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The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

Closure and justice: Watch Teesta Setalvad talk to Karan Thapar in this 2004 interview

As journalist and human rights defender Teesta Setalvad spends...

People of Assam shocked at sudden increase in FT notices

CJP team found that in some villages in Dhubri, notices had also been served to people from indigenous communities

Indian Govt ‘Forced’ Twitter to Hire Agent: Ex-Company Security Chief

In a whistle-blower complaint filed with US SEC, Peiter Zatko alleged that the agent had direct unsupervised access to the company’s systems and user data.

When Teesta Setalvad spoke to Kunal Kamra

As journalist and human rights defender Teesta Setalvad spends...

Malayalam writers, artists condemn the attack on Salman Rushdie

We, the undersigned, are deeply saddened and shocked by...

Govt ‘Favouring’ Private Telcos, ‘Ignoring’ BSNL: Trade Unions

The Centre is silent on the launch of BSNL’s much-delayed 4G services.

A Time to Defend Democracy in India

Social activists, academics, students, journalists and opposition leaders have faced more arrests, harassment, intimidation and assaults in recent times compared to any other time during the last four decades

Jammu and Kashmir: Local parties still edgy about alleged enrollment of “non-locals” despite clarification by UT administration

CEO says numbers have shot up due to new enrollment of eligible voters who are turning 18

Kashmiris no Longer Believe the Centre Will Listen to Them—Kapil Kak

The noted human rights activist says that in Kashmir, people view the denial of their civil rights as choking democracy, end of politics and the death of expectations.

Hopes for tomorrow: Teesta Setalvad’s speech in Nuremberg

As journalist and human rights defender Teesta Setalvad spends another night in Gujarat's Sabarmati jail, Sabrang India looks back at some of her most powerful work (and words) over the last thirty years - work and words deemed dangerous enough to be imprisoned. This is the struggle of our memory against forgetting, against the white-washing and clean-chitting of violence.

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The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

Six-year-old detained during Patna teacher aspirants’ protest, parents allege police assault

Patna Police say the child was ‘rescued’ from a potentially dangerous crowd, while his parents allege that the family was taken to a police station, where they were assaulted and kept for nearly seven hours

The ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ Isn’t a Gen Z Uprising. It’s a Rerun

The demand to “remove reservation” is one of the oldest, most recycled slogans in independent India’s political life, and it has failed, in more or less identical form, every single time it has been tried.

112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.

Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions

Pradip Prabhu, who brought hope to the oppressed, is no more

An academic activist, Pradip Prabhu worked among Adivasis as also contributed to academia and path-breaking legislation for indigenous land rights