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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.

Jamiat Launches a Law Institute to Defend Muslim Personal Law

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Give us bread or Give us Death : Uttar Pradesh workers scream!

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Menstruation is sacred, allow entry of women into Sabarimala, says Kerala BJP leader K Surendran

The politician also expressed support for state Chief Minister...

For African-American families, a daily task to combat negative stereotypes about hair

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The Surrogacy Debate and the Missing ART Bill

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Invoking the Constitution to Save Muslim Law Unwise and Erroneous

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‘The Assembly is not a place for religious discourses’

Image: Keshav Singh/HT Photo The CPI(M) has taken a serious...

Bombay HC Order on Haji Ali Has Opened a Floodgate

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JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed

Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

Policing Identity: Maharashtra’s birth certificate crackdown and the politics of belonging

What is framed as an administrative clean-up of fraudulent records in Maharashtra has unfolded into a securitised campaign in Mumbai — raising urgent constitutional questions about due process, discrimination, and the weaponisation of civil documentation

A Republic Must Tolerate Art — But Not Denigration: Supreme Court reasserts fraternity as a constitutional boundary

While closing the challenge to a withdrawn film title, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that vilifying any community is constitutionally impermissible — even as it robustly defended artistic freedom under Article 19(1)(a), striking a careful balance between dignity and dissent in a 75-year-old Republic

Hegemony: Kerala’s Bharatapuzha as a political stage

Unlike the North Indian Kumbh, the Bharatapuzha by contrast has never functioned as a Pan-Hindu pilgrimage centre. It has no historical association with mass ritual bathing, no priestly networks that regulate sacred time, and no inherited mythological mandate that binds the river to cyclical purification rites. The introduction of the Maha Magha Mahotsavam is a clear cultural imposition by Hindutva

JNU: Former JNUSU President complains against Vice Chancellor’s casteist & racist remarks

Two complaints, one by former JNUSU president, Dhananjay and the second BY Suraj Kumar Baudh, an activist, take on Santishree D. Pandit, Vice-Chancellor of JNU for her recent casteist and racist comments

From Permanent Refuge to Perpetual Limbo: Why Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain without citizenship even as electoral assurances reshape belonging in Bengal

Four decades after the 1983 exodus, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain classified as foreigners despite generations of residence in India — even as citizenship becomes a visible electoral assurance in Bengal through CAA-linked mobilisation