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In village of Dalit man killed in Gurgaon: ‘Our lives don’t matter’

By Asad Rehman On July 4, Anuj Kumar Harijan (21), left home in Saddupur village of UP’s Jaunpur district to find work in Gurgaon so...

In Rajasthan, Meenas resist RSS’s co-option of their culture

An ancient fort called Amagarh (Ambagarh), revered by the Meena tribal community, sits atop a hillock in the Ghat Gate locality of Jaipur, the...

By failing to prioritise education, the Modi government is putting India’s future at stake

By Deepanshu Mohan Sarwari Jahan is an Accredited Social Health Activist in her early 30s who works with a primary health clinic near Lucknow’s Jama Masjid....

BJP Has Insulted My Hinduism

By Avijit Pathak It is for the ‘experts’ to reflect on the outcome of the coming elections. And it is for the over-confident television anchors...

Surveillance state: The Pegasus saga unravels in India

By Divya Trivedi As the Pegasus phone intrusion saga unravels, raising troubling questions over the government’s invasion of privacy, veteran journalists and civil rights activists...

Gujarat HC issues notice to state government over new anti-conversion law

GANDHINAGAR:  The Gujarat High Court issued a notice to the state government during a hearing on a petition challenging the vires of the Gujarat...

A Graphic Book Rekindles Spirit of Anti-CAA Protests

By Saurabh Sharma In December 2019, to register their protest against the anti-citizenship laws and paramilitary crackdown on students in Jamia Millia Islamia, Muslim women occupied a...

Rising torture and deaths in police custody ; most victims from minorities and Dalits

New Delhi: Reacting to the data about torture and deaths in police custody stated by the government in Parliament, rights group NCHRO said on...

HUMAN RIGHTS‘2 years of lockdown’: Human Rights report says situation worsened in JK after...

By News Desk Srinagar: On August 5, 2019, when Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its semi-autonomous status, and the erstwhile state was divided into...

The bully that is destroying India’s academic culture

By Apoorvanand , Gauhar Raza  The withdrawal of Dr Hari Singh Gour University in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, from an international seminar on “Cultural and Linguistic Hurdles in the...

The Day Mohammad Wakeel’s World Went Dark & Other Delhi Riot Tales

By ANWAR S T New Delhi: In 2020, on a cool February night in a teeming northeastern neighbourhood in India’s capital, Mohammad Wakeel and his 20-year-old...

Delhi riots: Couldn’t find source of Tanha’s statement leak, police tells HC

By Richa Banka The city police on Thursday told the Delhi high court that it questioned several officers and journalists but was unable to establish the...

Why is BJP throwing its weight behind Adityanath despite his image taking a beating...

By Arunabh Saikia Beginning mid-July, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath has had a great amount of praise heaped on him by his seniors in the...

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