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42nd Anniversary of 1984 Sikh genocide: Amnesia of the Indian state and society

For almost last 3 decades now, on every anniversary of the 1984 genocide of Sikhs in India, this author has been reminding the Nation how Indian State and judiciary...

A school rebuilt in 72 hours: Keralites once again show exemplary community work

 When the deadly monsoon wreaked havoc in Kerala, it...

Panjab University elects its first woman student president

22-year-old Kanupriya, a second-year student of MSc in Zoology,...

Dissenting in a Democracy with draconian Sedition Act

Colonial era law to keep freedom fighters in check,...

As Myanmar sends journalists to jail, pressure mounts on Aung San Suu Kyi

The government of Myanmar and its de facto head,...

Student groups from IITs, BHU condemn the state targeting one of their own as “Maoists”

Coordination of Science and Technology Institutes’ Student Associations (COSTISA),...

Cartoonist P Mahamud Wins the First PEN-Gauri Lankesh Award for Democratic Idealism

Cartoonist P Mahamud was awarded the first PEN-Gauri Lankesh...

The Tiffin Box, a poem for Gauri

This poem, The Tiffin Box written by Kavitha Lankesh...

One year after Death, Gauri Lankesh still inspires people to defend Democracy

Hundreds of activists, journalists, civil society members as well...

Gauri Lankesh to be Memorialised as a Reporter Killed on Duty: Bayeux-Calvados Awards

Come October 8, 2018 and the annual commemoration and...

We are not the enemy

Journalists get a lot more hate than they deserveA...

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