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Days of Demands, Hours of Protest: Swatantra Bhardwaj finally detained in assault case

Delhi Police detain the influencer hours after CJP, Nishu Azad, Congress representatives and opposition MPs press for his arrest at Parliament Street; the case began at a CJP and wider student protest at Jantar Mantar

Is the VHP above the law in this new age of impunity?

VHP leader Sharan Pumpwell publicly states that the murder of Fazil was committed by their Hindutva activists

Bajrang Dal barges into a birthday celebration, thrashes Muslim friends, hands them over to police

The incident took place on January 21 when the woman was celebrating her birthday in an apartment.

Goa: ABVP disrupts classes in St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa

The ABVP forced their way into the college raising demands for forming students council and disrupted classes

K’taka: Bajrang Dal allegedly demonstrated outside a mosque

They were apparently protesting the arrest of one of its members, Nitesh, in connection with harassing a minor Muslim girl in Karnataka’s Chikkamagaluru

Mohan Bhagwat: Distorted History-Sectarian Agenda

In a series of lectures in Vigyan Bhavan in...

Real Impact, Real Change: CJP’s year of monitoring violations: a review

Approaching several authorities to curtail hate speech and demand action against those guilty of targeted violence, CJP has had an action-packed year, and achieved tangible results

ABVP’s strong arm tactics have received a soft touch from law enforcement & the Indian state: 2014-2022

As we near the end of 2022, we see how over the past year especially, as before, the immunity enjoyed by the ABVP continues continuing a pattern set in 2014 and fine-tuned in 2016

What is the Ram Temple Really about?

Teesta Setalvad presents a ready reckoner on what the Ram Temple movement really is

VHP leader promises free ‘licenses’ swords, knives and sticks after ‘training’

Swords and blades over nine inches in length and which are not kitchen appliances require a licence under the Arms Act.

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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’

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

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?

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

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.

Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces

The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.

After some dithering, Odisha government rejects premature release of Graham Staines murder convict Dara Singh

Odisha Chief Minister, Mohan Charan Majhi, had in 2022, when he was a BJP legislator supported demands for Dara Singh’s early release, a demand vocalised by Sudarshan TV’s editor, Suresh Chavhanke