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From news to real estate: P Sainath on how corporate power is undermining media freedom

The other day, P. Sainath was in Ahmedabad to deliver a lecture on the "Role of Media in Democracy: Prospects and Retrospect." An excellent speaker, he is not just...

A month after Jharkhand journalist’s murder, killers remain at large

Exactly a month ago, Amit Topno, a journalist from...

Hindutva Terror and Left Hegemony: After Women’s Entry into Sabarimala

Hours after the two women entered Sabarimala, the Hindu...

Sambit Speaking… Not Anymore?

The BJP spokesperson who had been overdoing his gimmicks...

Opinion: Are journalists in India Narendra Modi’s PR agents?

In India, the opposition is dumb and somehow exactly...

25 Years of Kalpana Lajmi’s Rudaali

Kalpana Lajmi, the courageous director who passed away recently,...

Seeing Reason in Anand Patwardhan’s Latest Documentary Vivek

“Anyone who sees my films is my audience,” said...

Manipur journalist jailed under NSA for criticizing BJP on social media

Kishorechandra Wangkhem, an Imphal based journalist, was arrested by...

Journalists labelled spies, illegally detained for probing illegal sand mining

Besides two Tamil Nadu based journalists, two French journalists...

Angry women and insecure men: Hindi Cinema and the #MeToo Age

Men have had every advantage of us in telling...

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Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra

A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.

Protests across Maharashtra denounce the Public Security Act as unconstitutional and anti-democratic

Opposition, rights groups, and people’s movements unite to call it an “anti-people, anti-democratic law”

Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt

In the case of Wikimedia v. ANI Media Private Limited & Ors. the apex court reaffirmed free speech and restrained a Delhi High Court order that was held, on examination to be disproportionate

Urdu is not the monopoly of mullahs, nor even the Muslim community 

Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure

Election Commission seriously risks losing all credibility: senior advocate Sanjay Hegde

Senior advocate, Supreme Court Sanjay Hegde on Saturday, September 6, raised concerns over the credibility of the Election Commission of India, cautioning that the institution is increasingly being viewed as partisan, speaking at the annual public lecture on the occasion of Gauri Lankesh’s brutal assassination

India’s Silent Push-Out: Courts, states, and the deportation of Bengali-Speaking Muslims

From migrant workers vanishing in midnight raids to a Kolkata man driven to suicide by fear, reports across states reveal a disturbing pattern of expulsions without due process — now under scrutiny in India’s courts