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JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed

Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

An Inglorious End: The Summary Execution of Benito Mussolini

78 years ago, on this day, Benito Mussolini of Italy met with an inglorious end. In 2016 Sabrangindia had posted this story. Towards an understanding of history, we are re-posting it today--Editors

Did the RSS want Partition? An interview with Dr DR Goyal for Communalism Combat, October 1994

In this interview for Communalism Combat, 29 years ago, Dr DR Goyal, a member of the organization in his youth explains why he left and how poisonous RSS propaganda accelerated the movement for Pakistan

Sajjad Nomani says girls should not be allowed to go to college alone

He spoke in a video uploaded on his Facebook page, speaking about Quran during Ramzan

Man lynched for accidentally breaking two fingers of idol in Hindu temple

The man was tied to a tree and thrashed with sticks, rods and an axe

Parenting in an Age of Unreason

There was a time when India’s history and social science official texts though burdened with a slew of dates and events in a top down linear narrative nevertheless celebrated the reality of the evolution of a rich and diverse civilizational ethos. Today, the corrosive power of exclusion and hate runs deep: eleven days ago, April 14, reports of a deeply-disturbing incident caused concern on social media but was met with a deafening silence by India’s political class: an 11-year-old boy was allegedly thrashed and stripped simply to pressurise him into “chanting religious slogans” in Madhya Pradesh's Indore. That is how deep of hate flows now in India’s veins

Eid Mubarak: Mussalmans & a United Nation- India

First published on: 11 Nov 2016The Musalmans and a United...

14 months on, Kashmiri journalist, Fahad Shah’s detention under PSA quashed

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court held that the detention order against Peerzada Fahad Shah was liable to be quashed

To Ahilya Rangnekar, an intrepid revolutionary, April 19, on her death anniversary

Today April 19, is the death anniversary of Comrade Ahilya Rangnekar. Her birth centenary year began on July 6, 2022 and will end on July 8, 2023. This article was first published in 'People's Democracy' and 'Loklahar', and in the CPI-M Marathi weekly 'Jeewanmarg' last year in July 2022.

A social media account that promotes Hindu supremacy and fear mongering

We came across an account on Instagram that posts videos promoting Hindu supremacism and victimising Hindus despite being the majority

Sudarshan News continues to spread hatred, targets Muslims

Chavhanke, along with Hindu monk Devkinandan Thakur, advocates for the Babri mosque demolition to be repeated in Mathura and Kashi

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JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed

Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

Policing Identity: Maharashtra’s birth certificate crackdown and the politics of belonging

What is framed as an administrative clean-up of fraudulent records in Maharashtra has unfolded into a securitised campaign in Mumbai — raising urgent constitutional questions about due process, discrimination, and the weaponisation of civil documentation

A Republic Must Tolerate Art — But Not Denigration: Supreme Court reasserts fraternity as a constitutional boundary

While closing the challenge to a withdrawn film title, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that vilifying any community is constitutionally impermissible — even as it robustly defended artistic freedom under Article 19(1)(a), striking a careful balance between dignity and dissent in a 75-year-old Republic

Hegemony: Kerala’s Bharatapuzha as a political stage

Unlike the North Indian Kumbh, the Bharatapuzha by contrast has never functioned as a Pan-Hindu pilgrimage centre. It has no historical association with mass ritual bathing, no priestly networks that regulate sacred time, and no inherited mythological mandate that binds the river to cyclical purification rites. The introduction of the Maha Magha Mahotsavam is a clear cultural imposition by Hindutva

JNU: Former JNUSU President complains against Vice Chancellor’s casteist & racist remarks

Two complaints, one by former JNUSU president, Dhananjay and the second BY Suraj Kumar Baudh, an activist, take on Santishree D. Pandit, Vice-Chancellor of JNU for her recent casteist and racist comments

From Permanent Refuge to Perpetual Limbo: Why Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain without citizenship even as electoral assurances reshape belonging in Bengal

Four decades after the 1983 exodus, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain classified as foreigners despite generations of residence in India — even as citizenship becomes a visible electoral assurance in Bengal through CAA-linked mobilisation