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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...

Vyapam scam: 31 found guilty

Justice comes at a steep price, as close to 40 people connected with the case including witnesses and a journalist were killed to cover up the scam.

NRC & Citizenship Issue today a rights crisis of epic proportions, Assam: Fact-Finding Report

Interim Report of the Fact-Finding visit to Assam on the Updating of the NRC

An all-India NRC, coupled with CAB aims to threaten, destabilise & stigmatise Indian Muslims: Arundhati Roy

Roy delivered the Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture for 2019 on November 12 in New York City organized by The Nation. The text has appeared in The Nation and The Caravan and is now being published here.

Centre not budging on paddy procurement: Chhattisgarh CM

On Monday, at the winter session of the Chhattisgarh legislative assembly, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel lashed at the Centre for refusing to procure paddy at the rate of ₹ 2,500 per quintal.

In Jharkhand, Forest Rights Could Decide Votes In 77% Assembly Seats

New Delhi: Tribals’ dissatisfaction with the slow implementation of...

Mamata seeks to give land rights to refugees in West Bengal

Mamata Banerjee seems to be at the forefront when it comes to speaking up against the National Register of Citizens (NRC ) and the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). Now, she is going a step further.

All is not well for the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in India

The beginning of the second week of the Parliament’s winter session witnessed questions regarding the government’s Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS), the responses to which can be regarded as a report card on MDMS.

Maharashtra gov’t formation: SC orders floor test

The political juggernaut that appeared to be hurtling at breakneck speed in Maharashtra appears to be sobering down with the Supreme Court passing an order, on Constitution Day no less, directing that a floor test be conducted.

India is not quite yet a Hindu Rashtra: 70th Constitution Day

In January 2018, four top Supreme Court Judges in...

Anti-Aadhaar to Pro-Aadhaar? Mamata approves proposal to link Aadhaar with ration cards

She took the move after her government convinced her that it would save Rs. 500 crore annually under the PDS

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Victory for Forest Rights: Allahabad HC recognises land claims of Tharu Tribes, strikes down decision of DLC

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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