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Supreme Court examines Forest Rights Act 2006 versus Conservation Law, makes national headlines
The rights of Adivasis and forest dwellers are, once again under threat as India's highest court considers the impact of Parliament’s wide-sweeping changes to the Forest Conservation Law (2023)
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Breaking patriarchal cycles through cycling: Revisiting the Story of Women in Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu
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Strange are the ways that people find to make...
What Indian Cities Owe to Islam
The cities created in the Deccan by Muslim leaders introduced the concept of public space to the Indian world.
“They were once sent back”: Court refrains from probing State’s claim as Assam seeks to justify continued detention
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No evidence produced to support alleged deportation; Court yet to examine verification question, to deliver order on October 24 on legality of continued detention
From Victim to Accused: High Court of Gujarat’s 2025 Ruling on Religious Conversion
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In a decision that may reverberate across India's legal milieu and minority rights landscape, the Gujarat High Court has ruled that individuals who have been forcibly or wrongfully converted themselves may be charged in criminal proceedings if they then "influence" or abet someone else to convert
The Uneasy Calm in Assam: The Limits of Control of a Nervous Government
The first wave of mourning is over in Assam....
The unsung architects of food security: India’s rural women demand recognition
The first struggle for every woman, before she can...
When a spontaneous gathering of students is criminalised – A report of the TISS students’ meeting to commemorate Prof GN Saibaba
The price of political engagement and learning today* Recording the...
The Mess, called ECI’s Final Voter List for Bihar
In 243 assembly constituencies, analysis shows at least 14.35 lakh suspect duplicate voters and 1.32 crore voters of different families, castes and communities bundled and registered at dubious and fictitious addresses
Mere Presence Does Not Imply Guilt: Supreme Court defines clear test for liability under unlawful assembly
In a significant ruling on mob liability, the Court acquitted ten men convicted for a 1988 double murder in Bihar, laying down a definitive test to distinguish innocent bystanders from participants in an unlawful assembly
On living the legacy of Fr. Stan Swamy
Late evening of 8 October 2020, Fr Stan Swamy was...