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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
Karnataka CM invokes UAPA against Bengaluru rioters
State Govt may ban PFI, SDPI; Cabinet meeting on August 20, around 52 FIRs filed, 264 arrested, prohibitory orders extended till Aug 18
Delhi Police complicit in February 2020 violence: Polis Project
Report slams police for manufacturing evidence and abusing power to selectively target and frame human rights defenders
The curious case of a secular alcoholic, an Eid banner and hate mongers
The police found that a drunk man placed an Eid banner atop a Hindu saint’s statue without any culpable motive
Virtual collapse of rule of law on the street: Prashant Bhushan
As lawyer Prashant Bhushan, writer Arudhati Roy, senior journalists stood in solidarity, the woman reporter stated it was the Muslim women who made the mob back off
Bengaluru riot: 3 dead, journalists beaten up by cops, vehicles gutted
Naveen, nephew of Congress MLA Srinivas Murthy, allegedly posted communal remarks on Facebook, setting of a night of violence, arson, deaths
Jokes are not funny in Assam, FIR against Prof for sharing one
Anindya Sen, booked under sections 294 (obscene acts or words in public), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts to outrage religious feelings) and more
Christian groups demand justice for Dalit minorities
Petition in SC asking for extension of Scheduled Caste status to Christians and Muslims hailing from historically oppressed castes
August 5, 2020 and thereafter
One wonders if this is the same Hinduism that Gandhi, Ramkrishna, Vivekanand and Tagore preached.
Would such a temple have been acceptable to Ram?
It was not in his character to enter into a dispute
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