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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...

Gandhi as “evil” (Mahiasura) is a time-tested narrative for all hues of Hindu communalists

The latest depiction of Mahatma Gandhi as ‘Mahiasura’ at the All India’s Hindu Mahasaha’s puja pandal in Kolkatta is a time-tested narrative of Hindu communalists who, as Teesta Setalvad has writen, regurgitate this narrative portraying Gandhi as different forms of “evil”

Karnataka: Minority PhD Scholars Stare at Bleak Future as Govt Slashes Fellowship Amount

The fellowship scheme has faced hurdles ever since regime change in the southern state.

Hindus, Muslims worship Durga in ‘no man’s land’: Assam

Representation ImageA collective Durga Pooja celebration, across a thin,...

Caste in CBSE Texts, Who is to Blame?

While the CBSE issued a clarification over viral 'casteist' text in Class 6 History textbook, the fact that caste bias surfaces time and again, over decades, in official board texts is a matter of concern

Row over BHU exam question on temple demolition

In 1991, local priests filed a petition seeking permission to worship in the Gyanvapi Mosque complex in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

Shaheed Bhagat Singh: a fighter for freedom who dreamed and died for a world full of equality & justice

The rapid advance of the struggle led by him from the margins to reach millions remains a great inspiration for activists even today, 90 years after his hanging

1986 Saka Nakodar Case: Long-awaited justice as Punjab & Haryana HC orders the formation of SIT

The HC order instructing the Punjab Government to investigate the missing report of the Justice Gurnam Sing Commission Report, bringing relief to the families of the four killed in unlawful police firing over three decades ago

“IMSD strongly condemns the repressive Iranian regime, questions the hypocrisy of the Muslim clergy in India”

Image: Getty ImagesIndian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) strongly...

Jamia cancels Safoora Zargar’s PHD then bans her from entering JMI campus

New Delhi: Days after Jamia Millia Islamia cancelled student activist,...

Protests rock Chandigarh University over alleged objectionable videos of female students

Incident sparked flurry of reactions from political parties and the central and state women's rights organisations too stepped in

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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