Justice Kureshi’s Exclusion from SC Collegium List Sends a Message: Be Afraid
By SANJOY GHOSE
“A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for, Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest. Guided...
One more blow to press freedom in India
By DIVYA TRIVEDI
Even before the ‘Pegasus scandal’ broke out, India had been witnessing a serious decline in press freedom as the government’s direct and...
Partition Horrors Day to CAA: BJP has tried to weaponise 1947 for electoral politics
By Shoaib Daniyal
Independence Day has always been a deeply political event. Every prime minister has used the opportunity awarded by the large audience for...
The Normalization of Communal Politics in India
By Kavita Chowdhury
A hate rally that took place on August 8 at the Jantar Mantar, a stone’s throw away from India’s parliament building in...
Uttar Pradesh: Seven cops booked for ‘murder’ of dalit in Bijnor on court orders
Bijnor: Seven police personnel, including two sub-inspectors, have been booked for allegedly murdering a dalit youth here in an area under Noorpur police station...
The Double Standards of Hindutva Ideology on Religious Freedom in India and the United...
BY RAJU RAJAGOPAL
I was recently in a talk show along with three other panelists on TV Asia’s “Bottom Line with Jyotsna Sharma.” The topic was Religious Freedom...
Renaming and banning names galore this month, all in 3 BJP-ruled states
By Kumar Shakti Shekhar
NEW DELHI: Besides renaming cities and roads, the governments are also on a spree to ban the use of words. About 10...
Gujarat High Court Stays Sections of New Anti-Conversion Law
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Thursday put a stay on the operation of some sections related to interfaith marriages of the state’s new anti-conversion...
Judge who remanded Amit Shah to CBI custody excluded from SC elevation
Hyderabad: Justice Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi, one of the senior-most High Court chief justices in the country, has been left out from the list cleared...
Hell, by any other name
By Deborah Grey
On August 17, the Government of Assam, issued a notification saying that henceforth detention camps in the state will be known as...
Assam detention centres for ‘foreigners’ renamed ‘transit camps’
A notification issued by the Assam government on Tuesday says the nomenclature of the “Detention centre is changed to Transit Camp for detention purpose”.
The...
Kanpur Mob Attack on Muslim Rickshaw Driver Prompts Demand for a Law Against Hate...
NEW DELHI — The horrific video of a Hindutva mob attacking a Muslim man in UP’s Kanpur while his daughter pleads for mercy has sparked...
“People Are Being Forced To Chant Jai Shree Ram For No Reason”
By Godhuli Barat
“Media”—the word sounds amazing, full of a gala life. But the fact is that life in media is difficult and different. Media...
