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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

Kashmiri Pandits go on second hunger strike in J&K!

They had ended a 10 day fast in September after assurance from authorities about action on their demands for implementation of various government schemes for employment and sustenance

Arundhati Roy turns a year stronger

We wish her a long life on her birthday to continue leading us through these dark times  

Another supplementary charge sheet against Umar Khalid!  

The 930-page chargesheet by the Delhi Police cites Khalid’s trip to Patna as part of ‘conspiracy’ leading to riots

Six Bangladeshis deported from Assam

They had been lodged in Detention Camps for over two years

Kashmiri Pandit group to go on hunger strike from Nov 22

KPSS says administration has reneged on promises made to non-migrant Kashmiri Pandit families

“How long will or can the moon be caged, hum dekhenge…”

Six months in prison for dreaming of freedom? Citizens demand the release of Devangana, Natasha and all anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protesters

Impact of a High Court striking down a Central law as invalid

The Supreme Court, on November 17, asked a petitioner to take his petition challenging a central law to the high court. What impact does that have on jurisprudence?

NPR on backburner, questions yet to be finalised

The Registrar General of India said in its response to an RTI application that the NPR schedule has not been finalised

The Khalistan conspiracy makes startling revelations about the state complicity in Sikh Genocide

But the book glosses over the crimes of current Hindutva nationalist regime

Demand for ‘Hindu Rashtra’ trends on Twitter

Communal hashtag was tweeted over 48,000 times at the time of going to press!

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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