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‘Withdraw Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 Now’; ‘The Curious Logic of the Transgender Persons Amendment Bill’; ‘The Transgender Bill Doesn’t Amend Rights, It Erases Us’; ‘Satrangi Salaam: A Community-Led Protest Against the Amended Transgender Law’; ‘Petition Urges President to Withhold Assent to the Regressive Bill’.
‘Rainbow Representation Reaches India: A New Moment in Democratic Politics’. Also: ‘The History of LGBTQIA+ Leaders’: The melting of homo-ostracism is not just a victory for the LGBTQIA+ community; it is a victory for the principle that in a true democracy, the only thing that should be “incompatible with tradition” is the exclusion of its own citizens.
‘Noose Tightens, Alarmingly, Around Our Digital Freedoms’: MeitY’s draft IT rules are only one piece of the puzzle of digital authoritarianism in India. Also: ‘Is the Freedom to Express Oneself in India Going Down the Toilet?’.
‘Is Modi Govt Fast-Tracking Women’s Reservation Bill to Push Delimitation, Which It Is Finding Tough to Sell?’. Also: ‘The Many Angles to Implementing Women’s Reservation in Politics’: Is women’s reservation being used to push Lok Sabha expansion to 816? The Nari Vandan Adhiniyam must not be instrumentalised.
‘Lost Land and the State’s Warped Priorities: Why Adivasis Are Resisting in Odisha’; ‘Tijmali: An Undeclared Conflict Zone?’; ‘Stop Attacks on Villagers Resisting Mining in Rayagada and Kalahandi Districts of Odisha!’.
In Goalpara, eviction drives have displaced thousands of Muslim families despite their Aadhaar, voter IDs, and decades-old documents, as the BJP’s ‘illegal migrant’ narrative brands them outsiders—even as they line up to vote amid a campaign built on their displacement.
Today, it feels strange, and sad, that FIRs are being lodged against 14 Muslim men for taking a boat out on the river and opening their fast on the Ganga; they are being accused of hurting the sentiments of the majority community.
In “Speaking of History”, historian Romila Thapar and history enthusiast Namit Arora stage a conversation on caste, method, and early India, but the exchange also reveals the limits of pop history when it brushes against serious scholarship.
‘The Road to Scalable Organic Farming’; ‘Saroj Kushwaha Shows the Way for Highly Creative and Climate Resilient Farming’; ‘Tribal Community’s Family Farm Shows the Way Forward with Highly Creative Natural Farming’; ‘A Climate Resilient Model of Farming That Small Farmers Are Happy to Accept’.
A land that gave the world its first lesson in the conscience of power deserves more than a footnote in its own nation’s story.
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