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Listening to the Soil : Dr Sangeeta Jawla’s Lyrical Revolt in Clay

By merging the mystic poetry of Kabir with the gritty reality of manual labour, she invites her audience to move past the romanticised image of “folk craft” and confront...

CJP intervenes to assist elderly man and son battling an unjust system

A father-son duo, at the brink of despair, meet CJP to tell the harrowing tale of how they got extorted of money for no reason

Election Commission of India says voters’ names not to be removed without prior notice

Measures taken by ECI prevent wrongful removals and ensure a fair electoral process

Democratic Deficit: Unlawful Bills tabled in Parliament: Monsoon Session 2023

The patterns of both tabling and passing Bills without democratic deliberations with the Opposition, considering diverse views especially amidst Criticism raise serious questions on their implications for India's Democracy

Fortuitous week for BJP functionaries as courts protects 3 from punitive action under law

No conviction in assault case, no FIR in hate speech, no violation of election code for BJP MP Ram Shankar, Assam CM Sarma and BJP president JP Nadda respectively

Will recently amended Birth Registration law be (mis)used to curb voting rights, even launch the dreaded NPR?

After the Lok Sabha passed Bill (amendment to the 1969 Births & registration law) to create a National Database of Births & Deaths giving sweeping powers (and control) of birth, death registration data to the union government, its serious implications need to be examined. With birth registration already having severe loopholes (77 % of children in urban areas and only 56.4 % in rural areas have had their births registered) if a birth registration certificate is made a precursor to the right to vote, implications could be disastrous. And undemocratic.

Manipur urgently needs the healing touch, prompt political intervention: former bureaucrats

113 former civil servants who have formed into the CCG (Constitutional Conduct Group), have urged urgent steps to end the conflict in Manipur, where violence has continued unchecked by the union and state governments for over three months

Achyut Yagnik, a giant public intellectual passes away at 78: Gujarat

Achyut Yagnik (1946-2023), a well-known intellectual from Gujarat, passed away...

Majoritarian agenda & Indian Muslims 

In the recent announcement of BJP’s new National executive,...

Were the 2019 general elections free & fair?

Were the 2019 general elections free and fair or did the BJP that won a disproportionate share of seats in closely contested constituencies, indulge in some manipulation, unrelated to EVMs? A research paper by an academic of Ashoka university says the density of the incumbent party’s win margin variable exhibits a discontinuous jump at the threshold value of zero’

Nuh Clashes planned and coordinated, more such violence likely before 2024 Polls: Satyapal Malik

'The whole country will burn like Manipur if these people are not contained,' the former J&K governor said, in an apparent reference to the Modi government. He also stated that like the ‘security lapse’ at Pulwama when 44 CRPF men in a road convoy were not given protection nor secure air travel, the next few months could see “attacks on the Ram temple’ at Ayodhya or the ‘killing of a senior BJP leader’

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Himanta Biswa Sarma must resign as Chief Minister of Assam for serial violations of his oath of office: PUCL

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While the government introduces safeguards against deep fakes and non-consensual imagery, the amendments also shorten response timelines and expand administrative takedown authority, prompting questions about due process and free expression

Turning the Constitution into Action: CJP’s year against a rising tide of hate

CJP turned constitutional ideals into action—defending dignity, curbing organised hate, and pressing for institutional neutrality

Supreme Court asked to intervene as petitions flag “normalisation of hate” in Assam CM’s public speeches

CPIM, Annie Raja, former civil servants and clerics seek FIRs, an independent SIT and binding guidelines on speech by constitutional functionaries, alleging sustained communal targeting and abuse of executive authority