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More than 600 citizens and civil society groups wrote to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Friday, May 22, taking exception to his remarks on May 11 criticising environmentalists for filing petitions in courts and for suggesting that they are stalling development. ‘Environmentalist’ is not a term to delegitimise efforts to protect India’s natural…
‛Hate Speech Gets a New Safe Zone’: The Supreme Court’s April 29 judgment condemns coded incitement in theory while clearing its most powerful practitioners in practice, all the while calling it “judicial restraint”. Also: ‛Is SC’s “Existing Law” Argument on Hate Speech Enough?’.
Seventy-five years after the Constitution came into force, India’s first uniform civil code laws have emerged—but as instruments of Hindutva rather than gender justice. Weaponised to stigmatise Muslims and expand state surveillance, they betray the constitutional vision of equity.
Telangana’s census-scale caste survey reveals that SCs and STs are three times as backward as dominant castes, and that caste remains the principal determinant of poverty. The data challenges the basis of Economically Weaker Section reservation and makes a strong case for a nationwide caste census.
‛BJP’s West Bengal Sweep Was Broad, But the Numbers Reveal a More Complicated Story’; ‛Data Shows SIR Helped BJP Win Bengal’; ‛In Half the Seats BJP Won in Bengal, Total SIR Deletions Outnumber Victory Margin’; ‛BJP’s SIR Gamble Paid Off in Bengal, But It Wasn’t the Only Factor Behind Its Win’; ‛How BJP Swept Bengal with Micro Campaigns’. Also, extract from: ‛How RSS Engineered Hindu Consolidation Beyond Caste and Changed the Game’.
Anyone familiar with Assam’s political history would know that disdain for Miya Muslims holds great sway over the dominant Assamese psyche. It serves as a scaffolding to other issues (like welfare and development), quietly deciding which button they press on polling day.
Two political activists – Khadija Mumtaz and P. Usha Devi – shed light on how two potent symbols played a role in these elections.
The contrast between the Manmohan Singh government’s management of India–Iran relations under US pressure and the Modi government’s abject capitulation is the clearest possible illustration of what strategic autonomy means in practice, as opposed to in rhetoric.
On its first anniversary, Sushant Singh in Delhi and Khurram Husain in Karachi sit down with Varadarajan to discuss questions related to Operation Sindoor and draw up a balance sheet – military, political, and diplomatic.
‛How Indian States Are Using FIRs to Reframe Wage-Related Workers’ Disputes as Crimes’; ‛Money, ID, Only Link to Family: Noida Police Hold on to Phones Despite Workers Being Released’; ‛May Day Under Police Watch in Noida: Workers’ Resistance Persists’.
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