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The statistics released by the government paint a troubling picture. From 2019 to 2023, India arrested 10,440 individuals using its strictest anti-terror law, but only 335 were convicted. This number was shared by the Union Home Ministry itself during a session in Parliament in December 2025.
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.
‛School Closures, Student Deaths, Children Out of School: The State of Public Education’; ‛Niti Aayog Flags Poor Student Retention, Learning Outcomes in Report’; ‛Government Report Reveals Stark Infrastructure Gap in Indian Schools’; ‛57% Schools Have Functional Computers, 53% Have Internet Access: Education Ministry’.
The Indian media and social media seem to have been bewitched by some wicked magician who has made close to one billion people, the Indian working class, disappear from our minds and conscience. It is not only their pain, their exploitation that has become invisible but also their resistance to the injustice they suffer on a daily basis.
The West Bengal CPI(M) unit throwing its weight behind the BJP to overthrow Mamata Banerjee is nothing but suicidal, as the saffron party’s ascent will have far-reaching and irreversible consequences for the State’s politics, minorities, and culture.
India cannot sustain this contradiction indefinitely: a government that promotes animal welfare while presiding over the murder of the people who make the animal economy function.
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.
‛Extreme Heat Imperils Chronic Disease Patients in Informal Settlements’: Lack of ventilation, cooling methods, and increased susceptibility to heat make every summer dangerous for those living with chronic disease in India’s urban slums and settlements. Also: ‛In Delhi’s Scorching Heat, Its Poorest Women Are Back to the Chulha’.
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