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Through The Lens of Raghu Rai: An evening in Mumbai

A film screening at the open air venue –Press Club Mumbai terrace—brought alive the works and perspective of the legendary photographer, Raghu Rai

Enactment of the CAA has sparked a primordial fear among Muslims

Structural Violence deepens roots of Communal violence in India: the enactment of the CAA has sparked a primordial fear among Muslims, who see the government’s meddling with citizenship laws as nothing short of an existential threat.

Huge rally of women in Malegaon against CAA, NRC

Image Courtesy: indianexpress.comMalegaon witnessed its second massive protest against...

Eerie calm at JNU, women students leave hostel

In light of the violence, many women students have left campus fearing for their safety

Come rain or cold, Assam protests go on

The artists community in Assam was joined by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) for a protest rally against CAA. The eastern India is indeed keeping the flame of protests burning. Bengal also simultaneously held protest marches with its Matua community and Gorakha Janmukti Morcha (Tamang) marching on.

MP Elamaran Kareem urges President to probe JNU violence

The Rajya Sabha MP in his letter to the President also appealed to him to evict the Vice Chancellor of JNU

Police failure to protect JNU from terror attack needs to be independently investigated

Image Courtesy: countercurrents.orgThe terror attack on JNU last night...

CJP’s big win: SC hears petition, orders no children be sent to detention camps in Assam

CJP’s application sought directions from the apex court that drew attention to the Constitutional, legal obligations and prayed, specifically that no child excluded from the NRC is either sent to detention camps nor separated from their parents in Assam.

Express yourself without fear: Faculty to IIT Kanpur students

They wrote in support of students reciting Faiz’s poem “Hum Dekhenge” during anti-CAA protest

BJP and its attempts to get support for a law it passed, without due democratic debate

The BJP is conducting door-to-door campaigns, distributing pamphlets, running a missed-call campaign as it clearly struggles to make its CAA support campaign look bigger than the widespread protests.

Another death in Assam’s detention camp brings the total to 29

The total has now gone up to 29 deaths in Assam’s detention camps raising some serious questions on the condition of inmates and the claims made by government about good facilities.

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