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Politics of Humiliation: Mahua Moitra, mob intimidation and the Calcutta High Court’s warning

The alleged attack on Mahua Moitra came just a day after the Calcutta High Court warned against the growing culture of mob justice, public humiliation and egg pelting in West Bengal

Flawed Verdict: The Bombay High Court judgement refusing bail to GN Saibaba

  The decision of the Bombay High Court decision refusing...

How Islamic law can take on ISIS

 The media coverage of the terrorist atrocities of Friday November...

Faizabad 1992, the attacks on Muslims, the Media: Citizens Tribunal on Ayodhya

Image Courtesy: Pablo Bartholomew   Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy, Justice D....

Unleashing lawlessness: Citizens Tribunal on Ayodhya

Image Courtesy: Pablo Bartholomew   Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy, Justice D....

Stop Killing Us: the Bhim Yatra of India’s Manual Scavengers tells the Indian government

  No Justice Delivery, India’s forgotten Safai Karmacharis have started...

India’s Sixth of December

The sixth of December is a day that is...

Minority Rights and State wrongs

  The massacre of innocents in Paris by the Islamic...

How the Right and the Left Are Getting San Bernardino Wrong

Image Courtesy: businessinsider.in   14 people are dead. 21 are injured.A...

Where is the news? Peaceful students protest faces police brutality in Delhi

If it bleeds, it doesn’t lead! For those of us...

Ahmadis under fresh attack, Pakistan

Image for representation purpose only   In the continuing attacks...

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