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Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law

Through this detailed critique and legal analysis of the hastily enacted Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 (Maharashtra Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam 2026), CJP shows how it is both a serious intrusion on personal liberty, autonomous choice and religious freedoms but also gives a weapon to state agencies like the police to, along with other actors, become vigilantes into personal lives and behaviour

Yatra against CAA-NPR-NRC: From Delhi to Assam’s Goalpara detention centre

Social activists from various organizations will launch a yatra starting February 22 to March 2 in solidarity with those forced to live in detention camps

Picture of two Elderly Women at Shaheen Bagh, is worth thousand words

Divided by class and privilege, but united by compassion and patriotism

Draped in yellow, Malerkotla rises against the CAA-NPR-NRC

The women, students and farmers in the town are planning for a mega rally against the CAA-NPR-NRC on February 16

Never-the-less, she persisted: The true meaning of Mumbai Bagh

Another group of women protesters who refuse to back down are taking a hostile regime head on with decidedly peaceful means.

Growing tensions against NPR-NRC halt Census work: WB

The recent mob attack on a volunteer collecting information for an NGO have made teachers to be chosen for the Census exercise anxious

Illegal and inhuman: Child rights groups condemn Bidar police’s investigation of children

They condemned the interrogation of children and the charges of sedition slapped on parent and authorities

Uber driver drags pro-democracy poet to cops: Nexus to build climate of fear?

Bappaditya Sarkar tells us about the chilling encounter where driver gave him a dire warning, and police asked him about his finances suspecting links to left wing extremists

Gujarat’s sleepy Modasa wakes up to women protesting the CAA-NPR-NRC

The rally in the town of Gujarat saw thousands of women decry the fascist policies of the government

TISS SU demands immediate release of student Kris Chudawala

The Students' Union condemns the government and media for their bias against queer individuals and portraying Kris as anti-national

16 Religious congregations denounce CAA

Statement by representatives of groups working with marginalized people calls CAA unconstitutional and counter-productive to SDG 16.

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Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law

Through this detailed critique and legal analysis of the hastily enacted Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 (Maharashtra Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam 2026), CJP shows how it is both a serious intrusion on personal liberty, autonomous choice and religious freedoms but also gives a weapon to state agencies like the police to, along with other actors, become vigilantes into personal lives and behaviour

Telangana: Safeguard lakhs of Hamali workers, set by welfare board, citizens groups

Different sections of citizens in Telangana and organisations too have in a pithy letter to the Telangana Chief Minister urged the constitution of a Hamali Welfare Board to safeguard the interests of lakhs of Hamali Workers across the state, as per law and in consonance with the Congress Party Manifesto

Delhi, Mumbai: Media organisations sharply criticise UNI eviction

The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), the Editors’ Guild of India and the Mumbai Press club have sharply condemned the executive overreach that ordered the Delhi police to violently evict the staff of the UNI on March 20, 2026

Denigration of martyrs like Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev – a peep into RSS archives

On the 95th anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, March 23, 2026, historian Shamsul Islam dives deep into RSS archives to show how this organization has historically denounced the movements led by these revolutionaries

The Siege of Faith: A year-long analysis of the persecution and otherisation of Christians in India

An examination of systemic hostility across states—where anti-conversion laws, administrative complicity, and media dilution normalised discrimination

Proposed Amendments to Gujarat Marriage Registration Rules Unconstitutional: NAJAR, NAPM

Members of National Alliance for Justice, Accountability and Rights (NAJAR - Gujarat) - a pan Indian collective of progressive lawyers and law professionals and the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM Gujarat), along with many civil society organisations of the state have strongly objected to the proposed amendments to the Gujarat Registration of Marriages Rules, 2006, notified on February 20, 2026

Withdraw the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 NOW!

Sexual minority coalitions across the country and civil liberties groups have strongly opposed the 2026 Amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill that dilutes and nullifies the 2019 law