Explainer: Why Is Manipur Burning?
What has led to the violence that has claimed many lives and reportedly displaced over 9,000 people in the North-Eastern state?
Indulging in Bluster with China, the Modi Government Is Overplaying its Foreign Policy Hand
Believing its own rhetoric of major power status, and hence China’s peer competitor, India thought it could, like the US, combat, compete and cooperate on its own terms with China. But is that true?
The Human Rights Situation in the Indian Sub Continent
An unabridged version of the presentation made at the 36th session of UNHRC.
The Principles of Democracy Can’t be Scarified at Altar of Majoritarianism
Former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court Justice Mathur’s keynote address at the 11th Rajasthan state convention of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties in Bhilwara on April 1 and 2.
Freedom of Expression: Driver for All Other Human Rights
The World Press Freedom Index 2022 had ranked India 150 out of 180 countries in the world. Given the state of Freedom of Speech and Expression in the country today, it is doubtful whether India has any chances of improving on its pathetic 150 ranking of the previous year.
Why Pune’s Citizens Are Up in Arms About a Riverfront Development Project
Along with eating into the riverine vegetation along the Mula-Mutha river, the riverfront development project that aims to address flooding and make the river more ‘accessible’ to people will not really do so, say activists.
Alluri Sitarama Raju, Unique Revolutionary, Remembered on His Death Anniversary
On 7 May 1924, Alluri Sitarama Raju (4 July 1897– 7 May 1924), a unique revolutionary involved in the Indian independence movement, was killed by the British armed forces. He was one of the few Indian revolutionaries who had developed a mass base and a mass movement.
‘We Lay Like Corpses. Then the Raping Began’: 52 Years on, Bangladesh’s Rape Camp Survivors Speak Out
In 1971, the Pakistan army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in which hundreds of thousands of women were detained and repeatedly brutalised. Only now are their stories beginning to be told.
NCERT Deletions About Gandhi’s Assassination Show How Shrewdly the Operation was Planned
For the proponents of Hindu rashtra, Gandhi is the most formidable obstacle. Their latest tampering with the NCERT school textbooks is part of many manoeuvres being simultaneously carried out to finish him off forever.
The Bermuda Triangle May Have Shifted Over India
Promises made by the BJP, public money, historical facts and several others have all evaporated into thin air. And even though millions of voters are scurrying around looking for them, all they have found so far is a big jumla.