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Three Years of the Congress Government
A People’s Critique: Expectations and Disillusionments
AIUFWP submits letter LoP Rahul Gandhi, calls for action as forest rights remain in limbo
CJP Team -
AIUFWP urges Congress leader and LoP Rahul Gandhi to intervene as tribals face eviction, harassment, and bureaucratic neglect
CJP submits objections to Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, 2024 over serious threats to civil liberties
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Broad definitions and unchecked police authority could criminalise dissent, CJP cautions
Mass Deforestation, Protests, Detentions: Supreme Court halts Telangana’s reckless tree felling at Kancha Gachibowli, questions permissions
Public anger mounts as Telangana authorities bulldoze through Kancha Gachibowli’s tree cover, allegedly violating environmental norms and suppressing protests with detentions and police crackdowns; scrutiny by HC and SC to continue
The Waqf Amendment Bill: A majoritarian assault on minority rights
History will never forget how political parties in democratic...
India Is an Elected Dictatorship Where Constitutionalism Is Under Attack From Within
The challenges of our present discontents are marked by the collapse of the system of checks and balances to discipline constitutional power.
Ram saved RSS-BJP from the brink, will Sitaram rescue the CPI (M)?
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), or for that matter,...
2025: While the world experiences cataclysmic changes, it remains far away from substantial solutions
A lot has happened in the first three months...
Potential of reasoned Collegium resolutions as a starting point for transparency in the Indian higher judiciary
One way ahead out of the recent quagmire is for the higher judiciary, especially the Supreme Court to provide more reasoned public communiques on the decisions for appointments, transfers etc; though not the ideal solution, this would be a step forward
Evolution of the Left [CPI (M)] approach towards Hindutva politics: A Reading of its own documents – Part 3
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Evolution of CPI(M)’s approach towards Hindutva Politics: A Reading of its own documents – Part 2
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The Supreme Court’s May 27, 2026 verdict upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) settles the legal question of constitutional authority but leaves unresolved concerns on absence of due process and independent functioning by the ECI, the arbitrary abuse of process and access: questions of unreasonable and unchecked mass deletions etc.
Rule of Law
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Communalism
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Rule of Law
SC greenlights SIR, upholds ECI’s power to revise electoral rolls
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Farm and Forest
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Communal Organisations
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Outside fringe mobilisation attempted to turn a long-standing local practice into a communal flashpoint
Environment
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Rights
Bhodu Sekh Case: Union agrees before Supreme Court to repatriate deported Bengali-speaking individuals pending citizenship inquiry
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