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SCs, Muslims both live in highly segregated neighbourhoods with poorer public services: International Study

The international working paper found that government services – like secondary schools, clinics and hospitals, electricity, water and sewerage – were all “systematically worse” in marginalised neighbourhoods

Can Delhi’s demolished church, and shattered trust be repaired?

Delhi CM puts the onus of church demolition on DDA, which denies charges

“Help! I’m being threatened because I’m a Christian”

A distress helpline for Christians under attack, has recorded around 154 incidents of violence in just six months, over 1,000 calls were made from across India

Heartless government poised to evict thousands amidst Covid-19, monsoon in Assam

Nearly 50 families living near a temple in Dhalpur have already been forced out of their homes, which were then bulldozed!

Poll violence, attacks on Dalits, Muslims: What is happening in UP?

Dalits OBCs may get a couple of Cabinet berths, but nothing seems to have changed on the streets of the state

CJP Impact: Twitter suspends accounts posting sexually violent content against Muslim women

A total of 21 accounts have been suspended, and three accounts have been actioned for violating Twitter’s Media Policy after CJP’s complaint

Mahapanchayats and hate panchayats are not the same

Jamia shooter, Surajpal Amu call for anti-Muslim violence, and seem to have gotten away yet again!

I raise my voice for Adivasis, am I a Traitor?

(This piece authored by Fr Stan Swamy was originally...

CJP complains to Zee News against a debate programme about Population Control

The show used pictures of areas crowded with Muslims to spread rumours about alleged population growth

Is the Assam CM’s push for a “two-child policy” a tactic to exclude minorities?

While he tried to soften the blow by condemning the vilification of the community, Himanta Biswa Sarma’s agenda overwhelmingly alienates people from minority backgrounds

Nuh: People’s Conference for Communal Harmony

The incident that prompted this conference was the brutal murder of a young man, Asif

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Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

Policing Identity: Maharashtra’s birth certificate crackdown and the politics of belonging

What is framed as an administrative clean-up of fraudulent records in Maharashtra has unfolded into a securitised campaign in Mumbai — raising urgent constitutional questions about due process, discrimination, and the weaponisation of civil documentation

A Republic Must Tolerate Art — But Not Denigration: Supreme Court reasserts fraternity as a constitutional boundary

While closing the challenge to a withdrawn film title, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that vilifying any community is constitutionally impermissible — even as it robustly defended artistic freedom under Article 19(1)(a), striking a careful balance between dignity and dissent in a 75-year-old Republic

Hegemony: Kerala’s Bharatapuzha as a political stage

Unlike the North Indian Kumbh, the Bharatapuzha by contrast has never functioned as a Pan-Hindu pilgrimage centre. It has no historical association with mass ritual bathing, no priestly networks that regulate sacred time, and no inherited mythological mandate that binds the river to cyclical purification rites. The introduction of the Maha Magha Mahotsavam is a clear cultural imposition by Hindutva

JNU: Former JNUSU President complains against Vice Chancellor’s casteist & racist remarks

Two complaints, one by former JNUSU president, Dhananjay and the second BY Suraj Kumar Baudh, an activist, take on Santishree D. Pandit, Vice-Chancellor of JNU for her recent casteist and racist comments

From Permanent Refuge to Perpetual Limbo: Why Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain without citizenship even as electoral assurances reshape belonging in Bengal

Four decades after the 1983 exodus, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain classified as foreigners despite generations of residence in India — even as citizenship becomes a visible electoral assurance in Bengal through CAA-linked mobilisation