Sangh Parivar proto-fascist? Kerala academic’s query raises Govt of India eye-brows
Veteran political scientist and peace and human rights activist Manoranjan Mohanty, who is with the Council for Social Development (CSD), and academic Prem Kumar...
Punjab: Gram panchayat booked for forcing Dalit to leave village
BATHINDA: A case has been registered against a village panchayat for forced eviction of a Dalit over allegations of burglary.
Ram Singh, a Dalit who...
Northeast Delhi riots: Court pulls up police, says complete lack of supervision by senior...
A Delhi court on Monday dismissed a review petition filed by the police challenging a Metropolitan Magistrate’s order over registering an FIR in the...
‘Chained to cot like animal’: Wife of scribe Siddique Kappan, held on way to...
Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan who is accused of offences under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and sedition, is presently "chained like an animal" to...
Exploring the unholy nexus between RSS and Modi’s BJP
By Amjed Jaaved
The relationship between the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the BJP is that of the soul and the body. The BJP disposes of...
The hollowness of the Hindutva Governance Model
BY AAKAR PATEL
The Union Government of India is currently controlled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which proclaims that it follows the ideology of...
Scarred by lockdown, migrant workers return home to vote against CAA-NRC
By Arti Mitra
For several migrant workers in the districts of Malda and Murshidabad, which go to the polls in the remaining two phases, the...
Why Ensuring Dalit Human Rights is Still a Tough Task in the 21st Century
BY SUBHASH GATADE
Sunped, a small village in Faridabad, Haryana, hit the national headlines recently once again, when a CBI court gave its verdict in...
Murder of Dalit youth was pre-planned’
MADURAI
The death of P Muthu Mano, 27, a Dalit, inside the remand prisoners cell in Palayamkottai Central Prisons on Thursday was a pre-planned murder...
More J&K employees may face axe for being ‘anti-national’
The Jammu and Kashmir government has constituted a Special Task Force (STF) for identifying and scrutinizing its employees involved in any activity detrimental to...
After temple entry ban, Dasna Muslims now suffer social apartheid
By Ziya Us Salam
At first glance, Dasna near Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh looks like an idyllic village with vast green fields of wheat. An...
What’s the real drive behind temple facelifts in Odisha — tourism promotion or soft...
By Debi Mohanty
Months after he began his fth consecutive innings as Odisha Chief Minister in 2019,
when Naveen Patnaik announced his ambitious plan to develop...
For Second Year, US Religious Freedom Body Sees India as ‘Country of Particular Concern’
By The Wire Staff
New Delhi: A US government organisation that monitors international religious freedom has recommended that India be designated as a “country of...