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Deaths, Denials and Delayed Action: The Balaghat crisis

From malnutrition and disease to protests and court intervention, Balaghat’s Adivasi villages reveal a crisis that the administration appears to have recognised only after the deaths became impossible to ignore  

Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh: 5 Dalit children beaten with sticks, with hands tied behind their back, for drinking water from a well

Video of the incident shows a group of people standing mute as the man continues to beat the crying children mercilessly

Infant mortality rate: UP records highest rate for SC at 57.8, Chhattisgarh at 41.6 for ST

Union data inaccurate in assessing health inequalities; worrying statistics highlight urgent need for holistic measures to ensure equitable healthcare access

Celebrating Constitutionality!

Rosary School in Vadodara (Baroda) Gujarat is one of...

Horrifying instances of rape in MP and Mahrashtra, accused booked under POCSO

Reports of two minors have been raped have emerged from Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain and Mumbai’s Jogeshwari.

No country for Dalits: brutal incidents of violence against Dalits in the last week of August

Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra see four Dalits assaulted, 2 murdered in the last week itself.

Tripta Tyagi and Puru, my son

Reflections from a Hindu Indian parent bringing up his son in a white neighbourhood school in north America where joy and sharing not prejudice and hate greeted kids’ return from a long summer break; a shameful comparison with what is happening in parts of India read Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh

Outrageous, hate corrodes UP classrooms

The video of a Muslim boy being beaten up, slapped and humiliated in front of the entire class in a school in Uttar Pradesh, has only shown how much the hate propaganda against the Muslims in India has reached inside our hearts and minds.

The laws against child marriage exist but are not enough

This legal exploration looks at the evolution of the laws on child marriage in India.

Unveiling the Harsh Truth of Child Marriage in India

The article below explores the untenability of the custom and the urgent need for institutional attention and reform

Two pre-med students die by suicide in Rajasthan: NEET

A 17-year-old student from UP was found dead at his rented accommodation in Kota late on Tuesday, June 27, within hours of another student suspected of having died by suicide, taking the number of such cases in Rajasthan’s `private coaching hub to four this month.

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Deaths, Denials and Delayed Action: The Balaghat crisis

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Why Swatantra Bhardwaj is a pawn in our politics

As a fellow Bihari and a native of Darbhanga, my heart goes out to the middle class parents who pawn jewellery and mortgage ancestral property to send their ladlas and ladlis to a big city…

CJP files four complaints over hate speeches at gatherings across Maharashtra

The complaints separately identify the speakers, locations, dates and statements, while urging police authorities to investigate the speeches under applicable criminal law and act in accordance with Supreme Court directions concerning hate speech

‘Subjective Satisfaction’ Cannot Be Built On Conjecture: Allahabad HC quashes NSA detention of Akriti Chaudhary

The Court finds no material linking Chaudhary to the violence that erupted after her arrest, finds the Section 130 BNSS notice prima facie prepared retrospectively, warns that unchecked bureaucratic power could turn Uttar Pradesh into an “Orwellian Dystopia”

Penguin’s Shenanigans

Penguin has repeatedly crossed the line between due diligence and outright censorship. Small publishers, who have a lot more to lose, seem to have more of a spine.