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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
“How long will or can the moon be caged, hum dekhenge…”
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No objection to Siddique meeting his lawyer: UP gov’t to SC
The Supreme Court while hearing a habeas corpus petition moved by KUWJ to release Siddique Kappan, had asked the State to file its response
Why is the government evicting senior artists during the pandemic?
You call us cultural legends, ambassadors but are unable to house some 20 of us: Eminent artists tell government to reconsider eviction orders
Govt aims to eliminate manual scavenging by August 2021
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Editors Guild writes to Assam CM on safety and protection of working journalists in the state
Letter comes in the wake of growing targeting of the media in the north east, EGI had written a similar letter to UP CM Adityanath recently
Tablighi Jamaat news reportage: SC slams Centre’s shoddy counter-affidavit
The I&B Ministry had filed an affidavit in response to PILs moved against the communalisation of the Tablighi Jamaat event in news media
Tablighi Jamaat: Delhi Court upholds discharge of 44 foreign nationals
The court found the evidence to be insufficient to charge the foreign nationals
Delhi High Court takes Kejriwal govt to task
Court asks Delhi CM, "Why did you not wake up when you saw the situation deteriorating?"
NRC exclusion causes Assam man to flee, wife contemplates suicide!
SabrangIndia's sister organisation CJP is now helping Zabbar Ali's the impoverished family defend his citizenship, so that they can all be reunited
J&K to implement Forest Rights Act by March 2021
This comes as a huge relief to forest dwelling communities who have been subject to eviction for years
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