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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

Ban Private Armies of Gau Rakshaks by Central Order: Sitaram Yechury

Lynchings of Muslims and beatings of Dalits are happening...

Cultural Cimate under Seige in India, Intimidation & Violence the Tools: Githa Hariharan

Laetitia Zecchini in Conversation with Githa HariharanGitha Hariharan   LZ: You’ve...

Dalits Claim Back ‘Promised Land’ under Mevani’s Leadership: Gujarat

      As Dalits Plant Flag of Self-Respect under Mevani...

Petition Against Maharashtra’s Cow Vigilantes: Bombay High Court

Petition Against Maharashtra’s Cow Vigilantes: Bombay High Court Shadab Patel,...

As India Descends Into Darkness Let’s Spend An Hour For Communal Harmony

What happened in Baduria and Basirhat of West Bengal...

Appropriation or Assimilation: Dalits can now be Naga Sadhus

The Sangh Parivar has denied that the decision by...

Save Hinduism from the RSS-BJP: Kanhaiya Kumar

Former JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar spoke at...

Azadi Koonch Begins in Gujarat

Thousands gather from across the country to demand rights...

Indian Fascism: Radicalization or Entropy? The Choice Is Ours!

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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

Six Years Behind Bars, Still No Trial: Umar Khalid’s long wait for justice

Six years after his arrest, Umar Khalid remains in custody without trial, while successive bail pleas continue to be contested

Deaths, Denials and Delayed Action: The Balaghat crisis

From malnutrition and disease to protests and court intervention, Balaghat’s Adivasi villages reveal a crisis that the administration appears to have recognised only after the deaths became impossible to ignore  

Why Swatantra Bhardwaj is a pawn in our politics

As a fellow Bihari and a native of Darbhanga, my heart goes out to the middle class parents who pawn jewellery and mortgage ancestral property to send their ladlas and ladlis to a big city…