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Sumit Sarkar: Engaged scholarship, ways of historical thinking, an enduring legacy
Scholar of modern India with a path breaking approach to research and his discipline, historian Sumit Sarkar transformed how modern Indian history was understood, bringing ordinary people and their experiences to the centre of historical scholarship
The Catholic Church is NOT Apolitical
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Defending Human Rights, Challenging State Impunity
Kanna advanced the argument that there should not be any form of prior sanction for prosecuting a policeman in a Human Rights Court. The fact that there is the establishment of a Human Rights Court at the district level under the protection of Human Rights Act is by itself a statutory sanction. No separate sanction is required. He was one of the fiercest opponents of the constitution of the NHRC in India. It was his view that criminal courts in the country need to be strengthened, and violations fought through the courts. Any other form of dealing with human rights would not, in his view, help in the promotion of a human rights culture in the long term.
85 hours and counting: Raid continues at NewsClick, editor’s health deteriorates
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TN petrol pump offers free petrol to combat rising prices and promote Tamil culture
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Professor G N Saibaba tests Covid-19 positive in Nagpur jail
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SC rejects Shaheen Bagh review plea, rules Right to Protest cannot happen ‘anytime’
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Karnataka villagers detained for protesting quarrying project
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