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After NEET protests ended, the battle moved online: Women protesters face threats, doxing and criminalisation
From demands for accountability over a paper leak to attacks on protesters’ identities, the aftermath of the movement raises questions about dissent, gendered harassment and the State’s response to democratic protest
Book on Delhi’s communal riots to be printed now with right-wing support
Controversial book on the riots gets new publishers, right wing IT teams attack Bloomsbury India for refusing to print one-sided story
Hate content on social media: Corporate and individual responsibility
Does the WSJ expose on FB’s alleged tacit support of the regime’s hate machinery also open doors to a deeper understanding of what led to the Bengaluru riots?
Bloomsbury India withdraws publication of one sided book on Delhi Riots, after outrage
The book claims to tell the ‘Untold Story’, just 6 months after the communal violence, even though matter is subjudice
HJS dubs Narendra Dabholkar ‘Urban Naxal’
Is this a nefarious ploy by right-wing extremists to delegitimise the work of the slain anti-superstition activist, and other rationalists and dissenters?
U’khand HC directs state to look into forest rights claims of Van Gujjars
The court has directed the state to form a committee and come up with a proposal detailing its scope of work by September 28
Women auto-rickshaw drivers struggle to make ends meet during post-lockdown period
Auto-drivers hailed as warriors during the lockdown period continue to suffer from a dearth of adequate wages, lack of family support
Homogenisation critical to rise of majoritarian nationalism: Justice Gautam Patel
In the Asiatic Society’s 27th Smt. Bansari Sheth Memorial Lecture, the Bombay High Court judge explains modern day nationalism
To ban or not to ban: K’taka cabinet yet to decide SDPI-PFI fate
Cabinet says, they still do not have concrete evidence or a police report on the case
B’luru riot: Govt to ask HC to appoint claims commissioners to assess damages to property
The state is following in the footsteps of the UP govt which had passed an ordinance to recover damages after violence that erupted during anti-CAA protests
U’khand HC directs state gov’t to form committee to look into Van Gujjar claims
The court has asked the government to form a High Level Committee within 6 weeks
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