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Did Indian Democracy fail Father Stan Swamy?
Five years after Father Stan Swamy's death, his life continues to ask difficult questions of India's democracy.Speaking at a memorial meeting in Bandra, Mumbai, Teesta Setalvad reflects on the...
If someone is deliberately coming to die, how can he remain alive: Yogi Adityanath
In a speech at the UP State Assembly, the UP CM denied that any anti-CAA protestor had died due to police firing
8 Christians falsely accused of forced conversion acquitted in MP
They had been falsely accused of converting 60 children who they were escorting to a Bible Camp
Sisterhood unites to fight oppression: Forest workers meet Shaheen Bagh protesters
Dalit and Adivasi forest workers express solidarity with anti-CAA activists as even they rarely have 70-year-old documents to stake claim to forest land.
Namo’s India a parody of Zia’s oppressive regime in Pakistan?
Zia's theological reforms created conditions of 'mob rule'. Summative justice at the local level reflected the lack of rule of law as a principle. Religion and sectarian majoritarianism were invoked to suppress dissent and to dispense with democracy. Is this where India is headed today?
Adivasis ousted from both home & land rights through a draconian law: Gujarat
In the guise of tourism, the new Statue of Unity Act not only illegally converts a forested area over which the local tribal population has constitutionally guaranteed rights into an ‘urban’ area in which they will need government permission to do anything but legalizes evictions
Dalit groups call for Bharat Bandh post SC order on reservations
In a February 7 order, the SC said that courts cannot give directions compelling states to reserve jobs for SC / STs
Illegal Arrest of a penniless Adivasi: MP HC Court penalises govt officials, orders reparation
The Court used the Jurisprudential concept of ‘Constitutional Tort’, and said that since the State has arrogantly deprived an innocent person of his Liberty, the aggrieved person must be compensated for the loss of it’ Husan, an Adivasi has been granted Rs 5,00,000 as compensation for being deprived of his personal liberty.
Are Adivasis Hindus?
A separate column for Adivasis (Aboriginis) must be included in the forthcoming Census 2020 as it was in 1951
SC: Amendment to SC/ST Act constitutionally valid
These amendments were enacted to reverse the SC judgment of 2018 which had diluted provisions of the Act
Manufacturing Hate and Violence: Anurag Thakur’s ‘Shoot the Traitors’
Social organisations and political parties need to cultivate Indian fraternity again.
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