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The Metamorphic Resistance: Mahmoud Darwish, Resilience (Sumud), and the Architecture of Survival

If you are not rain, my love,be a tree sated with fertility, be a tree.And if you are not a tree, my love, be stone saturated with humidity, be stone.And...

WCD Ministry gives unsatisfactory answers on efforts to protect women and children

In response to an unstarred question made during the Lok Sabha session by four Members of Parliament, Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) Smriti Irani appeared to only relay old, publicly available data on the issues.

JNU Alumni protest fees hike in Kolkata, gets support from several Universities

Professors, students and parents, who are aggrieved with the fee hike in public education system of India poured in huge number in central Kolkata to show solidarity with JNU alumni demanding fee hike to be rolled back

Student Movement and Public Education

The movement of Students along with other Universities and...

WCD Ministry offers up cookie-cutter answers to queries on domestic violence

When asked about cases of domestic violence over the last three years, Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) Smriti Irani responded in Parliament with old figures.

Bihar’s MGNREGA Workers Stare at Deeper Rural Stagnation

The rural workforce is caught between delayed or non-payment of wages in the state and lack of jobs outside.

Public consultation? Govt of India ‘didn’t consult’ even CIC before amending RTI Act

Information accessed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act...

Protests break out across Assam, Barak & Brahmaputra Valley against CAB

Across Assam, from the Barak Valley in upper Assam to the Brahmaputra Valley in lower Assam, protests against the Modi.2 government’s Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB, 2019) are breaking out proving to be an embarrassment to the BJP regime in the state

Opposition builds, TMC joins JD-U against Citizenship (amendment) Bill in Parliament

Discriminatory citizenship in the CAB was an election promise of the BJP during the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

WB bye elections: TMC knocks the wind out of BJP, wins all three constituencies

Huge embarrassment of BJP as TMC wins state chief Dilip Ghosh’s constituency!

‘Government-backed attacks’: Google warned 500 Indians against hacking

The search giant issued over 12,000 warnings to users across the country against hacking state-sponsored attackers from July – Sept 2019

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The Allahabad High Court recently struck down a 2021 decision of the District Level Committee (DLC), Lakhimpur upholding the land rights of the Tharu tribe while observing that the authorities cannot short-circuit the existing statutory rights of the forest dwellers by blindly relying on court orders issued before the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA, 2006). This law recognises the individual and community rights of Adivasis.

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Police action in Odisha’s Rayagada district condemned, Adivasi rights paramount: CCG

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