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From Assam’s Soil to Detention and Back: The tragic death of Amzad Ali

Locked up in Matia detention camp despite generations-long roots in Assam, 49-year-old Amzad Ali dies of cancer as authorities ignore medical appeals; family finally lays him to rest in his native village

We Will Not Survive This Disaster: Kashmiri Entrepreneurs As Lockdown

Srinagar and Baramulla: Haji Mohammed Ghani, 74, squatted at...

Raja Dhale: A Renaissance Figure in Dalit Literature and Art

If there is one man who deserves to be...

Dumb and Dumber: Facing Slowdown, Govt Squeezes Expenditure

Rather than spending more, government expenditure by July 2019...

News Behind the Barbed Wire – Voices From Behind Kashmir’s Information Blockade

A two-member team from the Network of Women in...

Years of hard work taken away: DU Professor on Pune police raids without search warrant

Pune Police has been unrelenting in pursuing human rights...

Vaiko moves SC, asks where is Farooq Abdullah?

MDMK chief and Rajya Sabha MP Vaiko has filed...

New sample suggests high pollution off Vadodara effluent channel, ‘requires’ action

Gujarat’s top environmental group Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti (PSS) has...

Stop the McCarthy style witch hunt of Academics and Human Rights Defenders!

The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) condemns the...

Higher education: Online entrance, digital admission add new layers of hurdle for marginalized students

Watching movie “Super 30” not only evoked emotions while...

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