Two Articles on How the Modi Govt. is Using the Pandemic to Centralise Power
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Two Articles on How the Modi Govt. is Using the Pandemic to Centralise Power

BJP is trampling upon the country’s federal structure and concentrating all power in the Centre’s hands, putting at risk the project of building a democratic, secular, inclusive and egalitarian India. Two articles.

Justice Lokur, Prashant Bhushan and Mahua Moitra on the Supreme Court’s Functioning During Corona Times
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Justice Lokur, Prashant Bhushan and Mahua Moitra on the Supreme Court’s Functioning During Corona Times

Justice Lokur: ‘SC Not Fulfilling Its Constitutional Role Adequately, Needs to Introspect’; Bhushan: “Justice Is in ‘Emergency’ Care”; Moitra: SC has forgotten it is a court of rights.

Why Is Anand Teltumbde So Dangerous for the Narendra Modi Government?
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Why Is Anand Teltumbde So Dangerous for the Narendra Modi Government?

Jignesh Mevani, Meena Kandasamy Even as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic looms large and prisons are becoming dangerous hotspots of contagion, even as the Supreme Court of India directs prisons to release undertrials and convicts on interim bail, even as the Indian nation grinds to a halt following a lockdown, even as hundreds of…

Criminal Intimidation of The Wire & its Editor, Siddharth Varadarajan and In Defence of a Free, Non-Communal Media
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Criminal Intimidation of The Wire & its Editor, Siddharth Varadarajan and In Defence of a Free, Non-Communal Media

Statement by over 3500 intellectuals slamming the UP government for filing false criminal charges against The Wire and one of its founding editors, Siddharth Varadarajan.