Hate & Harmony

Thirty years on, justice remains elusive for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana

A chapter in a major 30-year review of the PoA Act argues that institutional failures, rather than legislative gaps, remain the biggest obstacle to justice

Weaponsing religious processions, demolishing minority homes, a nadir in breakdown of rule of law: Report

“Routes of Wrath: Weaponsiing Religious Processions (Communal Violence during Ram Navmi-april 2022) analyses the countrywide Ram Navmi-Hanuman Jayanti processions of April May 2022

Family of Momeen, arrested for posting whatsapp status for Aurangzeb, forced to leave village

Till now, three complaints have been filed by people with far-right ideologies and belonging to Hindtuva groups

Gujarat: Kajal Hindusthani arrested, sent to judicial custody, booked for delivering anti-Muslim hate speech

Hindusthani has been criss-crossing the country delivering doses of hate from Maharashtra to New Delhi; delivers speech asking Hindus to take up arms in New Delhi even after being first “booked” in Gujarat

File FIR against Head Counsellor, Ms Hima Anaredy under Atrocities Act: NCST to IIT Mumbai

The NCST pulls up IIT-Bombay for its insensitivity, absence of adequate mechanisms or response and also directs implementation of measures to tackle lack of accountability towards Dalit students

Beaten on suspicion of car theft in Etawah, UP, Muslim youth Amjad joins a list of such victims

Over the past three years, incidents of these kinds have surfaced and repeated in several parts of the state with impunity

Saffron Bigotry threatens Muslim existence in India

Brazen mobilizations by hate driven outfits, unchecked by law enforcement and the state have generated fear in the Muslim community, a fear that has turned inwards into more restrictions for Muslim women

Adivasi and other farmers under the AIKS bring Maharashtra govt to its feet

The sheer tenacity and resolve of the farmers who marched at short notice was a response to the acute crisis in falling onion prices; demands conceded are extensive from electricity and housing to actualising the recognition of rights under The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (FRA, 2006)

New Year brings little cheer, Chavhanke’s hate diatribe in Maharashtra continues

Speaking at Nashik on March 22, he went on ceaselessly spreading disinformation about both Muslims and Christians

Actor Chetan’s Second Arrest: First as Warning, Second as Strategy?

UPDATE March 24, 2023: Chetan Kumar gets a bailActor and...

Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker

It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.

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Thirty years on, justice remains elusive for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana

A chapter in a major 30-year review of the PoA Act argues that institutional failures, rather than legislative gaps, remain the biggest obstacle to justice

The telegram NEET case and the expansion of platform-level censorship in India

The Court's judgment marks a significant shift in Indian digital rights jurisprudence by accepting that the very design and architecture of a platform may justify extraordinary restrictions affecting millions of lawful users

From a daughter to her mother Indiramma, Kavitha Lankesh writes, “I will miss you. Everyday.”

By the morning of Monday, June 15, 2026, Indira Lankesh (Indiramma as we all knew her), mother of Kavitha and Gauri Lankesh, wife and partner of Parvathi Lankesh and grandmother to her beloved Esha, left peacefully in her sleep. She was 83 years old. Today, on the afternoon of Saturday June 20, about 1/1.30 p.m. her beautiful and loyal daughter, Kavitha Lankesh wrote this tribute to her on Meta/Facebook.

A test for the Forest Rights Act in Assam

Eviction notices issued to four Taungya villages in Nagaon district have reignited questions about historical injustice, forest governance and the state's obligation to recognise forest rights before displacement

Delhi: Between Protection & Prayer: Stories of revered sites now under the protection of ASI

In Delhi, some monuments are not just remnants of the past. They continue to function as places of prayer, remain part of neighbourhood life, and exist within an ongoing struggle over who owns them, who maintains them, and who decides how they may be used. The authors examine the layered complexities involved

Three decades after the PoA Act, justice remains elusive

A comprehensive 30-year review of the SC/ST Atrocities Act reveals a persistent gap between the law's transformative promise and the lived realities of Dalits and Adivasis confronting violence, discrimination, and impunity

The Supreme Court in 2025: Deference, technicality and the retreat from rights

From citizenship and reservation to encounter accountability, privacy, environmental protection and minority rights, the Court's most contentious judgments of 2025 reveal an increasing preference for institutional deference and procedural compliance over substantive constitutional justice