From Aadhaar to Aarogya Setu: How Surveillance Technology is Devaluing India’s Democratic Rights
The app could potentially allow the government to peer into aspects of the user’s private life that have nothing to do with Covid-19.
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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…
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Relevance of Ambedkar’s Idea of ‘State Socialism’ in the Time of COVID-19
In the light of the current crisis, the time has come to revisit Dr Amebdkar’s ideas on democratic state socialism proposed by him in his book ‘State and Minorities’ written in 1947.
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If Courts Only Favour the State, Justice Remains Unserved
The Supreme Court’s remarks in the case about migrant workers during the lockdown is further proof of this trend.
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Delhi Violence: Delhi Police on Arrest Spree While Prisoners Being Released Amid Lockdown
At least 10 persons, including a pregnant Jamia student, have been reportedly picked up in connection with the anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protests and the violence in Northeast Delhi.
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Indian Media is Enemy of the Poor, Anti-Science, Worships Falsehoods
Citizens must understand that eventually, they are the losers when false information is deliberately allowed to proliferate, says senior journalist Ravish Kumar.
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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.
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Coronavirus Lockdown: The Seven and a Half Things that Modi Said and Did Not Say
On April 14, PM Modi announced that the lockdown was being extended till April 14. In his 25-minute speech, he did not talk about several things that urgently needed to be addressed by the Modi government and the urban elite.
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Reaffirming Our Faith in the Constitution on Ambedkar Jayanti
Statement by National Alliance of People’s Movements on Ambedkar Jayanti.
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Letter To The People Of India
Dr Anand Teltumbde’s open letter to the people of India before he was arrested on April 14 by the government on blatantly false charges.
