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Manipur Year 4: Guns Without Justice
Three years into the worst episode of ethnic violence, marked by grave allegations of state failure and complicity, in post-independence India, the central government is preparing to deploy around...
Kisan Bharat Bandh: Mainstream media whines about “traffic jams”, social media presents true picture
The tone and tenor of the reportage, and the recurring self contradiction, says a lot about the state of the news media in India
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Nationwide strike successful - SKM's call receives huge response from farmers, workers, trade and students unions
Art and Revolution: Top 10 posters from the Bharat Bandh
SabrangIndia picks out 10 posters that portray the strength of Monday’s nationwide strike called by farmers' and worker' groups
Mihir Bhoj statue: UP gov’t under fire at Gurjar Mahapanchayat
Controversy over ‘caste’ and lineage of 9th Century king Mihir Bhoj, fuelled further by UP CM Adityanath unveiling statue
Final Solutions
The mindset of both, Nazism and Hindutva, cannot fail to strike one with their remarkable likeness
Will Haryana have mid-term polls?
Wait and watch says, former CM Om Prakash Chautala, at Jind rally, the first public show of the intent to launch a third front
Wider “WE” is Witness!
A significant section of society has now become ‘Us and Them’; the tendency is to exclude the other
Singing and Spreading Radical Love: Kamla Bhasin (April 24, 1946 to September 25, 2021)
Firebrand feminist, activist, author poet, Kamla Bhasin, passed away on Saturday, succumbing to cancer
Mahant Narendra Giri death: 20 member CBI team will investigate the case
The Centre notified that the Central Bureau of Investigation will now investigate the death as having taken place under suspicious circumstances
PM CARES: Whose Fund is it anyway?
An Undersecretary in the PMO has admitted that the trust fund is not a fund of the GoI in a written submission before the Delhi High Court
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