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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.

JAGLAG Petition to NHRC dated March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016To, Mr Sanjay Jain, Sr. SP National Human Rights...

Letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, March 13, 2016 on Deteriorating Situation in Chhatisgarh

  To Shri Rajnath Singh Honourable Home Minister of India    March 13, 2016    Subject:...

Withdraw Police, Suspend VC, Order Probe: 300 International Academics on HCU

Statement of SolidarityOver 300 International  by Academics, Activists, Artists...

Independent Researcher Bela Bhatia Threatened: Undeclared Emergency in Bastar

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Suspend Appa Rao as VC, Step up Investigations for Violations against Atrocities Act

An independent national fact finding team that visited the...

Why as a Woman and Mother I won’t say, ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’!

  The BJP-RSS propagated idea of “Bharat Mata”- shining, smiling,...

Millions rising to stop male violence: Inspiring Women’s Day March in UK

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“Congratulations Mother, You are now a Mother-in-law for the 17th Time!”

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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While closing the challenge to a withdrawn film title, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that vilifying any community is constitutionally impermissible — even as it robustly defended artistic freedom under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

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

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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