Rights

‘We Cannot Be Afraid’: Rhiya Ahir in Conversation with Teesta Setalvad

What does it mean to stand beside young people when they choose to confront power?In this conversation, activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad speaks with Rhiya Ahir, whose act of...

Delhi Police Turns on JNU: Open Lathi Charge on Student-Teacher Long March

#JNULongMarchProtest, was manhandled by both women and men constables...

JNU students and teachers march to Parliament demanding reforms

Students and teachers from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) marched from...

When Indian women negotiate with local authorities to improve their lives in a slum

Women presenting their demands to the elected ward of...

Meagre Funds, No Salary: How Tamil Nadu’s Women Leaders Still Succeed

Nachangulam Panchayat, Sivagangai district (Tamil Nadu): What is it...

Why Adivasis seek to re-assert their traditional identity

‘Adivasi history is an unbroken chain of broken promises’:...

Jamia administration bows down to women hostellers; accepts all their demands

Delhi: The administration of Jamia Millia Islamia accepted all...

How Govts Across India Are Violating Forest Rights

Mumbai: As many as 26 cases across 11 states...

11 sentenced to life imprisonment in the Alimuddin Ansari lynching case

A Jharkhand court has sentenced, 11 people convicted in...

The Battle is Not Over Yet, Say Kisan Leaders From Maharashtra

They categorically mention that AIKS will organize an all...

Fewer Girls Born In Northern, Western And Richer Indian States

  New Delhi: Fewer girls are being born in north...

Trending

Related VIDEOS

ALL STORIES

ALL STORIES

The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

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

The ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ Isn’t a Gen Z Uprising. It’s a Rerun

The demand to “remove reservation” is one of the oldest, most recycled slogans in independent India’s political life, and it has failed, in more or less identical form, every single time it has been tried.

112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.

Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions