for lives lost was 1,526 the actual figure was reportedly much higher

India

Confronting the Neo-fascist Assault on Federalism

C Saratchand - April 15, 2025

The Supreme Court’s verdict in TN Governor’s case highlighted the weaponization of the Governor’s office for partisan politics.

Hate Speech

Mumbai Police file FIR against Ram Navami rally organisers over hate speech, target journalist Kunal Purohit’s videos separately

sabrangindia - April 14, 2025

As the police investigate inflammatory slogans at a public rally, independent journalist Kunal Purohit resists efforts to remove his videos, raising concerns over the suppression of journalism and the fight against hate speech

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Complaint details how “vote jihad” and “land jihad” narratives used during the Model Code of Conduct period violate electoral law, constitutional guarantees, and democratic norms

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