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The Deaths behind India’s Cleanliness
India has progressed technologically, legislated against manual scavenging, and constitutionally abolished untouchability. Yet, in the twenty-first century, caste still determines who enters a sewer. The persistence of manual scavenging...
Journalist detained, communally abused and questioned by UP police
Omar Rashid, a correspondent with The Hindu was picked up with his friend and activist Robin Sharma who was beaten up in custody
A peek into the right-wing’s playbook of hate
How supremacist forces create bogeymen and perpetuate a climate of fear
After Mumbai; Nagpur, Pune and Kurla show the way against CA, NPR-NRC
Nagpur witnessed the largest protest with more than 1 lakh people joining in
They came wearing clothes of harmony: Mumbai’s Dec 19
An eyewitness account of Mumbai's historic 2019 rally at August Kranti Maidan.
Police attacks peaceful protesters including women at Delhi Gate, 32 detained
Image Courtesy: TOIIn a continued brutal crackdown on any...
Adityanath’s UP launched a brutal crackdown on HR defenders, Muslims: #anti-CAA, anti-NRC-NPR
Habeas Corpus filed to trace whereabouts of Mohd Shohaib, S. Darapuri. Even as the DGP confirmed the deaths of six protesters with 14 being injured. As we go to press, however, unconfirmed reports however indicated that as many as 14 persons may have lost their lives
“Govt open to suggestions about CAA”: BJP Official events as police cracks down in Delhi, UP
Keeping the protests in mind, ally LJP writes to BJP to have a re-discussion about the CAA
BJP deletes Amit Shah’s comment about NRC from its Twitter handle
Is this the first step towards backing off from the implementation of the CAA and NRC?
Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019: The Fire that consumes India
Image Courtesy: hindustantimes.com“..the foreign races in Hindusthan must either...
JMM’s Hemant Soren files complaint against Jharkhand CM for casteist slur
The BJP had earlier filed a complaint against Soren and Priyanka Gandhi for insulting the sentiments of Hindus
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