Dalit families targeted in Demolition Drive Undertaken by Bangalore Development Authority
In a most shocking development, officials of the Bangalore Development Authority, backed by Bangalore Police, destroyed about 10 houses of villagers of Doddabettahalli. Each and...
India’s passage to despotism began long before demagogue Modi
By Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane
Experience teaches us that well-organised despots, unless stopped in their tracks by citizen resistance, robust watchdog institutions, unforeseen outcomes and...
Narsinghanand’s Lewd Remarks Outrage Hindu Women; They Demand His Arrest
By Waquar Hasan
NEW DELHI – Hindu women on social media have demanded action against Hindutva-aligned priest Yati Narsinghanand for saying that when Hindu men go...
In village of Dalit man killed in Gurgaon: ‘Our lives don’t matter’
By Asad Rehman
On July 4, Anuj Kumar Harijan (21), left home in Saddupur village of UP’s Jaunpur district to find work in Gurgaon so...
In Rajasthan, Meenas resist RSS’s co-option of their culture
An ancient fort called Amagarh (Ambagarh), revered by the Meena tribal community, sits atop a hillock in the Ghat Gate locality of Jaipur, the...
By failing to prioritise education, the Modi government is putting India’s future at stake
By Deepanshu Mohan
Sarwari Jahan is an Accredited Social Health Activist in her early 30s who works with a primary health clinic near Lucknow’s Jama Masjid....
BJP Has Insulted My Hinduism
By Avijit Pathak
It is for the ‘experts’ to reflect on the outcome of the coming elections. And it is for the over-confident television anchors...
Surveillance state: The Pegasus saga unravels in India
By Divya Trivedi
As the Pegasus phone intrusion saga unravels, raising troubling questions over the government’s invasion of privacy, veteran journalists and civil rights activists...
Gujarat HC issues notice to state government over new anti-conversion law
GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat High Court issued a notice to the state government during a hearing on a petition challenging the vires of the Gujarat...
A Graphic Book Rekindles Spirit of Anti-CAA Protests
By Saurabh Sharma
In December 2019, to register their protest against the anti-citizenship laws and paramilitary crackdown on students in Jamia Millia Islamia, Muslim women occupied a...
Rising torture and deaths in police custody ; most victims from minorities and Dalits
New Delhi: Reacting to the data about torture and deaths in police custody stated by the government in Parliament, rights group NCHRO said on...
HUMAN RIGHTS‘2 years of lockdown’: Human Rights report says situation worsened in JK after...
By News Desk
Srinagar: On August 5, 2019, when Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its semi-autonomous status, and the erstwhile state was divided into...
The bully that is destroying India’s academic culture
By Apoorvanand , Gauhar Raza
The withdrawal of Dr Hari Singh Gour University in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, from an international seminar on “Cultural and Linguistic Hurdles in the...
