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The cost of a wrongful deportation

The return of four West Bengal residents after Supreme Court intervention highlights the constitutional consequences of deporting individuals before verifying their citizenship

People’s Tribunal finds “gross violations of human rights norms” in Mangalore

Tribunal report indicts police for harm caused to civilians and innocent persons during anti-CAA protests on December 19

UK MPs express concern about CAA-NPR-NRC in House of Commons

The MPs spoke about the potential disenfranchisement of Muslims and violations of human rights if the CAA-NPR-NRC is implemented

Relentless and Unyielding: Women protestors show how it’s done

Women protestors in Lucknow ask Amit Shah to turn up and remove their ‘misconceptions’ about CAA

Her ‘projected’ father’s daughter

Assam woman declared foreigner due to discrepancy in father’s name

The Many Meanings of Shaheen Bagh

It began as a trickle, with some twenty men...

Indians in US to observe Republic Day as “Day of Action”

The protest by Stop Genocide in India is to be held across 30 US cities to get the Indian govt. to repeal the CAA and NRC

A book fair and its curb on freedom of expression

Chennai Book Fair ends up muzzling fundamental right by preventing free voices from criticising the government

Why a protesting nation needs both dedicated doctors & a transparent medico-legal system

Medical facilities are facing collateral damage in these protests and keeping them stable is imperative to keep the agitation going

Nehtaur, Aligarh, Jamia – how Qurratulain Hyder’s Aag ka Darya imagines India

Image: PTI  It was a day of general holiday in...

CAA-NPR-NRC protests cut across all religious and communal divides

From multi-faith prayers to Sikhs offering langar to protestors at Shaheen Bagh, the CAA-NPR-NRC protests are a show of unity and solidarity

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The cost of a wrongful deportation

The return of four West Bengal residents after Supreme Court intervention highlights the constitutional consequences of deporting individuals before verifying their citizenship

Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books

An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct

Promising Principles Poor Outcomes: What the judicial record on security force accountability actually shows

The Supreme Court has said that AFSPA is not a license to kill, sovereign immunity does not protect the State from liability for custodial death, and rape by a soldier requires no special court. At the same time, the number of armed forces personnel convicted by an ordinary civilian criminal court for rape in a conflict area is, on the available record, low.

The arbitrary detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya: A call for justice

The appeal by the Palestinian Embassy in New Delhi has called on all Indians to support and join the call for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; advocating for the protection of Palestinian healthcare workers, hospitals, ambulances, and medical facilities in accordance with international humanitarian law.

Though sewer deaths have crossed the 100 mark this year, government is silent: SKA

With three deaths on the same day in two different incidents in Madhya Pradesh, 101 people have died so far in sewers and septic tanks across the country in 188 days this year, according the data compiled by Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA). NCR Delhi alone accounts for 12 deaths.

The Battle of Belonging: Why India’s Passport Controversy Matters

A passport is undeniably a travel document, but it is also the republic’s assurance of belonging and sovereign protection in moments of crisis. Reducing it to mere travel facilitation strips it of its civic meaning, since passports are issued not to transients but to members of a political community.

Rajasthan: From Giral to Islampur, how locals are contesting development and historical identity

The author traces similarities of people’s mobilisations in Giral, Barmer and Islampur, Jhunjunu wherein both involve local communities asserting agency against decisions made elsewhere. In Giral, villagers have been robustly protesting the “benefits from mineral extraction in the name of development,” while in Islampur, residents have been questioning the communal (read majoriatrian moves to re-name and thereby, re-define a region’s identity