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The State Wants the Delete Button: India’s new architecture of digital censorship
Nearly 1.95 lakh blocking directions in five months raise urgent questions about transparency, due process and the constitutional limits of government control over online speech
Why is Bihar asking for a ‘Love Jihad’ law?
The demand comes from a Hindutva outfit members to curb the alleged rise in cases of religious conversions
Gopesh Das: A victim of institutional murder
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As his wife rotted behind bars in a detention camp, Das died alone of a broken heart and crushed hopes of her release
Adani buys ad space in Punjab paper to advocate for farm laws
Amid intensifying protests, Adani Group decides to put up an advertisement in Punjab Kesari, a local newspaper, to distinguish ‘truth’ from ‘lies’
Booklet on Modi’s “special relationship” with Sikhs misleading
It allegedly tries to hide some facts about 1984 Genocide
Farmers’ leaders at Jaipur-Delhi highway promise growing strength over next few days
Leaders assure that the Modi-regime will fail to dissuade India’s farmers in their opposition to the three anti-farmer laws
Amit Shah welcomes Suvendu Adhikari in Bengal BJP
Huge exodus from TMC and other parties as 1 MP, 9 MLAs, and multiple local body officials switch to BJP
Gujarat: Are BJP leaders counseling women against inter faith marriages?
Several BJP leaders including the party city President recently met a 23-year-old woman, and explained the pros and cons of her marriage to a Muslim boy of the same age
Clean chit to Tablighi Jamaat, too little, too late?
Part-one of this two-part series traces how courts have ruled against hate. But with the incessant vilification, perhaps the damage has already been done.
Sikh priest’s suicide exposes double speak of the ruling BJP and its apologists
His suicide note read that he was outraged by the mistreatment of farmers camping outside the national capital of New Delhi
Maharashtra farmers to leave for Delhi on December 21
On-ground reports of farmers' movement prove contrary to the mainstream narrative of dwindling momentum
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The State Wants the Delete Button: India’s new architecture of digital censorship
Nearly 1.95 lakh blocking directions in five months raise urgent questions about transparency, due process and the constitutional limits of government control over online speech
India
Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12
Nearly 1.94 crore (19.4 million) enumeration forms digitised during SIR; over 20 lakh electors categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), Voters whose names are missing from the draft can file claims for inclusion till September 12, even as complaints on social media during the enumeration phase highlighted difficulties faced by electors
Communalism
When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat
From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands
India
Maharashtra SIR: 2.08 crore (20.8 million) voter forms “uncollected” hence may not be listed in August 24 draft electoral roll
More than 1 in 5 voter enumeration forms have remained “uncollected” on the final day of Maharashtra’s SIR exercise, with urban districts accounting for a large share of those bureaucratically “excluded”-- nearly 95 lakh forms were uncollected in Thane, Mumbai and Pune, though voters left out of the draft will get a month to seek inclusion or correction
Minorities
Jharkand government accused of continued communal lynchings by fact-finding team
The fact-finding team that comprised representatives of Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha, Karwan e Mohabbat, Sajha Kadam and United Milli Forum has demanded that both the family of the deceased (lynched) man and victim survivor be provided protection and an impartial probe be conducted
India
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
Gender and Sexuality
When Family Becomes Custody: Allahabad HC holds adult women’s faith, residence and liberty cannot be placed under parental control
Holding that an alleged unlawful conversion cannot become a licence for private confinement, the Court separates the legality of religious conversion from the legality of detention—and holds the father and Uttar Pradesh State jointly liable for ₹25 lakh in constitutional compensation