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When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat

From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands

Has Gauri Lankesh, in her Martyrdom propelled India to Rethink and Rebuild democracy?

Gauri Lankesh, State, and Civil Society   To state the obvious...

Suu Kyi: Myanmar does not fear ‘international scrutiny’ over Rohingya crisis

She condemned “human rights violations, unlawful violence” in Rakhine...

Rohingya crisis: this is what genocide looks like

  The world is witnessing a state-orchestrated humanitarian catastrophe on...

As 6 In Pehlu Khan Murder Freed, 2017 Is Prime Year For Cow-Related Hate Crime

As Rajasthan police closed investigations against six suspects arrested...

4,000 Children in UP Madrassa Threatened with ‘Rat poison’: TOI

The Times of India Reports that some unidentified men allegedly...

 Claimants of Supernatural Powers in Rural India

The well-known rationalist, Narendra Nayak writes about his experience of debunking...

When Our caravan of Love defied the Mob & Paid Tributes to Pehlu Khan: Harsh Mander

Harsh Mander: When our caravan of love defied threats...

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When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat

From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands

Maharashtra SIR: 2.08 crore (20.8 million) voter forms “uncollected” hence may not be listed in August 24 draft electoral roll

More than 1 in 5 voter enumeration forms have remained “uncollected” on the final day of Maharashtra’s SIR exercise, with urban districts accounting for a large share of those  bureaucratically “excluded”-- nearly 95 lakh forms were uncollected in Thane, Mumbai and Pune, though voters left out of the draft will get a month to seek inclusion or correction

Jharkand government accused of continued communal lynchings by fact-finding team

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Sumit Sarkar: Engaged scholarship, ways of historical thinking, an enduring legacy

Scholar of modern India with a path breaking approach to research and  his discipline, historian Sumit Sarkar transformed how modern Indian history was understood, bringing ordinary people and their experiences to the centre of historical scholarship

When Family Becomes Custody: Allahabad HC holds adult women’s faith, residence and liberty cannot be placed under parental control

Holding that an alleged unlawful conversion cannot become a licence for private confinement, the Court separates the legality of religious conversion from the legality of detention—and holds the father and Uttar Pradesh State jointly liable for ₹25 lakh in constitutional compensation