Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
51st Anniversary of Emergency in India: While the RSS supported the Emergency, it now ruthlessly presides over an ‘undeclared Emergency’
The RSS shakha, well documented for its recounting of a manipulated history has, over past decades laid claims to being part of the wider democratic struggle against the Emergency; archival documents from independent sources, civil servants and writers, as also its own archive clearly document otherwise.
T.Nagi Reddy On Adivasis And Their Struggles- Recalling Srikakulam Girijana Peasant Revolt 50 Years Later
Legendary communist revolutionary leader Tarimela Nagi Reddy (TN) died...
The Cunning of Caste
With Independence Day right around the corner, the Indian Cultural...
Faiz’s poems reverberate contemporary pathos: Turbulent and marked with historical changes
Faiz Ahmed Faiz – the poet, teacher, editor, freedom-fighter,...
Religious Riots and their Solution: 1927
Translated from the original in PanjabiThe essay ‘DharmvarFasadTeunha...
Hurt and Longing in Kashmir
Snow-capped mountains, lush green forests and majestic waterfalls –...
The Mechanism of Caste
With Independence Day only five weeks away, the Indian Cultural...
Fact Check: The RSS Had No Role in India’s Freedom Struggle
If there were any doubts at the proto fascist...
Memories of Colonial Brutality: Irfan Habib on the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
On April 13, 1919, the British government indiscriminately shot...
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
Rule of Law
Public Purpose and Places of Worship: Allahabad HC’s Dalmandi verdict
Upholding the State's power to acquire religious sites for infrastructure, the ruling reshapes the legal contours of the Places of Worship Act
Rights
Documentary Burden beyond proof: Gauhati HC upholds foreigner declaration
Upholding the Tribunal's findings, a recent Gauhati Court judgment reflects the exacting evidentiary demands of Foreigners Tribunal proceedings amid evolving constitutional safeguards
Rule of Law
Dara Singh, convicted in string of 1999 communal killings, likely set for release by August 15
State board cites “good behaviour”; final release order awaits government action ahead of the SC deadline
Hate Speech
Brinda Karat seeks review of SC verdict in Thakur-Verma hate speech case
Plea argues the Court wrongly held no cognisable offence was made out without a merits hearing
Rights
SC: Reasoned & Fair adjudication by Foreigners Tribunals, a must for proving citizenship
The Court held that declarations of foreigner status must follow meaningful notice, proper appreciation of evidence and a reasoned decision, even where proceedings are ex-parte
Communalism
For Gujarat Police, Beard, Niqab Make ‘Radicalisation’ Checklist, Cow Vigilantism Doesn’t
The SOP was circulated as part of the police’s newly operationalised Anti-Radicalisation Cell.
India
EC’s new online Form 6 requirement raises questions over procedure and legality
The Election Commission has introduced a new parental declaration in the online version of Form 6, requiring fresh applicants to disclose whether their parents appeared in the last Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The change is not been reflected in the statutory Form 6 prescribed under the Registration of Electors Rules
Politics
PRC, SIR and a BJP Hawk Shobha Karandlaje!
BJP’s fake nationalism and congress’s half-hearted response