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Three Years of the Congress Government
A People’s Critique: Expectations and Disillusionments
Youth as game changers in Lok Sabha polls? Young voter registration ‘is so very low’
Young voters will be the game changers in 2024....
What are you doing Bro? Cyrus writes a 20 Point, Open Letter to Rahul Gandhi
In a hilarious and sarcastic dig, the author, a senior freelance journalist, lays out exactly what in the Indian National Congress’ manifesto (released on April 5, 2024) is irking the privileged and socially entrenched chatterati and this includes the country’s omnipresent television anchors; and why a re-assertion of India’s commitment to the constitutional vision at this juncture in our journey is something that ought to be celebrated
Modi v/s Modi – Will the Real PM Please Stand Up?
Given the relevance of the issues in this essay,...
Militarising Minds, Hindutvaising the Nation | Training Future Military Leaders Imbued in Hindutva Supremacism?
How the policy of PPP (Public Private Partnership) Model in Sainik Schools is counter to all Constitutional principles and values
PSST! Shall we inform the reader or let sleeping bonds lie?
The senior editor questions the strange shadows and silences in the pre-eminent and dominant Indian media industry on the obvious follow-ups to the mammoth Electoral Bonds Scam and points out how, from the questionable role of the State Bank of India (SBI) to former, Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley there are some crucial stories still crying to be done
On Yaum-Al-Quds 2024, Massive Rallies Renew Call For Al-Aqsa Liberation In Kashmir, Kargil
First time, anti-Israeli and pro-Palestine protest rallies organised in Kashmir
YouTube allows content containing false and incendiary information about India’s elections: report
Access Now and Global Witness conducted an investigative exercise where they submitted 48 advertisements with disinformation to check if it would pass YouTube’s content moderation policies.
Congress Radio, the power of revolutionary change: Lessons from ‘Ae Watan Mere Watan’, the film
Usha Mehta, a fiery satyagrahi, mesmerised by Gandhi, is the protagonist of this timely film; she with her two young colleagues, conceived and ran the underground ‘Congress Radio’ from Mumbai to both inform and unite fellow Indians left leaderless after the British crackdown on the Congress leadership following the historic quit India Rally at Gowalia Tank on August 8, 1942; “Karo Ya Maro” (Do or Die) was the powerful cry from the Indian people that day and Congress Radio, epitomises this unique contribution to the freedom struggle; it re-ignited the ‘Quit India Movement’ that challenged the oppressive British regime
Films building up a majoritarian narrative: Swatantraveer Savarkar
Films are a very powerful medium which create a social understanding...
IPMIE Bulletin on Elections 2024: Appointment of Election Commissioners, arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, EVM failure, media bias, voter registration
An Independent Panel for Monitoring Indian Elections 2024, has been formed to address concerns of civil society on the upcoming general elections; its first release points out a catalogue of concerns
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Rights
Bhodu Sekh Case: Union agrees before Supreme Court to repatriate deported Bengali-speaking individuals pending citizenship inquiry
Union tells Court those sent to Bangladesh will be brought back and their citizenship claims examined in India; clarifies decision is confined to the exceptional facts of the case
Communalism
Have Hindus always been Vegetarian?
The author academic exposes the propaganda in what he terms as the “Hindutva Hoax of Vegetarian Hinduism”
Rule of Law
J&K High Court quashes preventive detention in cattle transport case, says PSA cannot substitute ordinary criminal law
Court holds allegations relating to cattle transportation and offences under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act concern “law and order” at best, and do not justify preventive detention under the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act
Rule of Law
Supreme Court refers UAPA bail jurisprudence to larger bench; grants interim bail to Tasleem Ahmed and Khalid Saifi in Delhi riots conspiracy case
Court says K.A. Najeeb cannot be reduced either to a “mathematical formula” mandating bail solely due to delay or to a hollow constitutional safeguard overridden entirely by Section 43D(5) of the UAPA
Rule of Law
Andrabi Judgment: Section 43D(5) UAPA cannot override right to speedy trial, restores primacy of Article 21 in UAPA cases
The judgment restores the constitutional framework laid down in KA Najeeb and cautions against treating anti-terror bail restrictions as a basis for indefinite pre-trial detention
Environment
Environmental Jurisprudence: The Bombay High Court’s shifting language
Part II turns its attention to Western India: Mumbai, the rest of Maharashtra, and the long shadow of the Western Ghats where from sound coastal-zone jurisprudence, the High Court has been asked to, and has, permitted successive ‘infrastructure’ projects that have touched coasts, mangroves and the urban forest.
Labour
Noida Protest 2026: A labour uprising the state refused to understand
The protests that paralysed Noida’s industrial belt in April 2026 exposed not only worsening labour conditions but also the growing tendency of the state to treat democratic labour mobilisation as a law-and-order problem