Secularism

Building on Pankaj Bansal and Prabir Purkayastha judgements, the Court constitutionalised a uniform standard—every arrest, whether under IPC/BNS or special enactments, must be supported by written grounds communicated in the arrestee’s own language, failing which the arrest stands void

Officials at Attari–Wagah reportedly told the pilgrims, “You are Hindu, you cannot go with a Sikh group,” sending them back despite valid travel documents

As India’s online world expands, so does the gap between crime and accountability. NCRB data records numbers, but not the reasons behind their soaring increase; besides erasure of reporting of gendered cybercrimes constitute a glaring gap: there is an absence of adequate reportage within NCRB on stalking, cyberbullying, morphing, which are show a mere 5 per cent of rise

Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan reasserts constitutional and gender equality, procedural fairness, and the emotional agency of Muslim women in a landmark judgment

The passing of 90-year-old Bhadant Gyaneshwar, President of the Kushinagar Bhikshu Sangh and a disciple of Bhante Chandramani—who gave Baba Saheb his deeksha at the historic Deekshabhumi in Nagpur on October 14, 1956, on Dhammachakrapravartan Day—represents a great loss for the Buddhist fraternity worldwide

In this brief, data-driven socio-political timeline of 20th-21st Century India, the author reminds us of the context in which the controversial Bollywood movie, Haq, is sought to be released