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Decoding the Sathankulam Judgement on Custodial Death – Part 1 – Context of Torture in India

Decoding the Sathankulam Judgement on Custodial Death - Part 1 - Context of Torture in India - Adv. Henri Tiphagne

A Silent Emergency: Farmer suicides surge in Maharashtra amid apathy, debt, and systemic collapse

767 farmers died by suicide in just three months in 2025, yet the state's response remains bureaucratic, inadequate, and dispassionate. A ground-level crisis marked by despair, debt, and denial

As 30 crore workers, farmers join July 9 strike against govt.’s policies, will there be media coverage of the shut down?

Centrally recognised trade unions say workers have supported the 17-point charter of demands of the strike, called against Union Government’s policies

Bordering on illegality? 18 alleged Bangladeshis “pushed back” without due process, Legal challenge filed in High Court

CM Sarma announces fresh deportations and vows to expand the eviction campaign; PIL in Gauhati High Court allege constitutional violations, unlawful detentions, and a pattern of arbitrary expulsions targeting Muslims and marginalised groups

“Even a Murderer Wouldn’t Do This”: Ajith Kumar’s custodial death and Tamil Nadu’s shameful culture of impunity

A 29-year-old temple guard was tortured to death in custody over a flimsy theft allegation with his body bearing 44 injuries, his last hours recorded on video. As Tamil Nadu reels, data shows a damning pattern: custodial deaths rise, convictions remain zero

Justice Deferred: J&K High Court stays repatriation of 63-year-old woman deported after Pahalgam attack, following MHA appeal

Despite a scathing ruling that termed her deportation unconstitutional and inhumane, the Ministry of Home Affairs has secured a stay on a High Court order directing the return of Rakshanda Rashid, a long-time resident and LTV holder, raising urgent concerns about due process, state overreach, and judicial inconsistency

No, India Is Not the Fourth Most Equal Country. Here’s the Real Data

Whichever way one looks at the data, the picture is clear: India is a highly unequal country, and inequality is worsening.

How the Delhi riots case remains stagnant with close to a dozen student leaders incarcerated

A look back at the trajectory of the Delhi Riots case(s), especially the infamous and belatedly registered FIR 59/2020 reveals a litany of procedural and substantive failures, together resulting in the incarceration without bail, for five long years, ten student activists and human rights defenders and one more politician as “accused”

Development or dispossession? 1,188 days of defiance against forced land acquisition in Devanahalli, Karnataka

As Karnataka’s government inches forward with plans to acquire 1,777 acres of fertile farmland for a Defence and Aerospace Park, farmers from 13 villages in Devanahalli, now backed by workers’ unions, Dalit and Muslim groups, intellectuals and scientists, dig in for the final battle. With promises broken and livelihoods at stake, the countdown to July 15 marks a watershed moment in Karnataka’s agrarian history

MoEFCC subverting the Forest Rights Act, 2006: 150 Citizens groups

Over 150 countrywide organisations have in a communication to Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined how the Forest Rights Act, 2006 is being consistently undermined, threatening not just Adivasis but forests and the environment

Deported in Silence: India’s mass expulsions of alleged Bangladeshis without due process

Since May 7, over 2,000 individuals—mostly Bengali-speaking migrants—have been rounded up and covertly deported under Operation Sindoor, a nationwide crackdown bypassing legal safeguards. But a growing backlash from constitutional courts and state governments—especially West Bengal—has begun to challenge the legality, profiling, and human cost of these shadow deportations.

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00:15:55

Decoding the Sathankulam Judgement on Custodial Death – Part 1 – Context of Torture in India

Decoding the Sathankulam Judgement on Custodial Death - Part 1 - Context of Torture in India - Adv. Henri Tiphagne

When History substitutes Governance: Hindutva’s Politics of Manufacturing Pasts

Inventing kings, rebranding dynasties, and fabricating history to mask policy failure and engineer caste-communal politics

Fractured Fault lines: Violence, governance gaps, and rising tensions across Odisha

From church vandalism and communal flashpoints to tribal resistance, welfare exclusions, and political impunity—recent developments point to deepening fault lines in Odisha’s social and administrative landscape

“Inside the SIR”: Booklet flags ‘mechanical disenfranchisement’ in electoral roll revision

CJP–VFD publication combines training manual and ground documentation to question ongoing voter verification exercise

Censorship and the Drumbeats of Hate: Mapping the state of free speech ahead of the 2026 polls

A new report by Free Speech Collective traces five years of censorship, criminalisation of dissent, and the rise of hate-driven political discourse across Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry—raising urgent questions about the conditions for free and fair elections

AERO dies by suicide in Kolkata, family alleges extreme election duty pressure and humiliation

A 48-year-old Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO) died by suicide in South Kolkata’s Bansdroni area after consuming pesticide, the tragic death of Malabika Roy Bhattacharyya has sparked serious concerns regarding the immense pressure placed on government officials tasked with SIR/Election duties, with her family explicitly blaming the ECI for the extreme workload

UP’s syncretic warrior cults facing Hindutva challenge

Be it the attack on the Gogamedi shrine in the Hanumangarh district of northern Rajasthan or the Neja Mela in the Sambhal district of western Uttar Pradesh, Hindutva’s systemic attack on India’s syncretic traditions, past and present, reveals its rigid and Brahmanical ideological orientation: imposition of a strictly hierarchical, exclusionary and structured notion of faith and practice

No Hearing, No Notice, Just Deletion: How Bengal’s SIR Erased a Decorated IAF Officer

The removal of Wing Commander Md Shamim Akhtar, who served the nation for 17 years, during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) highlights a systemic lack of due process that threatens the voting rights of even the most distinguished citizens