Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
Understanding power through caste: Dr. Ambedkar’s contribution to the sociology of law
Dr Babasaheb’s understanding of Indian society was pivotal: he was prescient in the dangers that loomed ahead, even after drafting the Indian Constitution; because caste-based inequality remains deeply entrenched in society and the post-Independence state did not go much beyond providing formal equality to the lower castes and other marginalised communities, Dr. Ambedkar was acutely aware of the continuing presence of upper-caste hegemony from society to politics and from culture to the economy
Remembering defender of secularism who died for standing up for people’s unity
This month marks 30 years of the assassination of...
With ‘Clean Up’ Plans around Gyanvapi Masjid, Lakhs Being Siphoned in ‘Compensation’, Activists Fear an ‘Ayodhya’ like Demolition in Varanasi
Anoop Shramik and several citizens have been watching the...
Amidst the Prasar Bharati-Smriti Irani imgroblio, listen to Mahatma Gandhi’s only speech delivered at Broadcasting House in 1947
Recently, several reports were published highlighting the rift between Prasar Bharati...
Controversy erupts in BHU after cultural event glorifies Nathuram Godse
A new controversy erupted in the Banaras Hindu University...
RSS Appropriation of the Indian Freedom Struggle is Baseless
An ‘army’ that never fought for Independence is busy,...
Mohan Bhagwat threatens takeover of the Indian Republic by Hindutva Mercenaries
Despite four years of the RSS (via its pocket...
Bollywood epic Padmavaat has emerged out of the mists of legend to divide Indian society
Bollywood saga Padmaavat has divided India. The film, by...
Who Should Be India’s Role Model, Hitler or Mandela?
Post World War I Germany , South Africa and...
The story of Adam and Eve revisited
Stephen Greenblatt has struck upon a sheer and stupendous...
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
Communal Organisations
Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence
Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”
Minorities
Beyond the Narrative of “Genocide”: Understanding Boko Haram, Religion, and Reality in Nigeria
Understanding the True Drivers of Violence in Nigeria
Gender and Sexuality
Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists
Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices
Rule of Law
From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention
Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits
Gender and Sexuality
From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative
As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse