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A regressive 2026 amendment to rights of Trans persons is under legal challenge even as pride month is celebrated
Unable to stay the statute, High Courts have charted a middle path—protecting petitioners already undergoing hormone therapy while the broader constitutional challenge awaits adjudication by the Supreme Court
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From Media Stages to Religious Gatherings: CJP moves NCM against Kalicharan Maharaj
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A detailed complaint documents how repeated hate speeches targeting Muslims threaten public order, minority safety, and the constitutional promise of fraternity
Cataloguing Communalism: What does the year-long record of hate, violence, and state failure in coastal Karnataka depict
Compiled from local media reports, the Chronicle of Communal Incidents in Coastal Karnataka 2025 documents 142 communal incidents—revealing how violence, provocation and digital hate have become structural features of the region
Acid Attacks: The judicial struggle to regulate acid violence in India
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From the landmark mandate of Laxmi v. Union of India to the BNS, a critical examination of why progressive legal doctrine continues to falter against the wall of administrative inertia and systemic trial delays
Love-Letters like no other
From India‘s Forgotten Feminist, Savitribai Phule to life partner Jyotiba
Himachal Haryana, racial harassment and attacks on Kashmiri shawl sellers rage on
Himachal Pradesh, presently Congress-ruled and Haryana, BJP ruled have seen recent attacks on Kashmiri shawl sellers increase
Racist, casteist and communal, when will we as Indians reclaim that lost charade of constitutional decency?
Returning to civilizational roots requires battling back and again the stratification of othering and exclusion rooted in state and society
CJP moves National Commission for Minorities over vigilante violence, identity policing, and targeted evictions across states
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Complaint documents a pattern of assaults, economic intimidation, disruption of prayer meetings, and selective state response affecting Muslim and Christian communities between September and November 2025
Historic Victory at Panjab University, but Federalism Remains at Stake
At a time when the BJP is forcefully implementing...
Protest outside Delhi HC gate over bail in Unnao rape case, survivor’s mother asks for maximum punishment
Protesters gathered near the court premises, raising slogans and expressing opposition to the bail order
Delhi HC grants bail pending appeal to Unnao rape convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar
The bail order accompanies a temporary suspension of sentence for Sengar will walk free; it has returned public attention to the survivor and her mother's pursuit of justice since 2017; Sengar will, however, remain in jail as he is also serving a 10-year sentence in the custodial death case of the rape victim’s father
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What began as a case about encroachments has become a searching inquiry into the State's failure to implement the Street Vendors Act, the rights of pedestrians and informal workers, and the growing role of identification and verification in urban governance
India
Defectors & Democracy: A critique of the Tenth Schedule of the Indian Constitution
The right of voters to recall representatives who defect—as seen in West Bengal, Maharashtra, Goa and Arunachal Pradesh—and the requirement of intra-party democracy could form part of a broader institutional redesign. Such measures would deepen democratic values and, above all, signal a refusal by citizens to accept the corruption of their mandate. These may be among the reforms that India's Parliament and democracy most urgently need
Gender and Sexuality
A regressive 2026 amendment to rights of Trans persons is under legal challenge even as pride month is celebrated
Unable to stay the statute, High Courts have charted a middle path—protecting petitioners already undergoing hormone therapy while the broader constitutional challenge awaits adjudication by the Supreme Court
India
The what’s & why’s of Data Centres and how are they hijacking the India Story
While countries such as Singapore and Sweden are curbing the environmental costs of data centres through regulation and innovation, India is actively courting these resource-intensive facilities with little regard for their water and energy demands. From Stockholm's waste-heat recovery systems to zero-water cooling technologies, solutions exist. Yet India continues to trade away land, water and public resources with scant consideration for environmental sustainability or local communities.
Politics
Telegram before NEET: When governance fails, censorship takes its place
Invoking exam security to suspend access to a platform used by millions raises serious questions about proportionality, transparency and the growing tendency to restrict communications whenever governance challenges arise
India
Yes, Savarkar did file 10 Mercy Petitions before the British, revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh refused to Compromise: Grandnephew tells Pune Court
Savarkar’s grandnephew who had lodged a criminal defamation case against LOP Rahul Gandhi, stated and admitted during his testimony that while there were other freedom fighters who refused to file clemency petitions before the British, his uncle Vinayak Savarkar had filed as many as ten!
Rule of Law
Court recognises mob lynching as aggravating factor, sentences seven to life for 2022 cow-vigilantism killing
By expressly recognising mob lynching as an aggravating circumstance, the judgment strengthens accountability for vigilante violence and underscores the application of collective liability principles under Section 149 IPC