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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
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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