Tag: In focus

The Deaths behind India’s Cleanliness

India has progressed technologically, legislated against manual scavenging, and constitutionally abolished untouchability. Yet, in the twenty-first century, caste still determines who enters a sewer. The persistence of manual scavenging...

Two FIRs, Four Days In: Pune sees first use of Maharashtra’s controversial anti-conversion law

Pune police invoke the new law against a man accused of targeting a minor and an OCI cardholder accused of religious inducement

ID Based on Anonymous Informant, Sudden Reference to 2009 Home Ministry Notification: Why NSA Case Against Satyam Verma Is Unconvincing

When Noida District Magistrate Medha Roopam chose to invoke the stringent law against the journalist, she appears to have based it on her reading of his assumed ability to influence workers – not the facts available.

India’s freedom struggle @ 2026

It is August 2026! The anniversary of India’s freedom...

Feminist group demands RSS condemn Mohandas’s ‘rape’ slander

The All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA), a national platform bringing...

₹6,812 crore on UP publicity, ₹550 crore on PM’s foreign visits: Official data reveals government spending patterns

From publicity campaigns across Uttar Pradesh to diplomatic tours abroad, official figures reveal how public funds have been spent on government outreach   

Piyush Mishra, Jharkhand and the Blind Spot of Progressive Men

Raising troubling questions about personal choices and contradictions, the author, both a professional and political activist, queries the active presence of the person at the Jharkand protests and his token support for the Jantar Mantar students uprising that saw brute police actions

The painter’s vision: Visual poetics in Shamsher Bahadur Singh’s ‘Dawn’

Shamsher Bahadur Singh (1911-1993) stands as a distinctive vanguard...

Jamnalal Bajaj, The Fifth Son

Every great movement is remembered through its iconic leaders,...

Manmohan Singh Posthumous Exoneration

There is an old saying that courts pronounce judgments,...

The Merchant and the Mahatma

The relationship between political movements and economic power has...

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