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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...

Free unrestricted access to Gaza: Reporters without Borders & CPJ issue open letter

Open letter from media and press freedom organisations on Gaza access

Long-delayed Census to be Conducted in Two Phases From October 2026

Opposition parties have questioned the government’s move to further delay the census.

Defeating Terror: A complex rigmarole

The Pahalgam attack on tourists led to a chain...

Assam: Academics, lawyers, activists condemn ‘push back’ of persons to Bangladesh

This non transparent action launched post May 23, 2025 ‘falls on the wrong side of constitutionality’ and violates the rights to life and equality of those expelled, they said in a statement

CJP’s submits supplementary memo to NHRC revealing returnee testimonies after Assam’s allegedly unlawful expulsion of persons to Bangladesh

Latest submission documents the late night detentions and expulsions that violated all procedures, family testimonies, amounting to the forced abandonment of persons in Bangladeshi borderlands.

Assam: When six ordinary Indian women were forcibly pushed out from India–No Man’s land– Bangladesh & then back

The sum total of what cruelties can be suffered when state authorities become unaccountable and function above the law, slurring ordinary Indians as “Bangladeshi”; the first person exclusive accounts are from six hapless women from various locales in Assam, fortunate to be dumped back within Assam on a highway far from home after first being unlawfully pushed into to Bangladesh!

Citizens’ Convention in Kolkata Calls For United Fight to ‘Save Constitution’

Amid growing attacks on marginalised sections and freedom of speech, the packed convention called for a united front against communalism and fascism.

Mumbai Walks for Peace | Citizens Unite Against Hate

Over 500 Mumbaikars came together in a peaceful march...

Girish The Master Filmaker and His Art | KaIFF | The AIDEM | Part 01

Girish Kasaravalli, one of the great masters of Indian...

Does God exist or am I screaming into an empty sky?

The budding writer and poet is a student of the law in Mumbai

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Victory for Forest Rights: Allahabad HC recognises land claims of Tharu Tribes, strikes down decision of DLC

The Allahabad High Court recently struck down a 2021 decision of the District Level Committee (DLC), Lakhimpur upholding the land rights of the Tharu tribe while observing that the authorities cannot short-circuit the existing statutory rights of the forest dwellers by blindly relying on court orders issued before the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA, 2006). This law recognises the individual and community rights of Adivasis.

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The past conduct and ideological moorings of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as that of its parent body, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) reflect not just extreme and exclusivist views on women’s participation but are arguably distinctly misogynistic

Police action in Odisha’s Rayagada district condemned, Adivasi rights paramount: CCG

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Bihar “Infiltrator” Hysteria: Samrat Choudhary’s claims of disenfranchising 22-lakh people corresponds to ECI’s “deceased voters” figure

Over the past weeks—even before replacing Nitish Kumar as Chief Minister of Bihar on April 15—Samrat Choudhary has, while campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party, claimed that 22-lakh people would be struck off Bihar’s electoral rolls, with their driving licences and other benefits cancelled. The irony, however, is this: the figure of 22-lakh—drawn from the recently conducted, controversial SIR exercise in the state—corresponds only to deceased voters