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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...
Assam gov’t makes sanitary napkins mandatory in factories
The decision was taken in the Assam cabinet meeting, chaired by CM Sarbananda Sonowal, to promote women’s hygiene
Sansad Gherao in Delhi for Forests Rights
Exclusive from Delhi today, thousands of people have come together for the November 21, 2019 Sansad Gherao in Delhi. The Bhumi Adhikar Andolan, a forest rights collective and many more organisations have come together to protest and take the discussion on Forests Rights, the violations of people’s rights and dilution of Forest Rights Act 2006 to the people.
Mariam – Forest Rights Activist giving women a voice in a patriarchal discourse
The Right to a Voice Revisited - Van Gujjar Women & Intersections of Community Mobilization - Elizabeth Kuroyedov
In Odisha’s Residential Schools For Tribal Girls, Education Comes At A Cost
Momita Batra (left) and Karma Mandali, both aged 14,...
UN Committee Takes Stock of the Status of Child Rights on World Children’s Day
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN-CRC)...
Kashmir Chamber seeks to sue Govt. as economic losses reach a billion dollars
The Modi-led Indian Govt. revoked its autonomy and statehood in August after the abrogation of Article 370
Ramdev insults Periyar, calls followers ‘ideological terrorists’
Dalit organizations ask him to leave the country or tender unconditional apology
States Dither As Displaced Chhattisgarh Tribals Seek Land Rights In Andhra, Telangana
More than 30,000 Adivasis from Chhattisgarh fled the Salwa...
UP’s dis-honourable dad kills daughter for loving the ‘wrong’ man
22-year-old woman killed over relationship with a man who belonged to the same caste in a crime curiously dubbed ‘honour’ killing
Karnataka dairy farmers in distress as Bamul officials refuse to collect milk
Dairy farmers from Agara village in Kanakapura taluk are facing steep losses and an uncertain future as they have been allegedly prevented from supplying milk to the Karnataka Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited (KMF) since Saturday night.
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Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12
Nearly 1.94 crore (19.4 million) enumeration forms digitised during SIR; over 20 lakh electors categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), Voters whose names are missing from the draft can file claims for inclusion till September 12, even as complaints on social media during the enumeration phase highlighted difficulties faced by electors
Communalism
When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat
From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands
India
Maharashtra SIR: 2.08 crore (20.8 million) voter forms “uncollected” hence may not be listed in August 24 draft electoral roll
More than 1 in 5 voter enumeration forms have remained “uncollected” on the final day of Maharashtra’s SIR exercise, with urban districts accounting for a large share of those bureaucratically “excluded”-- nearly 95 lakh forms were uncollected in Thane, Mumbai and Pune, though voters left out of the draft will get a month to seek inclusion or correction
Minorities
Jharkand government accused of continued communal lynchings by fact-finding team
The fact-finding team that comprised representatives of Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha, Karwan e Mohabbat, Sajha Kadam and United Milli Forum has demanded that both the family of the deceased (lynched) man and victim survivor be provided protection and an impartial probe be conducted
India
Sumit Sarkar: Engaged scholarship, ways of historical thinking, an enduring legacy
Scholar of modern India with a path breaking approach to research and his discipline, historian Sumit Sarkar transformed how modern Indian history was understood, bringing ordinary people and their experiences to the centre of historical scholarship
Gender and Sexuality
When Family Becomes Custody: Allahabad HC holds adult women’s faith, residence and liberty cannot be placed under parental control
Holding that an alleged unlawful conversion cannot become a licence for private confinement, the Court separates the legality of religious conversion from the legality of detention—and holds the father and Uttar Pradesh State jointly liable for ₹25 lakh in constitutional compensation
India
‘How Can Rehabilitation Work If We Are Not Safe?’ Sanjay Tickoo on the fresh threat to Kashmiri Pandit employees
Sanjay Tickoo speaks to Sabrang India on repeated threats, targeted killings and security lapses have eroded Kashmiri Pandit employees’ faith in the State.