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Somnath to Ayodhya: Plunder to ‘Chanda Chori’

How do we contrast temple destructions during kingdoms and now under a semi-democratising society turning into elected autocracy?

Farm laws: Delhi Bar Council speaks up against judicial power given to executive

The letter to the PM states that “this will seriously jeopardise the interest of public as getting justice at the doors of bureaucracy is far from reality”

When sports stars, politicians return awards citing betrayal of farmers, the world notices

Parkash Singh Badal returns Padma Vibhushan, over 50 renowned sports persons will return awards too

Will BJP succeed in diluting politics from Red to Saffron in Kerala?

The Left-government state has so far kept Hindutva politics out of power, hence the BJP offer of ‘pol power’ to hundreds of Christian and Muslim candidates

Resurgence of anti-CAA wave in Assam, BJP in denial?

With Assembly elections next year, party busy stirring the communal pot

NHRC demands reports from Centre, MP Gov’t over pension for widows of Bhopal Gas victims

The complainant approached NHRC over not having received compensation since January 2020 and listing of the Curative Petition pending since 2010  

We do not want to lose our President: KPSS suspends fast unto death

KPSS says that the government is not sensitive towards the plight of the non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley, and they will decide upon stronger steps to end the step-motherly treatment given to them by the government

36 years on, Bhopal Gas tragedy survivors still await justice

Victims and survivors of disasters past have been shunned in the wake of Covid-19. Groups working for the interest of Bhopal-disaster victims remind the Indian government that a considerable number of people still await justice even decades later.

First arrest under anti Love Jihad law in UP 

The 21-year-old accused has been booked for trying to forcefully convert a Hindu girl under the UP law and criminal intimidation under the IPC

Shaheen Bagh’s Bilkis daadi named Person of the Year!

Tops list of 500 most influential Muslims in the world along with Prof. Ilham Tohti who was imprisoned by Chinese authorities for advocating for rights of Uyghur Muslims

BJP getting overconfident in Bengal after Bihar win?

Party proclaims will make Bengal into Gujarat, then the state chief compares state to Kashmir!

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Somnath to Ayodhya: Plunder to ‘Chanda Chori’

How do we contrast temple destructions during kingdoms and now under a semi-democratising society turning into elected autocracy?

Politics of Humiliation: Mahua Moitra, mob intimidation and the Calcutta High Court’s warning

The alleged attack on Mahua Moitra came just a day after the Calcutta High Court warned against the growing culture of mob justice, public humiliation and egg pelting in West Bengal

From Outrage to Acquittal: The Raja Singh hate speech case comes to a close

Mass protests, preventive detention, political fallout and four years of criminal proceedings culminated in the acquittal of Telangana MLA T. Raja Singh

Karnataka HC allows Hindu convention but bars invitee seer from speaking to prevent law-and-order concerns

HC permits the Basavadi Shiva Sharana Bruhat Hindu Samavesha to proceed while imposing stringent conditions, including an unprecedented cap on attendance and an absolute ban on hate speech

How FIFA Colludes in the Genocide of Palestinians

FIFA claiming that ‘Football Unites the World’ is ironic, cruel and twisted. Ask Palestine.

Judging the Judge: The communal backlash against a lynching verdict

A reasoned criminal judgment gave way to an organised campaign of communal abuse, threats and intimidation targeting the judge who delivered it

Karnataka’s new PRC rules are people-friendly, but will the ECI accept them?

While a sustained and rigorous campaign by anti-SIR activists across Karnataka has pushed the opposition Congress government to issue a fresh set of simplified guidelines for the issuance of Permanent Residency Certificates; the experience of West Bengal however shows that no amount of pro-activeness by any state government influences an ECI functioning under a non-transparent and non-accountable diktat