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Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law

Through this detailed critique and legal analysis of the hastily enacted Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 (Maharashtra Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam 2026), CJP shows how it is both a serious intrusion on personal liberty, autonomous choice and religious freedoms but also gives a weapon to state agencies like the police to, along with other actors, become vigilantes into personal lives and behaviour

Over 600 farmers struggle participants martyred so far

The week preceding farmers Bharat Bandh, farmers said that 605 people had died while participating in the farmers struggle.

Farmer mobilisation continues even after Bharat Bandh!

SKM leaders congratulate Monday’s participants in the Bharat Bandh for keeping the movement going

Kisan Bharat Bandh: Mainstream media whines about “traffic jams”, social media presents true picture

The tone and tenor of the reportage, and the recurring self contradiction, says a lot about the state of the news media in India

Highlights of September 27 Bharat Bandh

Nationwide strike successful - SKM's call receives huge response from farmers, workers, trade and students unions

Art and Revolution: Top 10 posters from the Bharat Bandh

SabrangIndia picks out 10 posters that portray the strength of Monday’s nationwide strike called by farmers' and worker' groups

Podcast: A Year of Kisan Andolan

Amidst a global pandemic, India's peasantry has voiced its demands worldwide. As the SKM prepares for another Bharat Bandh on September 27, 2021 Sabrang India team sits down and looks back at the last year.

Wider “WE” is Witness!

A significant section of society has now become ‘Us and Them’; the tendency is to exclude the other

SKM calls upon citizens to join us on Bharat Bandh

Farmers calls upon every Indian to join Bharat Bandh on Monday

Karnataka: Dalit family fined Rs 25,000 for ‘purification ritual’ after toddler runs into temple 

Days later, police register case under the SC/ST prevention of atrocities Act, arrest five

Over 1.28 lakh cases of crime against children in 2020, yet there is eerie silence on issue 

Horrific details of the Dalit child’s rape and murder in Delhi crematorium by priest emerge, news of another child raped in Rajasthan reported

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