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The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

The Fascist Attack at AMU

Recent unrest broke out at Aligarh Muslim University is...

Dalit Imagination: An Antidote to Communal Nationalism

Contemporary India is witnessing the appropriation by the Hindu...

Is Ambedkar still an Untouchable in India?

On 16th May 2015, Sagar Shejwal, a young nursing...

Dalits protest discrimination, over 300 convert to Buddhism in Gujarat

More than 300 Dalits, including four men who were...

NHRC finds Untouchability and Caste Based Atrocities still rampant in Gujarat

A bench of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), that was...

A Dalit Family’s Struggle Shows How India’s Justice System Is Failing Its Lowest Castes

Navi Mumbai: Past the newly constructed Eastern Freeway and...

The Rise & Rise of Inhuman Hate Politics

Modi’s biggest contribution to India is teaching it to...

Dalit Bridegrooms On Horses Challenge India’s Caste Status Quo

Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh, and Bhilwara district, Rajasthan: As...

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Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai

Students who marched from Nashik are denied Azad Maidan protest, prevented from leaving Tilak Bhavan and forcefully transported out of the city

Scrap SIR, Restore Electoral Integrity: A national call to defend the right to vote

Public assembly demands the scrapping of SIR, accountability of the Election Commission and urgent safeguards against wrongful exclusion from electoral rolls

Why Majoritarianism today is the single most acute threat to democracy

Majoritarianism that plagues India and many other democracies is the perversion of Dr. Ambedkar’s idea of democracy. While Dr. Ambedkar’s definition of democracy lays stress on effective and proportionate representation and safeguarding minority rights, majoritarianism is the dominance of a particular religious community, caste group, or racial group over the rest of the population.

From Nashik to Mumbai: Adivasi students’ protest meets police detentions

Weeks of agitation over tribal hostels and schools culminate in alleged detention of protesters ahead of planned Azad Maidan march

‘Free the Temple’, ‘Protect the Faith’, ‘Take Up Weapons’: How September’s festivals became stages for anti-Muslim hate

From contested places of worship to demographic fearmongering, a series of speeches used Hindu religious identity to construct Muslims as an existential threat and recast exclusion as religious defence

Karnataka: SIR Interrogated

A report, The SIR Investigation Report—A Narrative of Betrayal and Tears was released by the Anti-SIR Alliance and the Citizens’ Vote Protection Committee today; the report documents the (mal) implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka

‘Solidarity Is Not a Crime’: Mumbai activists protest alleged police harassment over Palestine event

Indian People in Solidarity with Palestine members gather at Azad Maidan after police search activist Harshada’s home in connection with a kite-flying programme for Palestinian children

The West as Enigma: Why Muslims Must Understand the Occident on Its Own Terms

The ideas of Shariati, Mawdudi, Qutb, and Nadwi provide important critiques of Western materialism, imperialism, and secularism, but remain largely reactive in their approach.