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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

When Delhi Police act as the Sangh’s Private Army

  An open letter to young protestors who were brutally...

Azeez Basha: The Ghost that hovers above the Aligarh Muslim University

  With a vision of crafting an institution like Oxford,...

My hometown

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Why we should listen to the music of the Holocaust – and that of Syrian refugees

Image: Patrick M, CC BY-NC-SA As the 71st anniversary of...

The Right to Worship my God

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It’s Official: The Brahmanisation of Government

A Dalit groom wears a helmet as upper caste...

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Lessons Unlearned: Nine years after the Thorat Committee report

  In 2007, then prime minister Manmohan Singh set up...

The Death of Merit: Dalit Suicides in institutes of higher learning

  This article written by K.P. Girija (girijakp@gmail.com)  was the cover...

Untouchable God

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