What Modi’s Central Vista Plan Says About His Vision of a New India
It’s the Gujarat model, scaled up: of place marketing conflated with RSS goals against the backdrop of neoliberalism and a narrative combining stigmatisation with hyperbole.
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Report: Police Violence in Jamia and AMU Violates International Conventions and Indian Court Judgments on Rights of Protestors
A report by Citizens Against Hate: on the invasion of Jamia University and AMU by police a year ago, and the brutality inflicted on the students.
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‘It’s Time We Speak up For Each Other’: Farmers’ Group Supports Political Prisoners
“We are confronting a prime minister who is behaving like an exploitative king. All these activists and intellectuals have been arrested on false charges merely because they highlighted the plight of the poor,” said the head of BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan).
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The Poem for His Mother that Got Salil Tripathi Suspended from Twitter
An outrageous act of censorship against one of the most important advocates of free speech.
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Love, Faith and Consent in a Hindu Rashtra
The Uttar Pradesh ordinance couples marriage and conversion, love and faith – and, simultaneously, detaches both from freedom of conscience, thought and self-determination.
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The Supreme Court Sets at Naught the Solemn Guarantee of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
In the case of the journalist Siddique Kappan, the Supreme Court abnegates its own responsibility by treating the writ jurisdiction of the High Courts as an acceptable alternative in disposing of habeas corpus petitions.
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How Laws in Pakistan and India Discriminate Against Women from Minority Communities
The Indian and Pakistani constitutions provide equality for all, yet the rights of citizens from different religious groups in matters such as marriage, divorce, maintenance and succession, depend on religious identity.
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Narendra Modi Threatens to Turn India into a One-Party State
The international weekly newspaper recently carried an article on this increasingly dominant prime minister and the ongoing erosion of checks and balances.
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“How Long Will or Can the Moon be Caged, Hum Dekhenge…”
Six months in prison for dreaming of freedom? Citizens demand the release of Devangana, Natasha and all anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protesters; message by Uma Chakravarti for all members of Pinjara Tod.
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India Needs More of Love and Not Hatred: The Falsehood of ‘Love Jihad’
We are hurtling towards a morbid claustrophobic talibanized society, the ruins of which are too grave to be redeemed. Let us hope we soon realize that what this country needs in these times of heightened religious polarization is more of love and not hatred.
