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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

Mumbai police book five for allegedly gathering at mosque during Covid-19 lockdown

It was reported that 70 people had gathered at the mosque for a discussion on distribution of essential commodities

Joe Biden bats for restoration of rights in Kashmir

A policy paper released by the Biden campaign said that the Indian government’s measures are inconsistent with its tradition of secularism and a multi-religious democracy

Freedom of Religion: Indian Scenario

While the freedom movement accorded them equal status as religions, the communal forces regard Islam and Christianity as alien religions.  

Muslim man called “terrorist”, lynched in Saharanpur

Incident took place in western UP, four days ago, but came to light only when video of the lynching went viral!

Rigorous historical analysis is needed to comprehend contemporary politics

The Citizenship Amendment Act is inherently discriminatory, and its supporters’ arguments lack historical and cultural depth.

Why higher number of Muslims booked for lockdown violations: Telangana HC

The court asked Hyderabad police to file a fresh report, while observing loopholes in its counter affidavit

Why Muslims Should Raise a Toast to Javed Akhtar

Lyricist Javed Akhtar along with his wife Shabana Azmi....

Tablighi Jamaat: HCs come to the rescue of foreign nationals, grant bail, ask govts to avoid criminal trial

The foreign nationals who came to attend the congregation in Delhi and are now in prisons from violating visa norms, are being safeguarded by the courts of law

Do all Lives Matter in India?

Exposing the striking differences in the responses of Indian state as compared to the United States while dealing with police action vis a vis vulnerable groups

Six months since Jamia violence, police brutalities not forgotten

As we witness worldwide #BlackLivesMatter protests and criticisms of police brutality in the USA, we also need to take a look at our own police system and how it perpetrates violence.

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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