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Thirty years on, justice remains elusive for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana

A chapter in a major 30-year review of the PoA Act argues that institutional failures, rather than legislative gaps, remain the biggest obstacle to justice

Learn How to Counter Hate from Furqan and His Children

Hindu-Muslim relations are a natural bulwark against communal crusade.  There...

India Not a Hindu Rashtra, Say Sikh Organisations

So many Sikh ideologues have clearly stated that each...

The Blatant Omission of Muslims in ‘New India’

After Kashmir and NRC, the community’s trust in the...

To Be or Not to Be: The Identity Crisis of the Non-Savarna Indian

While for the Savarna Indian, to be without identity...

Mahatma Gandhi on Caste: the Varna-Ashrama System

To Gandhi, the rigid ‘varna’ system and the social...

‘Raven’: The new art of protest from the land of Sahodaran Ayyappan

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Manual Scavenging still on: How Swachh is GOI’s conscience?

On October 2, 2014, the Government of India launched the...

‘Check Aadhaar card to keep out Non-Hindus’: Bajrang Dal to Garba organisers

Asked Garba and Dandiya organisers in Hyderabad to make...

SC/ST Act dilution row: Apex court allows review of previous judgement

In a shot in the arm for rights of...

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