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‘Serious Grievances’: Bombay HC backs students’ concerns, MPSC protests continue in Pune
Bombay High Court directs Maharashtra government to explain recruitment backlog and restore trust; two of three protest sites remain occupied, with Rohit Pawar-led agitation refusing to move
A 2020 Report of Victims of Incarceration: Student activists harassed, arrested
Remember how we witnessed a complete crackdown by the Delhi police on students protesting the unconstitutional CAA 2019 and proposed all India NRC and NPR? A SabrangIndia series tracks how these dynamic students have thereafter been charged with serious offences under counter-terror legislation on ground of ‘causing’ the Delhi violence of 2020
Farmers lament Centre’s vague and nonspecific letter for talks
Let down by the central government’s unimpressive letter for talks on December 30, farmer leaders assert their demands and discuss future protests
Gujarat HC takes suo motu cognisance of mid-day meal survey
The High Court has issued notices to the principal secretary of education department and the commissioner of mid-day meal scheme
Anti CAA protesters get bail: Mumbai
Twenty-nine activists, lawyers, students, artists, academicins and civilians appeared...
Centre agrees to meet farmers on December 30, end of stalemate?
Two days after farmer leaders sent their proposal, the central government agrees to talk to farmers on December 30 instead of December 29.
A 2020 Report of Victims of apathy: People of Assam
How this year, the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown and floods, further added to the misery caused by the citizenship crisis, and impacted the lives of ‘others’
Gujarat: Dalit lawyer dies after being assaulted in a casteist attack
Local residents allegedly harassed and verbally abused the 65-year-old lawyer before calling more people to attack him
Mehmood Pracha’s office raid a “pressure tactic” by Police: Delhi Riot victims
Victims of Delhi violence came out in solidarity with the lawyer, revealing attempts to harass and intimidate them by the Delhi police
UP’s Love Jihad law completes one month, 35 incarcerated
Since its promulgation, more than one arrest per day has been recorded taking the tally to around 35
Farmers’ movement: UP Govt using police to intimidate protesters?
As farmers organisations have promised rising participation from protesting farmers from Uttar Pradesh, the Adityanath regime uses the state police to verify this participation and “address their grievances”
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‘Serious Grievances’: Bombay HC backs students’ concerns, MPSC protests continue in Pune
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Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai
Students who marched from Nashik are denied Azad Maidan protest, prevented from leaving Tilak Bhavan and forcefully transported out of the city
India
Scrap SIR, Restore Electoral Integrity: A national call to defend the right to vote
Public assembly demands the scrapping of SIR, accountability of the Election Commission and urgent safeguards against wrongful exclusion from electoral rolls
India
Why Majoritarianism today is the single most acute threat to democracy
Majoritarianism that plagues India and many other democracies is the perversion of Dr. Ambedkar’s idea of democracy. While Dr. Ambedkar’s definition of democracy lays stress on effective and proportionate representation and safeguarding minority rights, majoritarianism is the dominance of a particular religious community, caste group, or racial group over the rest of the population.
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
From Nashik to Mumbai: Adivasi students’ protest meets police detentions
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Communalism
‘Free the Temple’, ‘Protect the Faith’, ‘Take Up Weapons’: How September’s festivals became stages for anti-Muslim hate
From contested places of worship to demographic fearmongering, a series of speeches used Hindu religious identity to construct Muslims as an existential threat and recast exclusion as religious defence
India
Karnataka: SIR Interrogated
A report, The SIR Investigation Report—A Narrative of Betrayal and Tears was released by the Anti-SIR Alliance and the Citizens’ Vote Protection Committee today; the report documents the (mal) implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka
India
‘Solidarity Is Not a Crime’: Mumbai activists protest alleged police harassment over Palestine event
Indian People in Solidarity with Palestine members gather at Azad Maidan after police search activist Harshada’s home in connection with a kite-flying programme for Palestinian children
