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Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker

It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.

NHRC Holds 2007 Salwa Judum Ops to Account, issues Notice to Chhattisgarh

As India's Statutory Human Rights Body Calls the Central...

Bangladesh tops South Asia in gender equality

Bangladesh ranked 72nd last year  File photo: Women entrepreneurs at...

Notes on a Feminist Crowdsourced List of Sexual Harassers

In the wake of the extreme disagreements we have...

Why #metoo is an impoverished form of feminist activism, unlikely to spark social change

Using the hashtag #metoo, thousands of women around the...

Samajwadi Party fields transgender Gulshan Bindu as mayor candidate in Ayodhya

Samajwadi Party has declared its list of candidates for...

It’s not just O’Reilly and Weinstein: Sexual violence is a ‘global pandemic’

The recent exposure of widespread sexual predation in the...

Feminists uneasy over Facebook campaign to “Name and Shame”

As feminists, we have been part of a long struggle...

India’s first transgender Sarpanch vows to turn her village into an ideal village

A village in interior Maharashtra creates historyGnyaneshwar Kamble with...

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Over 180 attacks were reported across India, with a concentration in five northern and central states—Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. Of these, 66 incidents (36.66%) can be directly linked to hate crimes justified as ‘revenge’ for the Pahalgam attack. This unique visualisation report by CJP presents post-Pahalgam (April 22) hate crime data in a new, accessible format

The contested interpretation of the Immigrant Expulsion from Assam Act, 1950

The IEAA, 1950, the Foreigners Act, 1946 and orders thereto have to be read harmoniously with Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955: the former is a mere means of identification to be followed by adjudication by Foreigner’s Tribunals; hence the Supreme Court had emphasised following due process on the issue of deportation