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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

Why Dalits are turning against the BJP

With Hindutva baring its anti-Dalit fangs, the BJP is...

11 महीने में 17 कॉटन मिलें बंद, ‘मेक इन इंडिया’ को चुनौती

‘मेक इन इंडिया’ और उद्योगों को बढ़ावा देने के...

Mahasweta Devi among First to Appeal to President Narayan on Gujarat 2002 Massacres

  Acclaimed writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi who tied...

Dalit Bahujan Musings: Dilip Mandal

July 22-27, 2016 (Facebook Musings) Forcing Persons Into Manholes is...

लेखिका अनिता भारती को मिलेगा सावित्रीबाई फुले वैचारिकी अवार्ड

दलित लेखिका अनिता भारती को सावित्रीवाई फुले वैचारिकी अवार्ड...

Kashmir, Summer 2016: Angana Chatterji

In 2011, I had written an essay on Kashmir...

Turkey and the failed coup – God′s gift to Erdogan

The military coup in Turkey only strengthens Erdogan's power...

“Why Should a Military Be Deployed Against Its Own People”: Lalita Ramdas

Wife of ex-Indian Naval Chief, Admiral Ramdas, Lalita,  writes this searching...

Lying about Kashmir with old videos

When channels air old footage to tarnish demonstrators, they...

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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

From Civil Registration to Identity Control: Parliament tightens India’s birth certificate regime without debate

A quiet amendment shifts delayed birth and death registrations from executive officers to judicial magistrates, further hardening India's identity regime while offering little evidence that the new barriers are necessary

‘Deportation Cannot Begin without Nationality Verification’: Union’s Rajubala affidavit clarifies legal limits on executive power

In an affidavit filed in the Rajubala Das case, the Union reaffirms that deportation requires nationality verification, travel documents and acceptance by the receiving State, while setting out the legal framework governing detention pending deportation

Brij Bhushan Acquittal: The system vs the wrestlers

Three years after their protest shook Indian sport, Vinesh Phogat and other wrestlers prepare for another legal battle over a verdict they reject