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Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis
On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective (FSC) assembles a powerful, deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing—centring the stories of jailed journalists Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj to expose the widening fault lines in India’s democratic promise
Vivekananda: Monk who highlighted Humanism of Hinduism
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Right-wing students demand hijabs be banned from colleges, dismissing constitutional rights
CJP campaign against hate crimes grew stronger in 2021
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CJP’s petitions led some authorities to initiate action, there’s a glimmer of hope in other cases
Was Rahul Khan’s Muslim identity that led his friends to hack him to death?
Rahul Khan, a Muslim resident of Rasoolpur village in Haryana's Palwal was hacked to death by his ‘friends’ Kalua,Vishal, Akash and some others
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Branches of Films Division, two other cinema units will shut down soon
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