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‘Designed to Exclude’: The ongoing enumeration phase of the SIR

In a multi-state report on the hasty and ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being conducted by the ECI, the PUCL has, echoing what opposition parties and other civil rights groups been stating, called it ‘designed to excluide’

Stunned, speechless and ashamed: Lalita Ramdas reacts to NIA comments on Varavara Rao

NIA told Bombay High Court that Rao is trying to take undue advantage of Covid-19 and his old age to seek bail

ISKCON’s sanitised version of the caste system does not foster progress of the lower castes

Even while saying that the caste system is based on psycho-physical properties, it propagates the caste system which must be abolished by the roots

Varavara Rao’ family demands official, and regular health updates

Withholding health updates of a person in judicial custody from his family is illegal, unconstitutional and inhuman, say Rao’s kin

100 days and counting, free Gulfisha Fatima: Activists

End 'Lock-Up' politics during lockdown, state activists in solidarity statement demanding release of all political prisoners

Karnataka’s Brahmins can get caste and income certificates, avail 10 percent EWS benefits

Karnataka State Brahmin Development Board had been set up before 2018 Assembly elections, by JD(S)-Congress govt

Release Varavara Rao, 146 scholars tell Indian Govt

Well known academics from all over the world have written to the Modi Govt to release Poet Varavara Rao, a political prisoner since 2018 who is precariously ill

Covid 19 and furthering of sectarian agenda in education

Chapters on human rights and secularism deleted from curriculum

Only political vendetta can explain Varavara Rao’s incarceration

The revolutionary poet contracted Covid-19 while in jail facing trumped up charges like 'waging war against the nation' 

NHRC demands report on Varavara Rao’s health, jail condition

National Human Rights Commission issues notices to Maharashtra Chief Secretary and Director General (Prisons) seeking report within two weeks

Save his life: Poets and writers appeal to President of India to help Varavara Rao

Rao (79) is suffering from Covid-19, contracted due to abysmal conditions at Taloja jail, says family

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