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The Republic Speaks Back: How Student Power Reminded Authority of Its Limits
The author argues that varied protests and movements of the past dozen years --from the anti-CAA/NRC protests, to the farmers’ mass mobilisations to the recent Gen ‘Z’ upsurge --these movements may differ in their immediate demands, but they share a common democratic foundation: Citizens do not take to the streets because they have abandoned faith in the Republic. They do so because they believe the Republic can still be made to listen.
Religious Freedom: How the USCIRF continues to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC)
For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”
USCIRF’s Call for Sanctions on the RSS Is a Major Moral and Political Marker
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has apart from continuing to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), also recommended targeted sanctions against the RSS; this is a first.
Odisha: 18 months, 54 incidents of communal hate crimes, 7 mob lynchings
Admitting to a spiral in communally driven hate crimes in eastern state of Odisha since June 2024 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a majoritarian outfit came to power, Odisha’s chief minister, Charan Majhi said on Monday, March 9 that 54 such incidents and seven mob lynchings were recorded in that state; this was in a written reply to the State Assembly
Varanasi, UP: No to war, we want peace
A vibrant protest and silent hunger strike (maun upwas) was undertaken by citizens of Varanasi protesting US-Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran; the protest took place at the symbolic Ambedkar Park on Saturday, March 7, under the banner of Sanjha Sanskriti Manch
Why Cricket should remain above religious nationalism
The sight of the captain of the victorious Indian T-20 team, Surya Kumar Yadav, jubilantly accompanying ICC Chairman Jay Shah to a temple in Ahmedabad has drawn sharp comments on social media.
A history that teaches, a historian that shared, in Memoriam: Professor K.N. Panikkar
On March 9, 2026, a Monday, noted historian and alumni of the indomitable Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), K.N.Panikkar, passed away at a hospital in Thiruvanthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala. Born on April 26, 1936, KN as he was fondly known by fellow academics and activists alike, was one of the pioneers of the Marxist school of historiography
US-Israel War on Iran sees spirals in Hate against Muslim Americans: CSOH
The Centre for the Study of Organised Hate has analysed how Islamophobic discourse has spiralled post February 28 when the US-Israel launched an attack on Iran
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