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August 11, 2026: A decade plus of students challenging a regime that seeks to control thought & ideas
The pushback to the Modi 1.0 regime came within months of it being sworn into office, and it emerged from the student of the Central University, Hyderabad & JNU among others, that had been creations of independent India’s intellectual and organisational fashioning; while Gen Z’s 2026 protests are a breath of fresh air to the battle weary, India’s students in universities have never been silent
Not just a farmers struggle, but a fight for democracy: P. Sainath
On Saturday, Magsaysay award winner P. Sainath addressed masses in Patna about the significance of the farmers movement and the three laws opposed by the peasantry
Rohith Vemula’s ‘institutional murder’: Five years on, family and friends still wait for justice
Advocate Raja Vemula, dedicates law degree to brother Rohtih, on his Shahadat Divas, wows to fight for Dalit rights
Manipur journalists booked under UAPA, sedition law
Duo arrested for articles expressing “sympathy and support for ideologies and activities of armed revolutionary groups”
10,000 people assemble at Azad Maidan! Mumbaikars put Centre’s claim to shame
Punjab farmer leaders who travelled to the city for the Saturday event thanked attendees for refuting the ‘only-Punjab-Haryana-protest” narrative of the Government of India.
Farmers organisations begin maintaining record of the fallen
As the death toll reaches 120, volunteers in the farmers’ struggle begin a blog to honour and record the people who had lost their lives during the movement.
Jai Kisan, say veteran jawans now stationed on Delhi’s borders in solidarity with farmers
The armed forces veterans’ presence at the protest sites has added a sense of security, national pride, hundreds come to meet the ‘heroic faujis’.
Jan 15 talks inconclusive: Centre and farmers remain at loggerheads
Farmer leaders said they will not budge from their demand for repeal of the three laws and legalisation of MSP
Defending Human Rights is not terrorism!
100 days behind bars, Fr. Stan Swamy continues to inspire
Covid Vaccination: Are Indians being made guinea pigs?
Efficacy report pending, yet government greenlights use of indigenously developed Covaxin
NIA summons farmers union leader Baldev Singh Sirsa for questioning
Sirsa the president of Lok Bhalai Insaf Welfare Society, says National Investigation Agency action is bid to derail protest
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Education
August 11, 2026: A decade plus of students challenging a regime that seeks to control thought & ideas
The pushback to the Modi 1.0 regime came within months of it being sworn into office, and it emerged from the student of the Central University, Hyderabad & JNU among others, that had been creations of independent India’s intellectual and organisational fashioning; while Gen Z’s 2026 protests are a breath of fresh air to the battle weary, India’s students in universities have never been silent
Minorities
Two FIRs, Four Days In: Pune sees first use of Maharashtra’s controversial anti-conversion law
Pune police invoke the new law against a man accused of targeting a minor and an OCI cardholder accused of religious inducement
India
ID Based on Anonymous Informant, Sudden Reference to 2009 Home Ministry Notification: Why NSA Case Against Satyam Verma Is Unconvincing
When Noida District Magistrate Medha Roopam chose to invoke the stringent law against the journalist, she appears to have based it on her reading of his assumed ability to influence workers – not the facts available.
India
JNU Cancels Venue, Not the Conversation: Umar Khalid’s book discussion moves outdoors amid protests
JNU cited “non-disclosure of full facts” to cancel the auditorium at the last minute; organisers disputed the explanation and students took the discussion outdoors, turning a venue cancellation into a larger battle over academic freedom and dissent
India
SIR Phase 3: 1.58 crore names deleted from draft rolls across 12 States and UTs
Draft electoral rolls covering 13.77 crore electors have been published in 12 of the 16 States and three Union Territories under the third phase of the Special Intensive Revision. Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest number of deletions at 44.89 lakh, while Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu recorded the highest deletion rate at 29.64%
Gender and Sexuality
After NEET protests ended, the battle moved online: Women protesters face threats, doxing and criminalisation
From demands for accountability over a paper leak to attacks on protesters’ identities, the aftermath of the movement raises questions about dissent, gendered harassment and the State’s response to democratic protest