Tag: Modi Govt

Free Speech in India 2025: What the Free Speech Collective report reveals about a year of silencing

Based on data documenting 14,875 violations, the Free Speech Collective’s latest report traces how killings, arrests, mass censorship, corporate pressure and regulatory overreach combined to shrink India’s public sphere in 2025

Treading Carefully: Illusion of Accountability in an age of social media content creation

In over a decade of non-transparency and unaccountability from traditional media, citizens need to guard against treating all social media content creators as journalists

The Waqf Amendment Bill: A majoritarian assault on minority rights

History will never forget how political parties in democratic...

Open Letter to an Imaginary Supreme Leader of a country of billions

An Open Public Letter to an imaginary Supreme Leader of an imaginary country of a billion suffering fools. 

Odisha: 6 Months in Power, ‘Double-Engine’ BJP Govt Looks Button-Holed

The Majhi government rode to power on women’s empowerment, but revised eligibility criteria for cash transfers under Subhadra Yojana are creating discontent.

Divided & strife-torn Manipur: intensified violence, abdication by state & union governments, demands of accountability from BJP MLAs

Sitting MLAs from the ruling party have given calls for Chief Minister Biren Singh's removal and resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah, even whilto ongoing tribal protests and a divided state, Manipur's unrest continues as ethnic clashes deepen, with political leaders and civil society groups demanding urgent action for peace and justice.

Why is the Modi govt & BJP feeling threatened by a forum against fascism?

CPI-M, Rajya Sabha, Dr V Sivadasan from Kerala has been denied political clearance to attend the Parliamentary Forum against Fascism scheduled to take place in Venezuela from November 4-6, 2024.

Modi govt distancing from Adanis? MoEFCC ‘defers’ 1500 MW project in Western Ghats

Is the Narendra Modi government, in its third but ...

Kanwar Yatra episode: Pasmanda Muslims, ‘wooed’ by BJP, perhaps biggest losers

The recent order requiring eateries in Uttar Pradesh and...

Union Minister says no report of manual scavenging in last 5 years

Safai Karmachari Andolan demands that the Prime Minister come out with a White Paper on work done by govt for manual scavengers in last 10 years and seeks special package for liberation and rehabilitation of manual scavengers

Should Government Employees be allowed to Join RSS?

RSS is the biggest organization in the World. It...

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