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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...
Guru Ravidas Jayanti- The dream of Be-Gham-Pura
On the occasion of Guru Ravidas Jayanti on February 9, 2020, we remember the patron saint of the Dalit community, the man who inspired love, grace, Bhakti, and revolution.
Kashmiri youth beaten brutally, succumbs to injuries in Rajasthan
Was repeatedly hit on the head, eye witness friend also threatened with dire consequences
RSS: Hindu base waned in Census 2011 because tribals registered as ‘other religion’
The RSS chief met Sangh volunteers in MP and Chhattisgarh to get to educate tribals about CAA
Will CAA ensure land ‘invasions’ into Adivasi dominated Vth Schedule areas?
For over two months now, the controversial, Citizenship Amendment...
Communal Riots 2019: Communal Discourse Raging On in India
Attitudinal violence and structural violence contribute immensely to physical...
Why no FIR filed against Anurag Thakur, Parvesh Verma: Court asks Delhi Police
Brinda Karat had moved court after written complaints to SHO and Commissioner failed to elicit any response
Pro-CAA group outside Jamia asks to ‘shoot the traitors’
The provocative slogan made famous by BJP ministers is being used to target the anti-CAA-NPR-NRC protestors through the country
Sedition charges against 51 including transgender activist for chanting pro-Sharjeel slogans
Organisers of the LGBT Pride solidarity meet where the slogans were raised have issued a statement dissociating themselves from those who raised the slogans
BJP’s Yogi and Javadekar call Kejriwal ‘terrorist’
Kapil Mishra says AAP should be renamed to Muslim League
Mumbai Pride: Thousands stand in solidarity against CAA, NPR-NRC
The Queer Azaadi Mumbai Pride 2020 witnessed thousands of Queer people and allies, assembled under the rainbow flag, raising slogans of equality, diversity and freedom.
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The return of four West Bengal residents after Supreme Court intervention highlights the constitutional consequences of deporting individuals before verifying their citizenship
Gender and Sexuality
Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books
An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct
Rule of Law
Promising Principles Poor Outcomes: What the judicial record on security force accountability actually shows
The Supreme Court has said that AFSPA is not a license to kill, sovereign immunity does not protect the State from liability for custodial death, and rape by a soldier requires no special court. At the same time, the number of armed forces personnel convicted by an ordinary civilian criminal court for rape in a conflict area is, on the available record, low.
World
The arbitrary detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya: A call for justice
The appeal by the Palestinian Embassy in New Delhi has called on all Indians to support and join the call for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; advocating for the protection of Palestinian healthcare workers, hospitals, ambulances, and medical facilities in accordance with international humanitarian law.
Labour
Though sewer deaths have crossed the 100 mark this year, government is silent: SKA
With three deaths on the same day in two different incidents in Madhya Pradesh, 101 people have died so far in sewers and septic tanks across the country in 188 days this year, according the data compiled by Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA). NCR Delhi alone accounts for 12 deaths.
India
The Battle of Belonging: Why India’s Passport Controversy Matters
A passport is undeniably a travel document, but it is also the republic’s assurance of belonging and sovereign protection in moments of crisis. Reducing it to mere travel facilitation strips it of its civic meaning, since passports are issued not to transients but to members of a political community.
India
Rajasthan: From Giral to Islampur, how locals are contesting development and historical identity
The author traces similarities of people’s mobilisations in Giral, Barmer and Islampur, Jhunjunu wherein both involve local communities asserting agency against decisions made elsewhere. In Giral, villagers have been robustly protesting the “benefits from mineral extraction in the name of development,” while in Islampur, residents have been questioning the communal (read majoriatrian moves to re-name and thereby, re-define a region’s identity