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Every Wave Has a Memory: Women, Waters and the Promise of November 5
When the women of the sea rise, the tides will rise with them to recognise and honour the daughters of the oceans. On November 5 this year, fisherwomen across...
Transgender rights in India: stalled progress and a frustrated community
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The discord between the judiciary, legislature, and executive and its effect on the community
Sabarimala age restriction case: Kerala High Court awaits Supreme Court decision
Girl challenged age-based restriction on women entering Sabarimala temple
Minor Dalit raped repeatedly, crime discovered when she was visibly pregnant
UP’s Bhadohi witnessed a harrowing incident of repeated rape against a minor Dalit child. While the accused has been arrested and charged with rape and other offences, this is the latest in fast increasing gender crimes against Dalit women. NCRB figures point to a staggering ten such rapes every day against Dalit women and girls with a 45 percent spiral in such crimes between 2015 and 2020.
Love vs Law: Allahabad HC verdict offers hope, but inconsistencies persist
High court protects one couple, but conflicting rulings highlight ongoing struggle for interfaith couples.
Against the tide: The women who fought and won in the 18th Lok Sabha against the ruling regime
From retention of seats by Mahua Moitra, Supriya Sule to the emergence of younger women, such as Iqra Hasan and Saroj, the 18th Lok Sabha saw many women succeeding
Allahabad and Madhya Pradesh High Courts deliver two contradictory judgments on interfaith marriage without conversion under Special Marriage Act (SMA)
While Allahabad HC bench of Justice Jyotsna Sharma said interfaith couples not intending to convert their religion can marry under SMA, a similar plea for police protection was rejected by Madhya Pradesh HC citing Muslim personal law
Rights-based approach to abortion: The need for legislative reforms
Inconsistent court rulings leave women facing a confusing and unfair legal battle for safe abortion in India.
Absconding Prajwal Revanna arrested from Bengaluru airport in early hours on May 31, SIT to seek potency test
The SIT has also issued notice to Prajwal’s mother to probe her role in the case; Revanna had left for Germany on April 26, had an arrest warrant and Interpol ‘Blue Collar Notice’ to his name
#HassanChalo: Thousands protest demanding justice for the victims of Prajwal Revanna in Karnataka
A huge rally took place in Hassan, Karnataka demanding ‘no bail, only jail’ for the previously absconding MP Prajwal Revanna, with civil society organisations from across the state rallying for justice and accountability to the victims.
Dalit woman dies of suspicious circumstances after brother, uncle beaten to death
The Dalit woman, whose brother was reportedly killed by goons who had reportedly asked her to withdraw her complaint of sexual harassment, reportedly died by falling of the ambulance which was carrying her uncle’s dead body.
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Ritwik Ghatak transcended realms unexplored to reinvent art of Indian revolutionary film making
One hundred years of Ritwik Ghatak on November 4 (November 4, 1925-February 6, 1976), revolutionary filmmaker, visionary artist, and committed Marxist. His work continues to influences profoundly, unsettling and inspiring in equal measure
India
The Silencing of Dissent: Bar Council’s suspension of Advocate Asim Sarode is a stark case of selective justice
While Pune-based lawyer Asim Sarode is punished for critiquing judicial complacency and political overreach, lawyers who have delivered actual hate speeches walk free. The Bar Council’s action marks a chilling moment for freedom of speech in the legal profession
Minorities
Guarding culture or policing faith? Chhattisgarh High Court’s ‘social menace’ observation and the future of Article 25
While affirming Gram Sabha authority under the PESA Act to prevent “forced conversions,” the Chhattisgarh High Court’s ruling raises deeper concerns about the limits of religious liberty, evidentiary reasoning, and constitutional secularism in India’s tribal heartland
Environment
Stop destruction of Himalayas, potential desertification of Gangetic plain, compensate Himalayan states for climate control, carbon capture etc.: Former Civil Servants
Can the country afford the destruction of the Himalayas and do our Himalayan states need help? North India and its Gangetic plain would not survive without the forests, the glaciers and rivers that originate from Himachal, Kashmir and Uttarakhand, and would soon become a desert: these rivers sustain a population of almost 400 million people. It is time that the 16th Finance Commission, follows what was begun in the 12th Finance Commission, and disburses a Green Bonus commensurate to steps taken for ecology and sustainability
India
‘Shankar Guha Niyogi: A Politics in red and green is testament to the path breaking experiments of a labour movement with a strong ecological component
The Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (CMM) with its all-encompassing vision that moved beyond a pure economist outlook and attempted to relate to national issues like war and militarism as also communalism
History
How Muslims treated non-Muslims in early Islam
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