Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
Funds Withheld, Futures on Hold: Dalit, OBC, Minority students face scholarship crisis amidst delays and cuts
A sudden funding freeze leaves dozens of marginalised students in limbo, exposing deepening cracks in the government’s commitment to educational justice
IIT-B bars students from “anti-national” activities
DoSA issues advisory over email guidelines for acceptable behavior which include a ban on “undesirable activities
IIT-B holds Tiranga rally to strengthen unity and create awareness against CAA-NPR-NRC
The students and other participants carried a 1000-ft long flag during the procession
A letter that should shake our world: Dalit scholar suicide triggers outrage
First Published on: January 18, 2016Rohith (right) carrying a...
Students of UBKV and Trinamool Chhatra Parishad accuse BJP of violence
The students allege that the attack on them was similar to the one at JNU
Rohith Vemula March: The Caste Turn for Student Delhites?
First published on February 23, 2016Rohith Vemula gives them...
Calling Smriti Irani’s Bluff: Twisted Truths in Parliament
First published on February 25, 2016Goebbels was an interesting...
At the Pyre of Caste Hatred: Dalit suicides and the Media
First Published on February 3, 2016 This article was written...
Maha seeks to implement Delhi education model for civic schools
Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar praise efforts of the AAP seeking to replicate the success of the same in Maharashtra
JNU Teachers refuse to resume work unless VC resigns
The VC’s retention has made matter worse for the University’s administration and students’ academics and future are at stake
University Campus or Cantonment?
In the mid-seventies, when I came to Delhi University...
Trending
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
India
Indian Muslims need to be protected as much from the communalism of their co-religionists as majoritarian communalism: In remembrance of CM Naim
An intrepid critique of entrenched and entitled Muslim elites, CM Naim, a historian and essayist, recently passed away at 85. Here his work is remembered for its out of the box thinking and commitment to both the culture and language around Urdu; an essay that recalls his works
Communalism
Delhi Court sentences riots accused for promoting hatred against Muslims, sentences him to 3 years in custody
Lokesh Kumar Solanki convicted for inciting violence during 2020 Delhi riots; court calls his conduct “fuel to already simmering tensions” but releases him citing maximum sentence already served
Rights
Harassment by Delhi Police, blatant extortion & human rights’ violation in process of identification of “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants”: Brinda Karat to HM Amit Shah
Brinda Karat, former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-CPIM), has in a letter to the union home minister, Amit Shah highlighted the blatant violation of human rights, harassment and extortion, in the ongoing process of "identification of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants" by the Delhi police and other agencies.
Labour
Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states
Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer
Children
Thane School Horror: Principal, attendant arrested for forcing girls to strip in menstruation check, case registered under POCSO
Girls as young as 10 were allegedly stripped and subjected to invasive checks by school staff in Thane’s Shahapur after bloodstains were found in a washroom, prompting arrests, protests, and charges under POCSO and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
Politics
Bihar: SC signals that ECI should consider Aadhaar, EPIC (Voter ID card) & Ration card for electoral roll revision
Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the sudden “special intensive revision” being conducted in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court (SC) pressed ECI to include Aadhaar, Voter ID Card, and Ration cards in Bihar's electoral roll revision process, since the only concern for the constitutional body was establishing accurate identity not citizenship
Rights
Mumbai’s Second Lifeline in ICU: Mumbaikars respond to call of “Save BEST”
By deliberately running Mumbai’s unique and stellar public transport system to ‘die’, the BMC backed by a land-grabbing state government is set to make transport even more unafordable for working Mumbaikars
Politics
Dissent Note: Maharashtra Special Public Safety Bill, 2024
Sweeping powers, vague definitions, and silencing of dissent entrenched in law; deliberative process exposed as political theatre