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“Obnoxious and Caste-Coloured”: Supreme Court strikes down Odisha bail orders mandating cleaning work, declares them void
Acting on suo-moto proceedings triggered by media reports, the Court condemns “degrading” bail conditions imposed on Dalit and Adivasi accused, warns against judicial overreach, and reinforces that liberty cannot be conditioned on humiliation or caste-based labour
She hit me so much that the helmet broke”: Pawan Rao Ambedkar on UP police
The activist who was released on bail last week, wasn’t even a part of the protest but was brutally attacked by the Lucknow cops
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In a first, BJP leader, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi objects to the ‘Go to Pakistan’ slogan for Indian Muslims
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Terror has been repeatedly unleashed on JNU, lest we forget the disappearance of young Najeeb, and several times before
The questions of the young that clearly rattle this regime have made them repeat victims of brute violent assault: from the police and the ABVP. Hate and targeted speech has been systematically used to make them special targets; JNU and its student leadership have borne the brunt of physical blows and assaults on more than a dozen occasions in the past six and a half years
After silencing protests by violence, UP starts implementing CAA
Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh unleashed the worst of police atrocities on its people; those who were protesting as well as those who were not. Yet, undeterred by public resentment, the state has started process for implementing CAA.
Enactment of the CAA has sparked a primordial fear among Muslims
Structural Violence deepens roots of Communal violence in India: the enactment of the CAA has sparked a primordial fear among Muslims, who see the government’s meddling with citizenship laws as nothing short of an existential threat.
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Karnataka’s tryst with hate and bigotry
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