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CJP 2025: a constitutional vanguard against hate and coercion during elections

Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) spent 2025 defending India's secular fabric, filing rigorous and fearlessly complaints against communal polarisation and state-sponsored demonisation, by invoking the Model Code of Conduct, CJP successfully initiated challenges electoral hate speech and the weaponisation of welfare

Is There a Hidden Narrative Behind Slurs Hurled in Parliament?

BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri’s outburst in the Lok Sabha empowers neither women nor the backward classes.

Maharashtra tops states in anti-Muslim hate speech, 80 % of hate in BJP ruled states: Hindutva Watch

A disturbingly high level of incidents all over the country but most especially in BJP-ruled states make lives of Indian minorities both fragile and vulnerable

The blatant anti-Muslim bias displayed in the Indian parliament is a shame for the country

BJP MP targets a Muslim MP, uses anti-Muslim slurs, calls him “Muslim terrorist and militant” during the Special Session of the Lok Sabha, comments expunged after uproar

FIR against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma for hate speech

Filed by senior Congress MLA Debabrata Saikia, the complaint outlines how Himanta Biswa Sarma incited violence and arson, reports The Hindu

Meta Facebook releases second human rights report, activists say no concrete plan to tackle issues in India

The report was criticised by Access Now as failing to "show any meaningful or verifiable progress" on Metaʼs human rights harms in India or any clear proposals to prepare for the 2024 general elections.

Yati Narsinghanand booked for comments on former president

The priest from the Dasna Devi temple was allegedly seen on social media calling APJ Abdul Kalam a ‘traitor’ and other offensive terms.

Hate speeches by VHP, BJP leaders continue as India slated to host world leaders

Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra witness hate speech against minorities filled with fake news, myths and anti-minority rhetoric.

Hate speech and communal tensions simmers across the nation

Communal incidents in multiple states against Muslims and Christians seemingly become routine as hate speeches continue to be given with little action against them.

Hate surges across Uttarkhand, Karnataka, Delhi, and UP

Sabrang India brings to you a breakdown of the recent hate incidents across the nation

Communally charged speeches continue across North India this week

Hate-laced speeches filled with fake news and exaggerated claims by Hindutva leaders continue across Rajasthan, Haryana, and Chhattisgarh

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CJP 2025: a constitutional vanguard against hate and coercion during elections

Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) spent 2025 defending India's secular fabric, filing rigorous and fearlessly complaints against communal polarisation and state-sponsored demonisation, by invoking the Model Code of Conduct, CJP successfully initiated challenges electoral hate speech and the weaponisation of welfare

Galgotias University’s AI Expo Debacle: What it says about Contemporary Indian Education & Public Culture

At the 2026 India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi — pitched by the government as a signal of India’s rising stature in artificial intelligence and technological innovation — one of the most discussed stories was not a breakthrough in research, but a blunder by Galgotias University that turned into a national embarrassment.

From D-Voter Tagging to Citizenship Declaration: Anowara Khatun’s case before the foreigners’ tribunal

A Goalpara woman’s case underscores structural barriers faced by economically disadvantaged individuals in proving citizenship

Rebuild or Compensate: Nagpur HC confronts NMC over ‘bulldozer’ demolition in riot case

Court flags prima facie breach of Supreme Court safeguards; asks civic body to decide whether it will reconstruct the house or pay damages

CJP’s 2025 Hate Watch: leading the fight for accountability in the digital media

In 2025, CJP emerged as India’s leading voice confronting digital hate on television, spearheading sustained NBDSA interventions that challenged communal broadcasts/debate, secured corrective orders, and strengthened accountability frameworks to restrain the spread of hateful and polarising content across news media

The Double Stage: Caste’s Schizophrenic Modernity between Spectacle and Shadow

Caste from the pre-modern, colonial to the post-Republican; this analysis draws from, among others, works by Nicholas Dirks (2001), Anand Teltumbde (2014) and Gopal Guru (2016) to map this transition showing that contemporary caste should be best understood as a sort of social schizophrenia driven by imaginative acts whereby power perpetuates itself through a convoluted hermetic legitimising act in India.