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UN experts condemn India’s crackdown on youth-led protests, flag 7,000 detentions and alleged sexual abuse
In a strong rebuke of the Modi-led government’s handling of dissent, 24 UN human rights experts have called for an end to excessive force, blanket assembly bans and arbitrary detentions
‘Gauri Day’ Became ‘Gen Z Day’
When a memorial for the slain journalist Gauri Lankesh became a loud and renewed reiteration for more accountability, equality and justice in India
Midnight Arrest, Daylight Questions: Why was Santosh Pandit taken into custody?
From exposing civic failures to confronting political VIPs, the Pune activist built a massive following—now he faces criminal charges after a midnight arrest
Why are reading habits among Indian students declining?
On the occasion of Teacher's Day, Abhay Kumar, a teacher, writes about his experience in academics and the declining habit of reading among students
Kishtwar Minor’s Rape Case: Selective societal outrage and price of being Gujjar in Kashmir
Recent rapes, assaults and deaths of women and girls from Kashmir’s Gujjar and Bakarwal communities, repressed in the region’s social order and relegated to servitude raises serious questions of gender and Adivasi (indigenous) persons right to life, dignity and access to equal health care
The Normalisation of Suicide at IITs: Institutional blindness and failure
The recent protest at the Lecture Hall of IIT Delhi where slogans of “Investigation, Compensation, and Resignation”, were raised by the student collective raises the crucial demand for redistributive justice, firstly demanding that the administration to recognise these deaths as the failure of institutions to recognise structural inequities, denials and cruelties.
Closing of the Indian Mind: Campus subjugation, intellectual mediocrity, & death of democratic assertion
The author, a senior academic analyses the decay in Indian public universities and traces the decline to a state patronage, entrenched, unaccomplished elite and the absence of true representation through student and teacher body elections
His Name Survived SIR. Then Police Took Him Away: The Unexplained Detention of 66-Year-Old Jalil Akhtar
Ground Report (Video Inside) | Akhtar’s family says the 66-year-old has lived in India for generations and possesses voter ID, Aadhaar, ration card and land documents. Yet, they allege, he was taken from home at night on suspicion of being a Bangladeshi national
Maharashtra’s schools are struggling to survive as students protest, infrastructure crumbles and Marathi-medium institutions disappear
From Adivasi students on hunger strike to Class 10 students demanding teachers, government schools without electricity and internet, and hundreds of schools facing the loss of grant-in-aid, Maharashtra’s education crisis is increasingly visible on the streets
‘We Cannot Be Afraid’: Rhiya Ahir in Conversation with Teesta Setalvad
What does it mean to stand beside young people...
Six-year-old detained during Patna teacher aspirants’ protest, parents allege police assault
Patna Police say the child was ‘rescued’ from a potentially dangerous crowd, while his parents allege that the family was taken to a police station, where they were assaulted and kept for nearly seven hours
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