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‘We Cannot Be Afraid’: Rhiya Ahir in Conversation with Teesta Setalvad

What does it mean to stand beside young people when they choose to confront power?In this conversation, activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad speaks with Rhiya Ahir, whose act of...

Koran, Madrassas and Terrorism

Wasim Rizvi’s motivated understanding of Islam

From Oxford to Whatsapp University, the Rashmi Samant issue has traveled far

Many right wing influencers have now decided to fuel, and amplify the controversy around former Oxford Student Union president Rashmi Samant

Why is Natasha Narwal not allowed to register for PhD semesters at JNU?

A student-activist, currently in prison, she is a confirmed Ph.D. student of Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

40 mosques to be covered in plastic sheets ahead of Holi to ‘maintain peace’

Mosques along a Holi procession route are being covered so people do not hurl any objectionable projectiles at them, and disturb communal amity, says gov't

Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi: Saviour of 1931 Meston road riot survivors

A great supporter of India’s oppressed, Shankar was an unconventional journalist who entered a riot-ridden Kanpur to help people, instead of reporting the incident.

SC quashes FIR against journalist Patricia Mukhim over social media post

Lawsohtun Dorbar Shnong, a traditional institution in Meghalaya had alleged that her Facebook post incited communal tension

Covid-19: UP shuts schools for students up to class 8 till March 31 

Superspreader events such as weddings, and public’s laxity with Covid-19 prevention guidelines to blame for fresh surge

Ashoka University and India’s dwindling academic freedom

The resignation of renowned intellectuals as faculty members of the University has invoked responses from not just Indian, but also international academicians, and academic freedom is now being debated

Assamese made a compulsory subject for non-Assamese school students

Decision taken by state government with eye on the upcoming polls, hopes to consolidate Assamese nationalist vote

Mahad Satyagraha: After 94 years, do we have Equality, Dignity & Access?

Ninety-four years ago, to the date, Babasaheb Ambedkar walked to the public water tank/pond – Chavdar tale – with fellow satyagrahis (protesters) and drank water from a common property resource denied to the Dalit Untouchables on March 20, 1927

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Six-year-old detained during Patna teacher aspirants’ protest, parents allege police assault

Patna Police say the child was ‘rescued’ from a potentially dangerous crowd, while his parents allege that the family was taken to a police station, where they were assaulted and kept for nearly seven hours

The ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ Isn’t a Gen Z Uprising. It’s a Rerun

The demand to “remove reservation” is one of the oldest, most recycled slogans in independent India’s political life, and it has failed, in more or less identical form, every single time it has been tried.

112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.

Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions