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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...

Busted: Exploring the origins of Australia as ‘Astralaya’ and the potential Indian Yogi influence on Baalbek Temple in Lebanon

Spiritual figures make competing claims about Australian and Lebanese History, both Sadhguru's Isha and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's organisations in the spotlight

Free Speech: Petition by The Caravan against removal of its article on custodial torture in J&K points to violations of principles of natural justice,...

On March 13, the Delhi Press Patra Prakashan moved a writ petition in the Delhi High Court to seek quashing of take down orders issued by the Union government under Section 69A of the IT Act

India third highest across the world to enforce internet shutdowns

India comes third, after Myanmar and Sudan, in enforcing internet shutdowns in the country according to a report. India also enforced the longest duration of an internet shutdown in 2023 in Manipur.

The Fire next time: an impassioned plea to the nation for communal sanity

From the archives of Communalism Combat, No. 20, March 1996

CAA: An attempt to legitimise expansionist nationalism

The CAA 2019 and recent rules are not only violates national and international law, but through arcane notions of Akhand Bharat, promotes a rigid expansionist nationalism

Adieu Ramu, Admiral Ramdas, a public servant of civility, grace and conviction; for you, a personal & professional tribute

Farewell Ramu: A Personal and professional tribute to Admiral Ramdas, a public servant of civility, grace, and conviction

Conduct independent inquiry into Arun Goel, Election Commissioner’s resignation, don’t allow elections until inquiry public: Open letter to President Murmu

A former secretary to the government of India, Dr EAS Sarma has, in an open letter to President Draupadi Murmu urged her to invoke special powers under the Constitution, not allow announcement of elections or any major policy decision until an independent inquiry into the sudden resignation of Arun Goel is carried out and made public

Three Banes of India’s Muslims: Victimhood Syndrome, Power Theology, Obsession with Identity Politics

The author makes a convincing argument –based on a close study of the past century --for doses of rationality and soul-searching in the ongoing battle for minority rights and dignity, urges Indian Muslims to make their own contribution to invest in secularising India, and baldly asserts that minority communalism is no antidote to majoirtarianism

Creating an NPR for an all India NRC without informed consent?

Citizens activism through the Right to Information Act (RTI)...

Report: 294 houses demolished on a daily basis in 2023 in India

In a recent report, the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) has unveiled stark figures and has shed light on the current situation that has resulted out of forced evictions in India during the years 2022 and 2023.

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From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits

From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse