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SC hearing on BCCI will include appointment of ombudsman who is expected to look into sexist comments made by Hardik Pandya and K.L. Rahul. New Delhi: Two days before the Supreme Court hears several key issues related to the Board…

Please find here a communication dated 11 December 2018 issued to the Government of India jointly by the UN Special Rapporteurs on cultural rights; extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; the right to freedom of opinion and…

आप दिल्ली, मुबंई या देश के किसी भी कोने में हो कल से “कश्मीरियों हाय हाय, खून का बदला खून से लेगे” जैसे नारे लगाते लोगों के झुंड से आपका सामना ज़रूर हुआ होगा। कश्मीरियों को हमने बड़ी आसानी से देशद्रोही बना दिया है, देशभर से कश्मीरी…

Facing hostility from Hindutva groups and the Indian government, some of them have been forced to seek the relative safety of Bangladesh. On January 18, at least 31 Rohingya refugees from Jammu were arrestedin the no man’s land…

The committee also resolved to summon officials from other social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp and other tech platforms on the issue of “Safeguarding Citizens Rights on Social/Online News Media Platforms”. The…

Choking dust, bumpy and dug up roads, broken drainage lines, shoddy infrastructure – for Mumbaikars, this is the daily-lived reality. But in one particular area, the situation seems even grimmer, with potential health ramifications. The…

I wrote this piece for a web dossier produced by Heinrich Boell Foundation for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‘ 70th anniversary 2018 – Asma Jahangir – ein bedeutungsvolles Leben, ein inspirierendes Erbe. Sharing now, a year after…

After 15 years, Madhya Pradesh was wrested from BJP by Congress. It was naive to believe that the change of power would also signal a halt to some of the hardcore Hindutva and essentially fascist policies followed by the BJP, especially in…

On January 24, 1979, the Left Front government in West Bengal cut off supplies of all essential commodities to Marichjhnapi. Section 144 had already been imposed around the area. Police boats surrounded the island in the Indian Sunderbans,…

‘Oh to be in Kolkata, now that poll-itics are here!’ Yess, shotti, the battle cry was mother’s milk to me, and i was deliciously weaned on the historic clashes of the 60s. Reduced to yearning from afar during CPM’s invincible sway and then…