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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.

AMU’s misleading statistics hide discrimination against aspiring women undergraduates

Image: Indian ExpressWhat does one say when a prestigious...

When Love is Brutal: Personal Narrative of a Survivor of Domestic Abuse

llustration by Abro / Dawn.comMy reason for writing this...

Justice for Jisha: Why it’s important to Speak Up and be Counted

“Silence is a Crime when Justice is denied”The headlines...

An Iconic Moment: Radhika Vemula Shares the Pain of Rajeshwari, Jisha’s Mother

One struggling mother with another struggling mother seeking Justice:...

Student Protests Against MHRD and VCs Rage On, Hunger Fasts in JNU and Allahabad Enter 11th and 5th Days

As the Indefinite Hunger Strike, at JNU and Allahabad by Student...

Mother’s Day 2016: What the State Owes Mothers, Parents And Women

  Image Credit: Panos    Today is Mother’s Day. As I sit...

How To Get India’s Women Working? First, Let Them Out Of The House

Rohini Pande, Jennifer Johnson & Eric Dodge, IndiaSpend.comImage: Simon...

PM to Meet Jisha’s Mother in Kerala: Sorry, Delta, There Were No Elections in Rajasthan

Delta Meghwal (left); Jisha (right)   Barely 38 days ago, on March...

Jisha’s Death Sparks Countrywide Protests

  The brutal violence meted out to Jisha, a 30...

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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