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To watch the Jantar Mantar videos is to know what hate looks like
As Independence Day approaches, a sense of anxiety hangs over Muslims in Delhi.
Modi Govt.: Promoting Superstititons, Attacking Scientific Temper – Two Articles
Scientists and Rationalists Respond to IGNOU’s New Astrology Course; ABVP Members Disrupt Webinar on Achievement of Scientific Temper.
Two Years Since Abrogation of Article 370: Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir
This executive summary of the third report issued by the Forum details several issues from civilian security to freedom of media, speech and information as well as health, employment, land, demography and identity rights.
Assam & Mizoram CMs Clashed, But it’s Minorities Who Suffer in the Northeast
It’s the minorities who are used as a shield to advance the majority and the state’s interests and sovereignty.
Why UP’s Population Control Bill Can Prove Disastrous for Women, Poor Families
The draft Bill will impact most adversely women across communities and classes, depriving them of their rights and rendering them even more vulnerable to ill health, social stigma and violence.
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Why Neo-Fascist and Far Right Parties are So Tame Toward Big Business
Unlike in the 1930s, now it is globalised capital, with which domestic big business is integrated, confronting the nation-State.
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Whose History Is it Anyway?
A critical look at a report currently being considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books. It unpacks the misplaced bases of comparison used in the report, and also examines the implications of its recommendations to erase or simplify histories of caste and gender.
Debate: Sudheendra Kulkarni on Bhagwat’s Speech of 4 July; and Two Responses
Opinion: Bhagwat’s Glasnost in RSS-Muslim Ties Is Welcome, But Can He Rein in Modi and Adityanath?; Counterview: The RSS’s Age-Old Agenda Is the Same, No Matter What Mohan Bhagwat Says; The Burden of Being ‘Bharatiya’ in Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu Rashtra.
Pegasus and Cyberweapon Threats in the Age of Smartphones
Spyware like Pegasus is not just dangerous as it wrests complete control over an infected phone. It is menacing also because it introduces the skills and knowledge of nation-states into the civilian sphere.
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A Gandhian Case to Repeal Sedition Law
The CJI rightly asked why independent India needs a colonial-era law used to convict freedom fighters, for the law cannot persist unless a vestige of colonial mindset persists.