Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
The Double Stage: Caste’s Schizophrenic Modernity between Spectacle and Shadow
Caste from the pre-modern, colonial to the post-Republican; this analysis draws from, among others, works by Nicholas Dirks (2001), Anand Teltumbde (2014) and Gopal Guru (2016) to map this transition showing that contemporary caste should be best understood as a sort of social schizophrenia driven by imaginative acts whereby power perpetuates itself through a convoluted hermetic legitimising act in India.
I am in Self-Imposed House Arrest After Being Attacked: Kancha Iliah Shepherd
The Hindu reports that intrepid academic Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd's...
Has Gauri Lankesh, in her Martyrdom propelled India to Rethink and Rebuild democracy?
Gauri Lankesh, State, and Civil Society To state the obvious...
Whither Truth? Demand Narmada Evacuees, Challenging the CM, Gujarat & PM Modi
Sabrang -
Badwani, Madhya Pradesh | September 15, 2017: The statement...
Time for Akhara ‘certified’ Babas?
For a law against Superstition at the National LevelThese...
What is Social Smuggling by Sahukars (Traders)? asks Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Amit Shah Gets Bouquets for Calling Gandhi a Chatur...
Will India’s SC Stop Rohingyas from Being Deported?
Described as arguably the world's most persecuted minority, even...
Fifty Years & Fighting: A Not So Brief History of the Narmada Bachao Struggle
50 years ago, when the Sardar Sarovar Dam was...
NEET: An Exam only for Elites
NEET only favours those students who come from elite...
President Kovind, India’s 2nd Dalit President Won’t Present Teachers Day Awards Today
Newsreports state that, breaking from tradition, it will be...
Open Letter to the President of India from former Chief of Indian Navy, Admiral L Ramdas
"Values and traditions, built and nurtured over nearly seven...
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
Rights
Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!
Move comes days before Supreme Court hearing in habeas corpus petition filed by his wife; Ladakh activist had been detained following September 2025 protests over statehood and Sixth Schedule protections
Minorities
Allahabad High Court orders 24/7 armed protection for Bareilly Muslim man allegedly prevented from offering namaz at home
Summoning the district magistrate and SSP of Bareilly, the Allahabad High Court said any violence against the petitioner or his property would be presumed to have occurred at the instance of the State, as the case raises serious concerns over interference with religious prayers inside private property
Rights
35 civil society groups oppose Maharashtra’s proposed anti-conversion law, warn of threat to women’s autonomy and constitutional freedoms
Coalition, which also included CJP who is the lead petitioner on challenge to anti-conversion laws in SC, demands draft bill be made public, calls for consultations and legislative scrutiny; says existing criminal law already addresses coercion
Communalism
Odisha: 18 months, 54 incidents of communal hate crimes, 7 mob lynchings
Admitting to a spiral in communally driven hate crimes in eastern state of Odisha since June 2024 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a majoritarian outfit came to power, Odisha’s chief minister, Charan Majhi said on Monday, March 9 that 54 such incidents and seven mob lynchings were recorded in that state; this was in a written reply to the State Assembly
India
Varanasi, UP: No to war, we want peace
A vibrant protest and silent hunger strike (maun upwas) was undertaken by citizens of Varanasi protesting US-Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran; the protest took place at the symbolic Ambedkar Park on Saturday, March 7, under the banner of Sanjha Sanskriti Manch
India
Why Cricket should remain above religious nationalism
The sight of the captain of the victorious Indian T-20 team, Surya Kumar Yadav, jubilantly accompanying ICC Chairman Jay Shah to a temple in Ahmedabad has drawn sharp comments on social media.
India
A history that teaches, a historian that shared, in Memoriam: Professor K.N. Panikkar
On March 9, 2026, a Monday, noted historian and alumni of the indomitable Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), K.N.Panikkar, passed away at a hospital in Thiruvanthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala. Born on April 26, 1936, KN as he was fondly known by fellow academics and activists alike, was one of the pioneers of the Marxist school of historiography
World
US-Israel War on Iran sees spirals in Hate against Muslim Americans: CSOH
The Centre for the Study of Organised Hate has analysed how Islamophobic discourse has spiralled post February 28 when the US-Israel launched an attack on Iran