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  1. From Hyderabad To Car Nicobar: How Govts Are Using Environmental Law Against India’s Environment & People
  2. Not Communal, No Immediate Cause: A Judge Questions Delhi Riots Conspiracy Case Against Protesters
  3. ‘What Did I Do?’ After Pahalgam Attack, Kashmiri Students In At Least 4 Northern States Face Intimidation, Threats, Isolation
  4. India’s Fall In Global Academic Freedom Index Plays Out At Clampdown On Protest At A Delhi University
  5. Indian Law & SC Orders Reaffirm Rights To Indians With Disabilities. Yet, Millions Are Denied These Rights
  6. Expired Saline Drip Kills Mother, Reveals Larger Maternal Healthcare & Livelihood Crisis In West Bengal
  7. Despite 2 High Court Release Orders, Judicial Negligence & Administrative Apathy Keep Rohingya Refugee In Jail For 7 Years
  8. Faith In The Forests: In Jharkhand, A Challenge To Hindutva From Adivasis Following The Ancient Sarna Faith
  9. Justice Delayed, Healing Denied: Acid Attack Survivors Battle A Legal System Indifferent To Their Trauma & Suffering
  10. Activist Gulfisha Fatima Jailed For 5 Years, Bail Plea Pending For 3 Years
  11. How A Few Good Judges Have Resisted Political & Police Pressure To Bend The Law
  12. Cow Slaughter Law Differently Applied To Muslims & Hindus In BJP-Run Madhya Pradesh, With Congress Lending A Hand
  13. Distress Deepens On India’s Farms As Farmers Harvest More Crops Than Ever. Protests Likely To Intensify
  14. In Line To Be Next Chief Justice, J&K High Court Judge Who Upheld Liberty, Held Govt Accountable, Is Transferred
  15. Street Vendor With A PhD In J&K, As Region Struggles With India’s Highest Youth Unemployment
  16. As Solar Parks, Mines, Expressways Swallow Their Land, Guidelines To Protect Millions Of India’s Poorest Tribals Abandoned
  17. How Govt In India’s Capital Keeps Homeless Out Of Shelters: By Insisting On IDs & Phone Numbers
  18. ‘Go Back To Kashmir’: Facing Hate Intimidation & Assault, Kashmiri Traders Live And Work In Terror In India
  19. How Kapil Mishra Allegedly Broke The Law, Was Never Prosecuted & Became Delhi's Law Minister
  20. In Adivasi Belt Of Bastar, Ban On Christian Burials By Hindutva Groups Reveals Chhattisgarh’s Rising Tide Of Bigotry
  21. Poverty & Joblessness Drive Bihar's Bootleggers, As Poisoned Brews Kill & Blind The Poorest In A Supposedly Dry State
  22. Accused Of Extrajudicial Killings By Families of Victims, Former Maoists-Turned-Police Troopers Say They Yearn For Peace
  23. Surge In Hate Speech From India’s Highest Echelons, As Checks & Balance Fail & Justice For Victims Slips Away
  24. ‘The Message Is Loud & Clear.’ Author Of New Book On 11 Indian ‘Prisoners Of Conscience’ & The Costs Of Defiance
  25. 2 Months After Assault By Police Over Maharashtra Riot, Scores Of Dalit Youth Say They Will Not Be Silenced
  26. India’s Forgotten Country: How State Power & Capitalism Without Checks Fuel The Totalitarian Temptation
  27. How The Chhattisgarh High Court—Like Others—Is Defying The Law & Denying Rights To Women Seeking Abortion
  28. After Latest Deaths In Troubled J&K, Differing Standards For Death Of Former Soldier & Deaths Of Labourer, Driver
  29. ‘I Have Not Left The Field’: 5 Years After Police Beat Her Son, Forced Him To Sing National Anthem, Mother Of Dead Muslim Man Fights On
  30. A Former Chief Justice's Disingenuous Remarks On A Jailed Activist
  31. In State With Least Job Opportunities For Women, Corruption In Govt Exams Is Pushing Them To Marriage & Motherhood
  32. ‘Witch-Hunt:’ J&K High Court Kills Preventive Detention Against Jammu Newspaper Owner As Authorities Weaponise The Law
  33. ‘I’m Happy But I’m Afraid’: A Young Muslim After Magistrate Orders FIR For Police Violence & Islamophobia. Then, It Was Stayed
  34. Backlash, Bailiffs, Bankruptcy: The Unmaking Of Independent, Public-Spirited Journalism In India
  35. The Unfulfilled Promises of Narendra Modi’s Ayushman Bharat, the World’s Largest Health Scheme
  36. In Bastar War, Lines Between Civilians & Maoists Blur, As Amit Shah Sets March 2026 Deadline To End Insurgency
  37. MP High Court Strikes Down Externment Order Against Tribal Activist, 3 Fold Jump In Cases Shows Misuse Of Law By The State
  38. Equal Treatment In An Unequal Society: Gendered Laws To Protect Women Become ‘Men’s Rights’ Battleground
  39. An Uncertain Victory: Rajasthani Farmers Battle To Save Sacred Groves Clashes With India’s Climate-Change Pledges
  40. How A Modi-Era Ecosystem Of Official & Unofficial Censorship Is Transforming India’s Film Industries
  41. Millions Poised To Be Displaced By Climate Change, But Few Signs India Is Planning Or Budgeting For It
  42. State Laws Governing Use Of Bodies Are Failing To Cope With The Rising Demand For Cadavers In Medical Studies
  43. In Violation Of Supreme Court Orders, PhD Scholar Sharjeel Imam In Jail For 5 Years, Bail Plea Pending For 2.9 Years
  44. ‘If You Are Going To Continue, Kill Us First.’ A Lakshadweep Islander Explains Why He Is Fighting For His Home
  45. 5 Years After Delhi Police Beat Students Inside Jamia, No Accountability Or Compensation
  46. As A Deadly Artillery Range Turns Tourism Hub In Kashmir, Families Of Those Killed Battle For Compensation
  47. Lack Of Accountability For Muslim Carpenter’s Death In Karnataka Police Custody Points To Endemic National Failures
  48. Staying Safe Or Keeping Children Safe: How The State Forces A Hard Choice On Domestic Violence Survivors
  49. Modi Promises J&K Statehood, But Omar Abdullah Will Govern In New Delhi’s Shadow, More Mayor Than CM
  50. Protests Spiral, As Amendment To Planning Law Accelerates Goa’s Urban Sprawl & Devastates Its Lush Commons
  51. After New Beef Ban In One Of India’s Poorest States, Cow Herders, Meat Merchants & Hotels Plunge Into Distress
  52. Threats To Beat & Boycott, Inciting Violence Against Muslims: BJP’s Nitesh Rane, With 20 FIRs, Is Now A Maharashtra Minister
  53. Why UP School Teachers On Contract Drive Rickshaws, Tailor Clothes Despite BJP Promises, Winning Court Cases
  54. Delhi Riots: How A False Case Ripped Through The Lives Of 4 Muslim Men
  55. As A Satellite Confirms What Rajasthan Officials Deny, A Court Tries To Reverse Destruction Of A Life-Giving River
  56. What 2024 Tells Us About Where Hindutva Is Going, Role Of Caste & Islamophobia
  57. A Year After A Haryana Riot: Muslims Branded As Terrorists, Incarcerated Despite Flimsy Evidence, Contradictory Witness Accounts
  58. ‘Congress-BJP Comes Second. We Are Hindus First:’ Himachal Became A Hotbed Of Islamophobia In 2024
  59. Hunger, Food Insecurity Deepen In An Adivasi Odisha Village, As Govt Schemes For Work, Nutrition Fail
  60. In Uttar Pradesh, 3 Elderly Women Workers Share A Lifetime Of Struggle, Unable To Access Govt Social Security Schemes
  61. Growing New Forests Over Old & Other Ways Modi Govt Defies Supreme Court & Breaks Its Own Rules
  62. Saving Young Adults In Consensual Relationships From Prosecution Under Child Sex Abuse Law Has Become A Matter Of Luck
  63. ‘Caste Is A Hydra-Headed Social Category, Constantly Morphing Across Borders’
  64. As SC Stops Mosque Surveys, Muslims In UP’s Sambhal Accuse Police Of Firing, Bias & Rushed Burials
  65. 4 Years & 3 Months In Jail & After SC Repeats That Jail Is The Exception, Umar Khalid Makes Fourth Appeal For Bail
  66. Court Stays Delhi Univ Student’s Expulsion Over Slogan On A Wall, But Crackdown On Student Dissent Grows Nationwide
  67. “One Day There Was A City, A Family, A Country & Then There Wasn’t:” Writer Of New Memoir On Gujarat Riots
  68. Muslim Salesman Jailed For 105 Days In Fake Case Is Free, But Police Continue Case Against 28 Who Helped Him
  69. Land Taken Away 39 Years Ago For India’s Second Largest Port, Fisherfolk & Farmers Stuck In Derelict Transit Camp
  70. ‘I’m Used To It But ‘Endangering Sovereignty’ Is Too Much’: Fact Checker Mohd Zubair Faces Gravest Criminal Case Yet
  71. In Jammu Village Flying The Indian Flag, Army Allegedly Tortures 4 Muslim Labourers, As Terror Attacks Rise
  72. Arrests, FIRs, Raids: The Perils Of Fighting For Labour Rights In India’s Industrial Hubs
  73. In Mumbai, Hundreds Lose Homes Built Over Decades, As Big Business Allied With Govt Takes Over Land
  74. How The Costs Of The Adani Bribery Scandal Will Be Borne By India’s Electricity Consumers & May Increase Power Cuts
  75. ‘I Languished In Jail Without Any Crime:’ 29-Year-Old Journalism Graduate, Last Of The Hathras 4 To Get Bail
  76. In Maharashtra’s Marathwada, A Farm-And-Jobs Crisis Narrows Focus Of Voters & Parties To A Single Issue: Caste
  77. As Centre-State Row Suspends Rural-Jobs Scheme In West Bengal For 3 Years, Thousands Migrate In Search Of Work
  78. ‘Criminalised For Simply Doing My Job.’ Disturbed But Determined, Kashmiri Reporter After 910 Days In Jail
  79. Jailed For Decades, Convicts Forgotten By The State & Their Families Fight Lonely Battle To Get Out
  80. Labourers Vs IIT-Bombay: Contract Workers Win A High Court Case For Gratuity Payment, Could Set National Precedent
  81. Why Over 1500 Women & Men Deemed Fit for Discharge Are Stuck in Mental Health Institutions Nationwide
  82. ‘Some Stories Are Desperate Calls For Intervention:’ Reporter Whose Stories Led To SC Order To End Casteism In Prisons
  83. A Professor & A Singer, Both Accused In Bhima-Koregaon Case, Discuss Hopelessness & Hope In An Indian Prison
  84. 6 Years After Modi’s Promise To Transform 112 Backward Areas, Little Change In Crumbling Schools In A Haryana District
  85. India’s Right-To-Information Law Came To J&K In 2019. But Despite A Supreme Court Order, Information Is Hard To Obtain
  86. Should The Dead Be Allowed To Reproduce? Why This Is A Question That Parliament Must Consider
  87. Millions Of Indians In The Gulf Working In Difficult, Degrading Conditions Demand Govt Intervention, Safety Net
  88. The ‘Lightning-Speed’, Overnight Appointments That Now Dog The Integrity Of India’s Elections
  89. Hindu Homes Intact, Muslim Houses Razed By Assam Govt, Ignoring Supreme Court Hold On Demolitions
  90. The Faltering Promise Of Modi’s ‘Temples Of Health’: Healthcare Centres That Fail The Poor, Censured By Govt’s Own Auditor
  91. Myanmar Hindus Seek Indian Support, Overseas Citizen Status, As Ethnic & Religious Discrimination By Junta Soars
  92. 35% of Victims Sexually Assaulted Within Families Are Aged 12-15, Report Severe Trauma, Need Special Support
  93. Freefall In India’s Academic Freedom Ranking Is Reflected In Cancelled Lectures At IIT Bombay & Elsewhere
  94. Delhi Govt Shelter Home Where 14 Intellectually Challenged Inmates Died Was A Disaster Waiting To Happen
  95. ‘Media Need To Find Ways To Centre Public Interest Again’: Author Of New Book On India’s Invisible Workforce
  96. Govts In Delhi Fail To Deliver Homes Promised To Hundreds In Slums, 14 Years After Collecting Up To Rs 1.4 lakh Each
  97. Nicobarese Anthropologist & Former Officer Questions Modi Govt Claims Over Controversial Great Nicobar Project
  98. How A Delhi Riots Case With Specious Evidence Has Cast A Shadow Over The Lives Of 3 Muslim Women
  99. ‘This Movement Can’t Be Erased From People’s Minds’, Parents Of Raped & Murdered Kolkata Doctor Blame Mamata Banerjee Government For The Aftermath
  100. In Haryana: Cow Vigilantes Raided Muslim Homes, Lynched A Man & Tortured A Minor, As Anti-Muslim Violence Continues
  101. In A Gujarat Village, A Clash Between Clean Energy Solutions & Those Who Bear The Cost Of The Transition
  102. Why Informal Workers Aren’t Using Or Don’t Know Of Modi Govt Plan To Deliver Welfare Benefits To 380 Million
  103. The Death Of A Bridegroom In Custody Confirms India’s ‘Criminal Tribes’ Are Policed Much As The British Did
  104. How India Crimininalised Pro-Palestinian Protests & Posts, Including Using The Anti-Terrorism Law Against Protestors
  105. Why The Trial Of Umar Khalid & The Other Activists Is Nowhere In Sight—4 Years After The Delhi Riots
  106. 3 Girls Forced into Illegal Marriages Every Minute in India, Says New Report. Most Cannot Get These Marriages Annulled
  107. Muslim Man Battered On Train For Carrying Meat Was Unafraid To Do So, Since Family Had Never Faced Islamophobia
  108. 9 Years After A Muslim Man Tortured In Police & Judicial Custody In MP, Magistrate Books Seven Policemen and a Doctor For Murder
  109. The Supreme Court Is Making Bail Easier In Terrorism, Money Laundering Cases—Except When It Ignores Itself
  110. As Bengali Muslims Flee Homes In Eastern Assam, The Chief Minister Ramps Up Familiar Islamophobic Rhetoric
  111. India's New Criminal Law Offers Little Protection Against Sexual Assault To Men & Trans Men
  112. How The Case Against Kashmiri Activist Khurram Parvez Criminalises Human Rights Reports & Fact-Finding
  113. How Social Media Platforms Work Hand-in-Hand With The Modi Govt To Censor News & Videos Online
  114. Parks, Plantations & Orchards Passed Off As Forests & Other Untruths From India’s Forest Data
  115. More Women Than Ever in India Inc, But They Hold Less Than a Fifth of Leadership Positions: New Study
  116. ‘Conversion Was My Great Grandfather’s Act Of Defiance, Nothing Short Of A Rebirth’
  117. As Assam’s Only Wetland Protected Under Global Treaty Deteriorates, Local Fishing Community Faces Loss Of Livelihood
  118. Five Years After 370 Abrogation, Jammu's Rising Militancy Leaves Behind a Trail of Fear, Panic, And Shattered Lives
  119. The Right To Die With Dignity Is Legal, But Most Indians Don’t Know It. A Society In Kerala Lights The Way
  120. 3 Deaths Over 4 Years In A MP Dalit Family Reflects How The State Leads India In Crimes Against Dalits, Women
  121. Farm Weather Advisory Offices Nationwide Shut, As Niti Aayog Misrepresents Their Role, Seeks Privatisation
  122. A Window To India's Future: Intensifying Heat Waves Are Reshaping Lives, Farms & Industries in Haryana
  123. ‘A Form Of Untouchability’: In Muzaffarnagar, Order To Display Names Was Coercively Implemented Against Muslims
  124. A Landmark Judgement From J&K, In The Law’s Perennial Conflict Between Liberty & Security
  125. Covid's Unequal Impact In India: Muslims, Adivasis, Dalits, Women Faced Greatest Decline In Life Expectancy
  126. A New Wave of Displacement In Manipur, As Hundreds Of Tribal Minorities Seek Refuge In Assam
  127. Delhi Riots: Case Against 13 Muslim Women Reveals Singular Focus To Pin Violence On Anti-CAA Protesters
  128. 113 West Bengal Families Win A Legal Battle Against TMC Govt To Retain Land They Have Farmed For 3 Generations
  129. Death of 5 Orphans In MP Reveals How The Govt Punishes But Does Not Help Child Care Institutions
  130. Despite Weaponization Of ED Against Opposition, Supreme Court Sees No Urgency In Deciding PMLA Constitutional Issues
  131. J&K High Court Has Quashed 4 Detention Orders Against This Kashmiri Lawyer, But The Police Have Arrested Him Again
  132. Hindu Men Who Provoked Mob Against Muslim Shopkeepers In Himachal Are Still Out, Spreading Islamophobia
  133. India’s Deadly Climate-Change & Environment Crisis & What Modi 3.0 Must Do (But Hasn’t Ever)
  134. India's Air Pollution Crisis: Over 870 Million Slowly Being Poisoned, Promises To Clean Air Fail. What Modi 3.0 Can Do
  135. ‘Survival Is Hard’: India’s Millions Unemployed Youth & The National Crisis Facing Modi 3.0
  136. A Crisis In Indian Banking: How High Targets, Work Pressure Are Driving Employees To Despair, Suicide
  137. Under Pressure To Present Success Stories On Digital India & Financial Inclusion, Many Banks Engaged In Fraud, Malpractice
  138. ‘They Can Measure Our Land, But They Can't Measure The Pain’
  139. How 2 Kashmiri Brothers Ran A 10-Day, Social-Media Campaign That Propelled Their Imprisoned Father To Parliament
  140. Anger At Governance Failures In 3 ‘Model’ Villages In Modi’s Constituency Point To His Diminished Popularity
  141. It's Not Possible To Fool People Forever: NewsClick Founder Prabir Purkayastha After 225 Days In Jail
  142. Why The BJP Scored A Zero In Punjab: Farmers’ Fury Flattens Party After Boycott Of Candidates
  143. 'Extensive Consultations' Before 3 New Criminal Laws, Says Modi Govt, But Won’t Give Any Details
  144. Targeted For Being A Foreigner, No Help From Embassy: Frenchman Jailed After Attending Dalit Protest In UP
  145. Delhi Riots: How A Delhi Police Investigating Officer Framed 9 Muslim Men For An Attack By A Hindu Mob
  146. Costlier, Shoddier, Fewer Passengers & Losing Money: Beyond Vande Bharat & Bullet Trains, The Reality Of The Railways
  147. BJP's Strategic Moves In Kashmir: Altered Political Map Strengthens Hindu Vote, New Tribal Quota Forges Fresh Loyalties
  148. An IIT-Bombay Gardener’s Suicide Reveals The Spread Of Labour Practices Designed To Deny Indian Workers Their Rights
  149. A Muslim Voter’s First-Person Account Of How She Fought To Cast Her Vote In The 2024 Election
  150. After 18 Months Of Humiliation, Trauma In Jail, J&K’s Waheed Parra Is Still A Unionist & A Candidate For Parliament
  151. How A False Child Rights Body Report, Rejected By Experts, Govt, Led To Harsh Mander's Legal Persecution
  152. The Prosecution & Persecution Of Harsh Mander: A Case Study of India's Accelerating Democratic Decline
  153. In Lucknow, A Poor Neighbourhood Is Being Razed For A Riverfront Plaza, Despite A Stay Order From The High Court
  154. Manipur Police, Extremists Not Questioned Despite Viral Video Probe That Reveals Complicity in Gangrape
  155. The Taming Of India’s Regional Media: Why Hindi Dailies, TV Channels Present Handouts From Ministries As News
  156. What The BJP Promised But Failed To Deliver To India’s Farmers
  157. Long Walk to Freedom Cut Short: A Chronicle Of Kashmir Journalist Aasif Sultan’s Captivity For Over Five Years
  158. More Courtrooms, Judges & Tech Won’t Reduce India's Pending Cases When The Biggest Litigator Is The Govt
  159. ‘Many Have Happily Accepted Media Bigotry As The Truth.’ New Book Explores The Place Of Muslims In Hindu India
  160. Shootings Of Cattle-Smugglers, Drug Peddlers, Suspected Insurgents: Inside The 20-Fold Surge In Assam’s Encounter Killings
  161. ‘It Is Only Because Of God's Mercy That I Could Come Out [Of Jail]. This Is Injustice & An Atrocity’
  162. Death By Detail: How The Govt Has Used Penalties In Law Controlling Foreign Donations To Cripple India’s NGOs
  163. ‘Time To Hold Big-Tech Accountable For Using Cheap Labour In Artificial Intelligence Data-Labelling Work’
  164. Desperate For Work, Impoverished Adivasis From Prosperous Kerala Toil & Die In India’s Coffee Heartland
  165. ‘The Size Of [India’s] Pie Has Increased, But Only A Small Segment Has Benefited From Growth’
  166. As BJP Breaks Promises Of Autonomy, Buddhists & Muslims Join Forces, Protests Rage In Ladakh
  167. How A Muslim Man Fought A Police Cover-Up To Get Justice After 6 Years In A 2018 Lynching
  168. Banks Want Forged Paper Trails After Taking Money Illegally From Customers For Modi Govt's Flagship Schemes
  169. A National Campaign To Find & Assist Children Illegally Held In Prisons Reveals A Breakdown Of Justice
  170. 6 Years After 17 Muslim Men Were Accused Of Celebrating Pakistani Cricket Victory, MP Courts Find Police Case To Be False
  171. Over 2 Years Since Security Forces Killed Jharkhand Adivasi On A Chicken Hunt, Widow Awaits Fresh Probe, Justice
  172. ‘We Have To Fight For What's Right:' Why Hindu & Muslim Students Stood By Their Muslim Teachers In Rajasthan
  173. Acquittal Of Prof G N Saibaba & 5 Others Is A Lesson In The Importance of Criminal Procedure In Securing Personal Liberty
  174. In Varanasi, A Community Exists In The Shadow Of A Dead, Colonial Law, Unable To Live Even In Slums
  175. In Search Of A Better Future, Women From Bangladesh End Up Criminalised & In Indian Jails
  176. ‘We’ve Reached A Stage Where The News Media Have Become A Voice Against The People’
  177. Foraging To Fill Gaps In Food Security Net: Jharkhand’s Poorest Adivasis Face Ration Delays, Shortages
  178. ‘Everywhere I Went People Said, Nobody Has Come To Speak To Us’
  179. ‘After Muslims, It’s The Turn Of Christians:’ With Little Evidence, UP Govt Prosecutes 4 Christian Institutions, Arrests Employees
  180. Conflagration In Haldwani Was Preceded By A Spate Of Demolitions & The Steady Demonisation Of Muslims
  181. ‘The Tipping Point Was When A Union Minister Lied in Parliament:’ Retd War Veteran Who Revealed Electoral-Bond Subterfuge
  182. Parents & Students Want Eggs In Schools, But As Influence Of Right-Wing Politics Grows, Child Nutrition Suffers
  183. In Lush, Ancient Chhattisgarh Forest, Thousands Of Trees Cut To Mine Coal For Rajasthan, Threatening Adivasi Homes, Water, Livelihoods
  184. ‘Trinamool Can Exist Only By Mixing Politics & Unregulated Profit From Businesses Of Local Leaders’
  185. How Procedure Upended Personal Liberty In Allahabad High Court’s Refusal To Protect Interfaith Couples
  186. How The Modi Govt Is Trying To Silence Critics In The Diaspora By Banning Them From India
  187. Takedown Of Hate Tracker Highlights Secrecy Around Modi Govt’s Internet Censorship Practices
  188. How Modi Govt Gave Early Permissions For Rs 19,000-Cr Adani Energy Projects In India’s Oldest Forests
  189. Baby, 2 Teens & 3 Men Die In January, As Bastar’s Anti-Maoist War Intensifies. Families Accuse Police, They Blame Maoists
  190. The Beneficiaries Of The Tinderbox Toolkit Used By Hindu Nationalists In The Mumbai Suburb of Mira-Bhayander
  191. Freed By The Court In Terror Case After 19 Years, A Muslim Pharmacist Says The Police Won’t Stop Harassing Him
  192. An Unregulated Mining Boom in Kashmir Is Degrading Rivers, Worsening Floods & Destroying Livelihoods
  193. 3-Year-Old Supreme Court Order Restricting Internet Outages Is Ignored In India, World’s Leading Offender
  194. ‘It’s A Sham:’ Despite Army Assurances, Why Families Of 3 Killed In Latest Military Custodial Death Have No Hope Of Justice
  195. Ram Mandir Inauguration: ‘I Have No Tears Left’
  196. ‘There Is Nothing More Unconstitutional, Nothing More Cruel:’ Muslims Before Ram Temple Consecration
  197. 6 Years On, New Case Against Kafeel Khan Shows UP Govt Still Harrying The Paediatrician
  198. Muslim Teen Gets Bail After 151 Days In MP Case Of Spitting On Hindu Procession. Complainant, Witness Deny Police Claims
  199. Citizen Movements Try To Stem The Decimation of Urban India’s Trees, In Era Of Record Heat & Toxic Dust
  200. After Years Without Pay, Madrassa Teachers In Uttar Pradesh Do Menial Jobs, Cope With Debt, Distress & Ill Health
  201. Charismatic Kerala Politician Returns To Public Life After 22 Of Last 25 years In Jail or Exile, But It May Be Too Late
  202. 5 Years After Ranjan Gogoi, No Clear Rules About Sexual Harassment Related To Chief Justice Of India
  203. Instead Of Making Life Easier For Pensioners, Widows, Transgenders, A J&K Govt Online Process Has Led To Misery
  204. Harassment & Unsafe Workspaces: How Women Cab Drivers Survive The Risky Roads Of India’s Capital

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  1. In UP, An FIR Citing ‘Negative News’ Reinforces Fears Of Embattled Journalists
  2. A Battle For The Commons: Tribals Fight Illegal Deforestation, Government Inaction In Madhya Pradesh
  3. The Decline Of Nehru, Tagore & The Rise Of Savarkar: How Delhi University Got Itself A New Syllabus
  4. After Abuse Of Muslim Student In UP School, An Unrepentant Teacher & An Anxious, Fearful Father, Steadfast In Desire For Justice
  5. How Indians Are Endangering The Health of Their Domestic Workers: New Study
  6. Rohingya Children Grow Up Without Education, Family Life, As India Holds Parents Indefinitely In Detention Centres
  7. Lying With Impunity: The Challenges Of Prosecuting The Police For Perjury
  8. Fabricated Evidence, Tutored Witnesses, Malicious Prosecution: How Police Lied & Subverted Path To Justice
  9. Debt, Distress & Antidepressants: Thousands Struggle To Recover From A J&K Trade Route Closed 4 Years Ago
  10. Quacks For Mishaps, Reprisals For Runaways: Brick Kiln Workers Face Lifelong Collateral Damage To Health & Early Death
  11. No Housing, No Toilets, No Medical Care, No Schooling: Bonded Labourers Face Assault, Sexual Violence, Denial Of Rights
  12. A Crackdown Fails To Curb Modern Slavery: India’s Bonded Labourers Endure Inhuman Conditions As Traffickers Take New Risks
  13. On India’s 77th Independence Day, Driven By Poverty, Caste, Millions Of Migrant Workers Live As Modern Slaves
  14. After 46 Years In Search For Justice, An RSS Man Has A Bag Full Of Orders, No Closure
  15. Home Minister Amit Shah Says Sedition Is Dead. But Its Replacement Is More Fearsome Than The Colonial Law Ever Was
  16. In Riot-Torn Nuh, A Muslim Man Has Found It Impossible To Get His Complaint Registered
  17. Soap Star, Social Rebel, Family Provider: In Kashmir, An Executed Daughter & The Absence Of Closure
  18. Imprisoning A Child is A ‘Flagrant Violation’ Of The Law, Yet Police Freely Violate The Law, 77% Of Detentions In UP
  19. Rage, Riots & State-Led Retribution: Reconstructing Haryana’s Week Of Violence
  20. ‘There Is No Solution. We Will Be Killed One By One:' Kashmiri Pandits, 4 Years After Modi Govt Revoked J&K Autonomy
  21. Segregated & Unequal: New Research Reveals How Public Services Are Restricted, Denied To Muslims, Dalits In Ghettoised Localities
  22. A Prime Ministerial Scheme To Stop Poverty Due to Health Crises Is Helping Poorest Indians The Least
  23. Tracking Life & Death: Changes To A 54-Year-Old Law May Exclude Millions Of Poorest Indians & States
  24. From Manipur, A Peace Activist’s Account Of State Criminality & Culpability
  25. Govt Whataboutery & Inaction: Why Hate Speech Persists Despite The Supreme Court Wanting To Stop It
  26. Why Former Police Chiefs, Judge Say Arrest Of 3 Muslim Teens, Demolition of Their Home By MP Govt Is Illegal
  27. Kashmiri Women Getting Help For Heroin Addiction Fight A Long & Lonely Battle
  28. Anti-Pollution Norms & State Policies Cripple UP’s Leather Industry, Pushing Muslim Livelihoods To The Brink
  29. How Majoritarian Policies in UP & Maharashtra Sent Meat Industries Into Decline, Ended Thousands Of Jobs
  30. Amidst A Govt-Enforced Data Vacuum, Stagnating Wages & Rising Costs Increase Economic Distress In Rural India
  31. Islamophobia In The Indian Workplace: A Tale Of 3 Muslim Women
  32. State Selectively Releases Murders, Rapists, As Thousands Languish In Prison, Revealing India’s Convict Problem
  33. Why Defending The Retention Of Sedition, Endorsing Govt Censorship Powers Do Not Defy India’s Constitution
  34. Quibbling Over Detail, Paperwork, MP Govt Rejects Compensation for 78% Of Front-Line Workers Who Died During Covid
  35. New Study Reveals How The National Security Act Denies Justice & Fairness To Detenus In Uttar Pradesh
  36. Long, Difficult Process Of Identifying The Dead Prolongs Grief & Horror For Odisha Train-Crash Families
  37. After 63 Days In Jail Under Anti-Terrorism Law For Poem On Defiance, Assam Poet Now Writes Odes To Love
  38. Detained Hundreds Of Kilometres From Home, Kashmiri Prisoners In Uttar Pradesh & Haryana Await Trial With No Access To Families
  39. Why Making Marital Rape A Crime Is Unlikely To Provide Married Women The Legal Backing To Say No To Forced Sex
  40. After The Coromandel Train Wreck: Unemployed, Young Migrant Workers Struggling With Health Costs & Lost Wages
  41. 500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution
  42. In Kashmir, A Woman Was Paid Rs 25 A Month For 30 Years To Sweep A Govt School. Then, Her Wages Stopped, But She Keeps Sweeping
  43. In India, World’s Internet Shutdown Capital, Blockades Undermine Livelihood, Food Security, Human Rights
  44. A ‘Dehumanising’ Year, Says Afreen Fatima, As She Fights Cases Being Heaped On Her Father, A UP Social Activist
  45. Law Commission’s Sedition Report Influenced By 2018 Book That Favours Retention Of Misused, Colonial-Era Law
  46. 1000 Days Without Trial Or Bail For Umar Khalid, Denied Bail Despite False Allegations, Fabrications & Inconsistencies
  47. A Dalit Minor Was Gang Raped Twice, UP Police Ignored The First Time
  48. Amidst Manipur Violence, A Propaganda War Between Kukis, Meiteis Emerged Through Scores Of New Twitter Handles
  49. Manipur On Knife’s Edge After 4 Weeks Of Riots, Murder & Ethnic Cleansing, Years Of Progress At Risk
  50. India’s Transition To EVs Threatens Millions Of Auto Sector Jobs, At A Time Of Rising Nationwide Unemployment
  51. Laws, Health Policy Fail To Stem India’s Tsunami Of Mental Health, As Stress Claims Victims, Cuts Productivity
  52. India’s National Human Rights Commission At Risk Of Losing Top-Level Ranking For Second Time Since 1999
  53. Defrauded By Middlemen, Cheated By Grooms: Abuse Of UP Govt’s Cash-For-Wedding Scheme Hurts Poor Women
  54. Meet The Doctor Who Challenged Patanjali’s Misleading Advertisements & Won
  55. CBI Case Against Environmental Lawyer Has No Evidence To Back Allegations Made But Will Deter Litigation
  56. Why A Supreme Court Order To Provide Subsidised Food To 80 Million Workers May Not Help Them
  57. Hindutva, A Tampered Research Paper & PM’s Endorsement Drive Effort To ‘Revive’ Kumbh Mela In Trinamool-Ruled West Bengal
  58. A Trail Of Blood Between 2 Coastal Karnataka Villages Explains Why Bajrang Dal Ban Became An Election Issue
  59. ‘I Have A Lot Of Strength In Me:’ Muzaffarnagar Gang-Rape Survivor's 10-Year-Haul For Justice Ends, 2 Convicted
  60. Thousands Traumatised In New Delhi: As Law Is Ignored, Homes & Lives Are Torn Apart For G20 Summit
  61. The Wait To Free Bandi Singhs: Why Punjabis Want 9 Men Convicted Of Murder, Terrorism To Be Released
  62. Gujarat Riot Survivor Bilkis Bano's 20-Year Wait For Justice Is Reopened—Again—In The Supreme Court
  63. Sugar’s Bitter Truth: No Contracts, No Fair Wages, No Healthcare For Migrant Workers As Climate Risks, Accidents Rise
  64. Marriage Equality: Govt Says Only Parliament Can Change Laws. Here Are 5 Times The Supreme Court Did
  65. Karnataka Farmers From 17 Villages Displaced For Residential Project: Farms Razed, Compensation Under Colonial-Era Law
  66. As Covid Flares Again, India’s Disabled, Serviced By Quacks Or Not At All, Struggle To Access Healthcare
  67. ‘It Hurts, It Pains:’ A Christian Dalit Activist On Combating Online Violence, Losing Faith In Dravidian Politics
  68. How The Lack Of A Law For Refugees In India Affects Hindu Tamil Asylum Seekers From Sri Lanka
  69. Free At Last: The Story Of A Child Who Spent 25 Years On Death Row & Emerged A Free Man
  70. How Meta, YouTube, Twitter & Instagram Ignored Their Own Hate-Speech Standards To Give Hindutva Its Latest Star
  71. A 'Heckler's Veto': No Legal Basis For Police Stopping A Muslim Man Praying With Friends & Family At His Godown In Uttar Pradesh
  72. In Madhya Pradesh, 3 Muslim Academics Face Criminal Cases Filed By Hindu Right, Backed By State Govt
  73. ‘We Sent 300 Tonnes Of Mercury Waste Back To The US. It Was A Milestone For Anti-Dumping Campaigns’
  74. As J&K Govt Reactivates A Controversial Civilian Militia, Local Hindus In An Isolated Village Feel Safer
  75. Caste On Campus: Dalit Students Face Exclusion, Alienation In India’s Higher Education Institutions
  76. After 54 Days In Jail On Unclear Charges, MP Tribal Muslim Law Student Gets Bail But Plunges Into Trauma, Tears
  77. Gig Work Seen As Economic Revolution, But 8 Million Indian Gig Workers Are Not Considered Employees, Denied Social Security
  78. The Myriad Things Indian Muslims Are Changing To Survive Overt & Covert Hostility In Their Changing Country
  79. Crumbling J&K Mountainside & Homes Destroyed Are Latest Evidence Of India’s Himalayan Blunders
  80. Love, Sex & ‘Chosen’ Family: Inside India’s Battle For The Right to Marry A Partner Of The Same Sex
  81. How A Men’s Rights NGO Got The Delhi High Court To Hear Arguments To Keep Marital Rape Legal
  82. How Indian Media Mainstreamed The ‘Land Jihad’ Propaganda
  83. Teen Reporter Arrested For Questioning Minister Gets Bail, Faces Police Cases In Latest UP Media Assault
  84. At A Time Of Economic Distress, J&K Land Eviction Drive Imperils Livelihoods
  85. ‘Even On the Day of the Vote, They Were Hatching Plans to Delay or Undermine the Legislation’
  86. Leading Indian Fact-Checker Receives Series Of Online Death Threats After Busting Fake News
  87. After High Court Verdict, Thousands Fear Homelessness, As Dehradun Government Begins Illegal Evictions
  88. Why Supreme Court Decision To Probe The Adani-Hindenburg Matter Is Good News For The Govt
  89. Young Dalit Comedians Keen To Make It On Their Own Learn To Live With Trolling & Caste Discrimination
  90. 50 Years On, Vimla Bahuguna On The Chipko Movement, Her Late Husband & Ties That Bind
  91. Unpaid, Unemployed & Undermined: Why NREGA Workers From Across India Are Agitating In Delhi
  92. Veteran Journalist P Sainath On Independence, Freedom & The Unknown Indians Who Fought For It
  93. As Unusual Heat & Rising Temperatures Threaten India’s Poor, Low-Cost, Low-Tech Cooling Offers Hope For Slums
  94. How An Aadhaar Fraud Forces The Poor Into Paying For Welfare Schemes They Do Not Want
  95. A Kashmiri Woman With Disabilities, On The Frontline Of The Anganwadi Workers Protests, Is Unafraid
  96. Solutions To Assam’s Child-Marriage Problem In Schools, Not In Mass Arrests Ordered By CM
  97. In The Jamia Discharge, A Challenge To The Delhi Riots Conspiracy Case
  98. As Adivasis Attack Christians, Hindu Leaders Seek Denial Of Scheduled Tribe Benefits For Converts
  99. Why A Muslim Man In Gujarat Faces Life In Prison For The Crime Of Transporting Cattle
  100. ‘Indian Women’s Education Rates Are Rising, Fertility Falling, But A Marriage Penalty Keeps Them From Working’
  101. Kashmir’s Proxy Sarpanches: Women Elected To Reserved Seats Have Become Rubber Stamps For Men
  102. ‘Problem of Christian, Love Jihad’: A Future Judge’s Bias Reveals Supreme Court Collegium’s Enduring Opacity
  103. Men’s Rights Activism In India Is Evolving, Intersecting With Right Wing Campaigns
  104. Food Companies, Govt Officials Steal Funds From Health Schemes Meant To Combat Malnutrition In Madhya Pradesh
  105. Why Courts Are Ignoring Concerns Of Planted Evidence In The Bhima-Koregaon Prosecution
  106. How Modi Govt Ended Or Slashed Financial Aid To Minority School, Higher Education & Foreign Study Schemes
  107. ‘A Small Indian Elite Controls Narrative, Talk Of India’s Decade Is Juvenile Economics’
  108. Maharashtra Farmers Use ‘Water Budgeting’ To Improve Yields
  109. Supreme Court Acquittal Of 8 Men On Death Row Reveals Failures by Police, Prosecution & Lower Courts
  110. 20 Years After Gujarat Riots, Muslim Survivors From Naroda Patiya Live Near A Mountain Of Trash
  111. Why Maharashtra Govt Move To Track Interfaith Marriages Is Unconstitutional & Further Endangers Women
  112. India’s Demotion To Electoral Autocracy Is Fair, Repeated Dismissal Of International Surveys Unhelpful, Global Ranking Expert Explains
  113. A 33-Year-Old’s Disappearance After Detention In Kashmir Reveals Latest Abuse Of Law For ‘Disturbed Areas’
  114. ‘Number Of Hindu-Muslim Couples Seeking Help To Get Married Has Fallen. Such Is The Fear’
  115. Harassed, Raided, Starved Of Funding, Criminalised: The Year Kashmir’s Media Went Silent
  116. Modi Govt Warns 2 NGOs Seeking Donations From Citizens, Letters Show
  117. 2022: The Year Hate Got Away Scot-Free In India
  118. Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani On Winning Elections Without Hate & Division
  119. The Trauma Of Kharak Satbari: How Home Demolitions Without Due Process Wrecked Lives In India’s Capital
  120. Why New Modi Govt SchemeTo Let Donors Directly Pay India’s TB Patients Is Unlikely To Help End The Disease By 2025
  121. ‘India Only Seems To Wake Up To Reality When There Is An Atrocity’
  122. For Andhra, Telangana Farmers Hit By Climate Change, A Helpline Works To Stop Suicides
  123. The Flawed Trial of Afzal Guru & The Right To Legal Defence
  124. Condemning The Condemned: How India’s Death Penalty Targets The Vulnerable
  125. How Gujarat’s Rural Land Digitisation Programme Was Botched, Starting A Fresh Trail Of Land Litigation
  126. Arrest Of A Trinamool Spokesperson & The Selective Criminalisation Of Social Media In India
  127. Delhi Muslim Student Twice Arrested & Jailed. Not Enough Incriminating Material: Judge
  128. In Chhattisgarh, Adivasis Allege State Coercion, Demand Lawful Mining At One Of India’s Richest Iron-Ore Mines
  129. Homes Already Lost To Coastal Erosion, Kerala Fisherfolk Protesting Adani Port Say Their Livelihoods Are At Stake
  130. ‘My Village Has Never Seen Light:’ Madhya Pradesh’s Adivasis Wait For Electricity
  131. How The Law Criminalises Forest Dwellers In Madhya Pradesh, Makes Them Face Long Trials For Hunting, Collecting Honey
  132. Hit By Catastrophic Floods, Pakistan Plays Lead Role In Securing Global ‘Loss-&-Damage’ Fund
  133. A Professor's Supreme Court Bail Hearing Is A Bellwether Case For Govt's Use of India's Anti-Terror Law
  134. Why India’s Laws Make Abortion Traumatic & Dangerous For Minors
  135. India’s New Telecom Bill Not Only Preserves 137-Year-Old Colonial Powers But Gives Govt Sweeping New Ones
  136. The Consequences Of Excluding India’s Oldest Mountain Range From The 2041 Plan For India’s Capital
  137. After SC Stopped His Release, G N Saibaba Wrote He Could No Longer Bear The Pain
  138. Recent Raids On The Wire Contrast With Easy Acceptance of Incendiary, Fabricated News By Govt-Friendly Media
  139. ‘Privacy Of Personal Data Is A Fundamental Right; Police Cannot Touch Your Personal Data Without Your Consent’
  140. Indian Women Are Sold & Resold For Marriage, Sexual Slavery, Child-Bearing, Cheap Labour
  141. A Fishing Village’s Last Gasp, As Climate Change, Industry & Pollution Sound A Death Knell
  142. In Police Denial That Hindu Mob’s Killing Of Muslim In UP Village Was A Communal Attack, A Pattern Emerges
  143. Andhra Govt Helps Itself To Citizens’ Data To Design Policy Despite Loss Of Privacy, Data Leaks
  144. Tamil Nadu Uses Preventive Detentions As A Substitute For Policing, Madras High Court Does Little
  145. Islamic Preachers Latest To Be Detained Under Feared J&K Law, As Kashmir Crackdown Widens
  146. In A Divisive Time, An Indian Politician Quits Her Party, Champions Human Rights Over All Else
  147. 745 Days: Journalist Siddique Kappan Is Still In Jail Because Of A 2018 Case He Was Never Linked To Before His Arrest
  148. ‘The Role Of The Regulator Is To Protect The Public, Not Pharma Companies’
  149. Under New Madhya Pradesh Law, 12-year-old Muslim Boy On Trial Before Tribunal To Recover Riot Damage
  150. The Right To Choose Vs The Need For Discipline: How Justices Differed On Hijab-Ban Verdict
  151. Rohingya Refugees Recall Desperate Conditions With No Legal Recourse In Delhi Detention Centre
  152. Delhi Riots: How BJP Leaders Created A Powderkeg That Led To 2020 Hindu-Muslim Violence
  153. Meet The Lawyer Behind India’s Historical Judgement On Abortion Rights
  154. What The Nobel Peace Prize Buzz Means For The Misinformation Battle In India, A Fact Checker Explains
  155. Inside The Shadowy, Deadly World Of Kashmir’s Teenage ‘Hybrid Militants’
  156. The Supreme Court’s Tough Options In Interpreting The Law That Decides Between Life Or Death
  157. Forced Marriage, Domestic violence: Kashmiri Women Reach To A ‘Close Friend’ For Help
  158. An Important First Step On The Road to Reproductive Justice, But Safe Abortion Remains Out Of Reach
  159. A Muslim Journalist, Wrongfully Incarcerated On Terror Charges, Fought Back By Reporting On The Hindu Right
  160. After Decades In Jail, A 95-Year-Old Terror Convict Mounts A Legal Battle To Go Home To Die
  161. The Gujarat Model: Crackdown On Dissent Gathers Pace, Activists Threatened, Arrested, Externed
  162. A High Court Judge, Called ‘The Phantom’ Of West Bengal, Pushes The Boundaries Of Judicial Propriety
  163. ‘Now I Get To Speak Out About What Is Happening To The Freedom Of Expression In India’
  164. How Kerala’s Tea Plantation Workforce Was Reduced to Itinerant Labour In A Global Economy
  165. Meet The Lawyers Helping Poor, Bengali-Speaking Muslims Accused Of Being Foreigners Prove Citizenship
  166. A Decade Of Resisting Law That Gives Adivasis Rights Over Forests = Climate Disasters For Himachal Pradesh
  167. Dowry Was Banned 60 Years Ago. But Cases Are Rising, While Grieving Families Find Justice Harder Than Ever
  168. Minister Says New Forest Laws Don’t Dilute Tribal Rights. They Do—And Govt Planned Dilution since 2019
  169. The Rising Intimidation of India’s Muslims & The Criminalisation of Eating, Praying, Loving & Doing Business
  170. Sleep Deprivation, Slapping, Miming Sexual Acts: Inside The Murky World Of Ragging In Indian Colleges
  171. Legal Battle Ahead For UP Muslim Restaurateur Arrested For Selling Chicken In Paper With Hindu Dieties
  172. After 5 Years In Jail, 121 Chhattisgarh Adivasis Are Set Free But Find Freedom Hard To Regain
  173. Laws Are Altered, As Bullet & Freight Trains Set To Rip Through Maharashtra’s Fruit Basket
  174. Religious Conversion In Punjab: Not All Churchgoers Are Christian & That Makes Majority Sikhs Nervous
  175. Why India’s Stressed Farmers Have Restarted Protests: Modi Repealed Laws, But His Grand Promise Has Failed
  176. Why Siddique Kappan’s Bail Plea Is A Bellwether Case For Indian Journalism & India’s Justice System
  177. Public Protest In Bengaluru Is Now Confined—If The Police Allow—To A Small Park, Invisible To The Public
  178. As Temperatures Rise, Men Descending Into Hot, Noxious Sewers Are In Greater Danger Than Ever
  179. Jailed For Being The ‘Mastermind’ Of Prayagraj Violence, Muslim Activist Was Known For Keeping The Peace
  180. A 109-Year-Old Demand For A Tribal Homeland, Spread Across 4 States In The Heart Of India, Is Being Revived
  181. Lots Of Speeches, But No Action In Cases Of National Importance: The Legacy of Chief Justice Ramana
  182. Why Hundreds Of Kashmiri Scholars Are Rejected For Teaching Jobs In Kashmir Universities, Colleges
  183. ‘We Are All Bilkis’: Lawyer Of 2002 Gangrape Survivor Says Onus To Fix Gujarat Remission Order Is Now On State & Society
  184. Objecting To Multi-Faith Prayer, Hindus In UP City Feared Conversion Of Children, Said Islamic Prayer Corrupts Them
  185. As Islamophobia Infects Indian Newsrooms, Muslim Journalists Persevere Amid The Bigotry
  186. Death, Absurdity & Despair In The Sewers of India
  187. A 16-year-old Law With Military Powers Threatens Homes & Livelihoods Of Fisherfolk On Manipur’s Loktak Lake
  188. In Kashmir, Wracked By Violence, Stress & Unemployment, Soaring Heroin Addiction Is Destroying Its Youth
  189. The Twisted Course Of Justice That Landed An Activist & Former Police Officer In Jail
  190. Another Strike Against The Free Press: Why A Journalist Who Stood With Adivasis Was Arrested
  191. MLA With A Long Criminal Record & Penchant For Anti-Muslim Hate Speeches Is Vital To BJP's Telangana Push
  192. As India Gets First Adivasi President, Plan To Boost Tribal Healthcare Has Been Ignored For 5 Years
  193. In Deferring To Govt Over The Money Laundering Law, The Supreme Court Has Created A New Normal
  194. They Know I Won’t Stop Doing What I Do: Fact-Checker Zubair On His Arrest, Rumour-Driven Interrogation & Life After
  195. Pipelines Reach More Homes, But As Climate Changes, India’s Women Still Make Long Marches For Water
  196. ‘This Is A Life Or Death Thing. The Climate Emergency Is Quickly Degrading Life Support Systems On Earth’
  197. As India Says It Has No Unified Record Of Internet Shutdowns, New Report Reveals Impact On J&K, North East
  198. How ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ Videos Are Used To Thwart Muslims Contesting Elections, Criminalise Their Supporters
  199. Indian Govt Stops Kashmiri Journalists From Travelling Overseas, Gives No Reason
  200. With Fact & Faith, A Growing Band Of Concerned Citizens Battles Hate Speech In India
  201. Lack Of Evidence In Cases Against Prayagraj Activists For June Violence, All Involved In Anti-Govt Dissent
  202. As J&K Govt Vows Justice For Slain Officer, Family Wants His Wish Fulfilled: To Bring Their Dead Son Home
  203. Blackmail, Harassment & Threats: How Illegal Practices By India’s Digital Moneylenders Are Soaring
  204. Jailed Or Punished, With Or Without Trial: How The State Misuses The Law Against India’s Inconvenient Citizens
  205. Hundreds Are Stranded, As Modi Aide Governing Lakshadweep Withdraws Ships To Indian Mainland
  206. What 8.5 Million Tweets Targeting Rana Ayyub Tell Us About Online Violence & The Failure To Stop It
  207. A Newspaper Op-Ed Calls Journalists Terror Sympathisers: Paints A Target On The Backs Of What Is Left Of Kashmir's Free Press
  208. How Modi Govt Tweaked Appointment Rules To Enable Second Terms For Heads Of 2 Powerful Commissions
  209. Jailed For 2 Years In Saudi Arabia For Sending Phone No. to Iran, Kashmiri Man Gets No Help From Indian Govt
  210. How Delhi, UP Police & Judges Violated SC Guidelines In Arresting Alt News Co-Founder Mohd Zubair
  211. Raped, Mocked By Police For Seeking Justice: India’s Rape Laws Do Not Cover Transwomen
  212. Art As Profanity: Why The Arrest Of Vlogger Roddur Roy Differs From Others Who Abused Politicians
  213. NREGA Workers Are Losing Wages Because Of Mandatory App Attendance
  214. How A Hindu Organisation Facing Criminal Charges Is Menacing Churches In Andhra Pradesh
  215. Vulnerable To Frauds, Fakes & Breaches: Why Govt Auditor Served A Warning To Aadhaar
  216. Millions Of Children Will Soon Need Aadhaar IDs To Access Their Right To A Nutritious Meal
  217. Questions The Special Investigation Team Probing Gujarat Riots Did Not Ask Narendra Modi in 2010
  218. As Millions Devastated By Assam Floods, Double Tragedy For Evicted Bengali-Speaking Muslims
  219. Backroom Deals & Police Intimidation Of Workers, As Assam Tea Estate Is Razed For New Airport
  220. ‘The Gods Are Not Going To Save Us Just Because We Are Married To Them’
  221. ‘We Don’t Live A Normal Life [In Kashmir], So Why Should We Become Scapegoats For A Political Party?’
  222. Bengali Muslims Harassed & Detained In Bengaluru, As Police Sweeps For Illegal Bangladeshi Migrants Intensify
  223. Police Surveillance To Fake Criminal Cases: The Perils Of Exercising The Right To Information In Madhya Pradesh
  224. After Kanpur Violence, Lives Of Poor Muslims Upended, No Justice In Sight
  225. Pursuing Unity Through Lathis: The Pitfalls Of Arming The State To Secure Social Harmony
  226. Another BJP State, Another Demolition: In Assam, Kin Of Muslim Man Who Died In Custody Face Terror Case
  227. Since Ram Navami Violence, Gujarat’s Muslim Women Wage A Silent Battle, Allege State Bias
  228. ‘It Could Happen To Any Muslim Family’: A Student Activist On Her Father’s Arrest & Demolition Of Her Home
  229. A Fact Checker Faces Threats, Criminal Cases For Drawing Attention To Hate Speech By Hindu Extremists
  230. As Telangana Industrialises, Names Of Hundreds Of Farmers Disappear From A Govt Land-Records Database
  231. Removal Of Hindu Deities By Govt Vs Hindu Claims On A Mosque: A Varanasi Judge’s Conflicting Decisions
  232. India’s Proposed New Privacy Law Will Make The Right To Privacy Hard To Enforce
  233. Debunking a 'Sealed' Myth: Only 17 Political Parties Of 105 In EC List Got Electoral Bonds
  234. Mumbai Principal Alleges Bias Against Her Hijab In Law College Run By Politician Popular Among Muslims
  235. 4 Years After SC Decriminalised Homosexuality, Police Violence Against LGBTQIA+ People Hasn’t Stopped
  236. As The Land Collapses Beneath Them In Bengal’s Mining Belt, Thousands Who Lost Homes Await Long-Promised Rehabilitation
  237. To Demolish Gyanvapi, A Deluge Of Copy-Paste Petitions Aims To Overwhelm Muslim Defendants & India’s Judiciary
  238. Strike By Zomato ‘Partners’ Wins No Concessions But Brings A Benefit Unfamiliar To India’s Gig Workers
  239. Karnataka’s New Anti-Conversion Law Will Further Embolden Hindu Extremists Against Minorities
  240. Muslims & Dalits Face The Worst Residential Segregation & Discrimination In Urban Cities, Study Confirms
  241. A Flag, A Freedom Fighter & Hindu-Muslim Clashes: A Divided BJP Finds Common Cause In Rajasthan
  242. MP Dam Will Submerge Adivasi Lands, Homes: ‘Na Chahi’ Say Protestors
  243. Gyanvapi Mosque & Similar Litigation Illegal Under A 31-Year-Old Law, Yet Courts Keep Hearing Cases
  244. UP’s Growing Attacks On Christians: Police Use Bible, Prayer Groups As Evidence Of Illegal Conversion By Pastors
  245. How Hindu Extremist Bajrang Muni Has Terrorised A Muslim Family In UP
  246. As Courts Grant Bail, J&K Govt Uses 43-Year-Old Preventive Detention Law To Keep Hundreds In Jail
  247. India’s Unemployment Crisis: The Distress Is Worse Than The Data Suggest
  248. Hold The Celebrations: Supreme Court's ‘Hopes & Expects’ Order Misses Opportunity To Judicially Review Sedition
  249. In A Time Of Religious Tension, Bengaluru’s Police & Religious Leaders Push Inter-Faith Traditions
  250. After 8 Years Of Pleas, Kashmiri Pandits In Haryana Say BJP Govt Won’t Give Them Financial Assistance
  251. Friends, Family & Favours: Why The Karnataka Wildlife Board Refused To Create A Protected Area
  252. Alienated & Giving Up On Their Dreams: What Karnataka’s Hijab Ban Has Done To Muslim Women Students
  253. How MP’s New Excise Law Criminalises Traditional Liquor Brewers, Even Contains A Death Sentence
  254. A Construction Worker With A Masters In Chemistry: In ‘Naya Kashmir’, A Spiralling Unemployment Crisis
  255. Pune Police Evade The Law By Dodging Questions On Use Of Israeli Spyware On Indian Citizens
  256. Dead-End Jobs, One Room Quarters: Why Islamophobia Won't Get The Kashmiri Pandits Home
  257. In A Riot-Torn MP Town, Hindus Organise An Economic Boycott Of Muslims
  258. Mamata Banerjee’s ‘Model’ To Gather Land For Industry Bypasses Critical Requirements Of The Law
  259. Declared Illegal Immigrants, Detained For 18 Months, Then Found To Be Indian: An Assam Muslim Family’s Trauma
  260. Demolitions As Collective, Illegal Punishment, With Mainly Muslim Properties Destroyed After Riots
  261. Pushed To The Wall, Jahangirpuri’s Muslims Demand Fair Treatment By Judiciary, Police & Media
  262. Life Expectancy of Adivasis, Dalits & Muslims Substantially Lower Than Upper- Caste Hindus: New Studies
  263. 24 Children–Mostly Adivasi Girls–Go Missing in MP Every Day, But It Isn’t Considered An Extraordinary Situation
  264. 3 Months After Dalit Journalist Was Abused, Threatened With Death For Burning Manusmriti, No Arrests
  265. Kashmir’s New Electoral Map Boosts Hindu Electoral Influence & Reduces Muslim Representation
  266. Inside The Online Ecosystem Of Misogyny That Campaigns Against A Law To Punish Men For Raping Their Wives
  267. Why A Journalist & 7 Theatre Artistes Were Attacked, Paraded In Underwear By Madhya Pradesh Police
  268. ‘When Will Papa Come Back?’: Family, Ambition & The Death of 2 Young Dalits In A Lucknow Sewer
  269. Kerala Police’s Social Media Surveillance Reveals A Double Standard As Hindu Extremists Go Unpunished
  270. Anti-Terror Law Used Against Kashmir Shia Mourners, 8 Arrested 7 Months After Muharram Procession
  271. Muslim Vendors Scarred By Delhi’s So-Called Meat Ban, Terrified & Confused About The Future
  272. Why Delhi’s Ban On Selling Meat During Hindu Festival Is Illegal & Violates India’s Constitution
  273. Devoted To Jamia For Decades, Alumni President’s Two-Year-Long Incarceration Leaves A Void
  274. Killed For Sporting A Moustache: Dalits In Rajasthan’s Feudal Villages Face Rising Tide Of Caste Violence
  275. In Punjab, Caste Discrimination In Key Employment Guarantee Programme Denies Minimum Wage To Dalits, Women
  276. Why Journalist Rana Ayyub, Barred By The Govt From Leaving The Country, Won't Stop Writing Or Tweeting
  277. How Hindu Extremists, Aided By The Govt, Are Tearing Apart Ancient Ties Between Muslims & Hindus
  278. Karnataka’s Govt Is Misinterpreting & Widening A High Court Order & Its Own Ruling On A College Hijab Ban
  279. Delicate Truce Along LoC Completes A Year, Kashmiris On The Border Now Seek A New Normal
  280. Jailed For 5 Months After Reporting Floundering Govt Hospitals, MP Journalist Intends To Fight Govt In Court
  281. Beaten, Abused By Inmates & Labelled A ‘Terrorist’, Former Lawyer On Bail In Delhi Riots Case Expresses Faith In Constitution
  282. UP Police Officer’s Lynching: Why A Vigilante Who Led A Murderous Hindu Mob Isn’t Charged With Murder
  283. In Karnataka’s Biggest Solar Park, As Land & Livelihoods Lost, A Warning To India’s Solar Dreams
  284. In State That Gave India Laws Guaranteeing Info & Work, New Law To Hold Govt Accountable Is Put On Hold
  285. Why Kashmir’s Battered Women Want Orders From Reluctant Courts To Share Households With Their Abusers
  286. UP’s Selective & Soft Prosecution Of A Union Minister’s Son Accused In Killing Of 8 People By SUV
  287. At UP’s Hate-Crime Scenes, Lack Of Justice Leaves Enduring Fear, As Hindus, Muslims Drift Apart
  288. ‘In Karnataka, Cultural Practices Basavanna Fought Against Are Getting Reintroduced’
  289. The Bail Order That Freed Delhi Riots Accused Ishrat Jahan Walks A Legal Tightrope
  290. Why The Percentage Of Muslim Prisoners In India’s Jails Is Disproportionate to Their Population In India
  291. How The Delhi Police Are Disproving Their Own Case Against Political Activist Umar Khalid
  292. As Yogi Returns, Families Of UP Hate-Crime Victims Narrate Long, Fearful Tryst With His Justice System
  293. Forced Burial Of Dalit Sanitation Worker Who Fought For His Rights Reveals Endemic Bihar Police Violence
  294. Journalists In UP Face A Flood Of Criminal Cases From Yogi Adityanath’s Govt
  295. Driven Home By Covid, Stranded During Taliban Takeover, Hundreds Of Afghan Students Await Return to India
  296. The Security Playbook Used To Erode Democracy In Modi’s India & How The Tide Might Turn
  297. Inside The Online Ecosystem Shielding Modi Govt & Mocking Indian Students In Ukraine
  298. The Legal Exception Forcing Married Indian Women Into A Cycle Of Sexual Abuse and Spousal Violence
  299. Jailed For 22 Months, Former Jamia Alumni President Asks If Stringent Laws Are Only For Muslims
  300. Led By Complaints From Hindu Groups, Police Violate SC Rules, Accuse 27 Young Assamese Muslims Of Sedition
  301. Govt Critics, Dissenters, Anti-CAA Activists: In Assam, Anti-BJP Actions Seen As Acts Of Sedition
  302. Greed & Power Override Myth As India’s Poorest State Strives To End The Hunting Of Witches By 2023
  303. Behind The Hijab: The Karnataka Girls Who Will Not Be Intimidated, Segregated, Told What To Wear By Hindutva Groups
  304. Election Commission Gives 2 Voting Rights But Punjab Govt Only 1 Salary For Conjoined Twins
  305. With Arrest of Editor After Reporting Both Sides Of Story, Govt Escalates Criminalisation Of Journalism In Kashmir
  306. The Incomplete Project Of E-Shram, India’s Database Of Unorganised Workers
  307. Abetted By State Govt, Hindu Group In Himachal Pradesh Burns Crops, Demands Eviction Of Muslim Tribe
  308. Madhya Pradesh Govt Wants Adivasis To Complain Against Moneylenders. Here’s Why They Cannot
  309. 2 Months Before Polls, Uttarakhand’s BJP Govt Made Mining Easier In State Ravaged By Landslides, Deforestation
  310. Two Days After Journalist’s Paper On Hate Crime In India Is Published, Forbes Middle East Fires Her
  311. ‘There Is No Need To Fear Anyone Or Anything:’ Karnataka Student On How She Faced A Hindu Mob Alone
  312. Making Of A Maoist: Jharkhand Police Declare Villagers Wanted Maoists, Lure & Coerce Them To Surrender
  313. Hindutva Groups Ordered UP Police To File Sedition Cases, And Yogi’s Police Obeyed
  314. The Law As A Communal Weapon Of The State: Why UP’s Muslim CAA Protestors Face Sedition Cases
  315. "A Decade of Darkness": Our Sedition Database
  316. A Decade of Darkness: Our New Database Reveals How A Law Discarded By Most Democracies Is Misused In India
  317. Police & Govt Ally With Hindu Groups Intimidating, Attacking Christians In MP, 0.29% Of State Population
  318. 57 Years After India Gave Them Refuge, Former Refugees From East Pakistan Threatened By Indian Xenophobia
  319. Between Two Steel Projects: Why Conflict Is Brewing In A Quiet Odisha Village’s Betel Groves
  320. ‘We Must Never Give Up Hope. It Is Tempting To Give Up Or To Give In, But We Must Never Despair’
  321. An Arbitrary Crackdown On Foreign Donations Cripples NGOs At A Time When India Needs Them Most
  322. Climate Change Makes The Hard Life Of India’s Invisible Women Farmers Harder
  323. The Djokovic Deportation: Why Australia’s Hardline Appears Soft Compared to Assam’s
  324. Adityanath’s Cow-Protection Drive Is Killing UP’s Cattle Trade & Devastating Farms
  325. Corruption Allegations Felled The UPA, But Modi’s Bribery-Fighting Lokpal Has Little To Do
  326. 24 Months After 5 Killed In Meerut In Police Crackdown On Anti-CAA Protests, No Probe & No Answers
  327. 84 Days In Jail, 7 Bail Hearings Postponed, Kashmiri Students Languish In UP Jail For WhatsApp Congratulations
  328. ‘I Am Ready To Put On My Black Coat’: Lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, Out On Bail After 3 Years In Jail
  329. 5 Years Of UP’s Animal Slaughter Ban: Poor Pushed Out Of Meat Trade, Meat Out Of Meals
  330. ‘If You Want A Hindu State, You Will Have To Destroy Democracy’
  331. 72-Hour Shifts In Hospitals, Junior Docs In Delhi Battle Third Wave Fatigued & Stressed
  332. Fair Game: To Throttle Dissent, Kashmir Police Now Arrest Women For Peaceful Protest
  333. As Hindu Extremists Repeatedly Call For Muslim Genocide, The Police Ignore An Obvious Conspiracy
  334. Assam's Hasina Bhanu Won A 20-Year Legal Battle To Prove She Was Indian. It Came At A Cost
  335. Why Proposals For New Constituencies in J&K Spur Fears Of Muslim Marginalisaton
  336. Denied Lawful Compensation For Land Acquired for Noida International Airport, Farmers Contest Modi’s Claims
  337. Why The Hindu Extremists Behind #BulliBai Feel Threatened By These Indian Muslim Women
  338. Families Splintered, Days In Detention Turn Into Months For Rohingya Refugees In India’s Capital
  339. India’s Potato-Chip Tussle: How Gujarat Farmers Won A Battle—But Not The War—Against Pepsico
  340. ‘First They Came For Our Lifestyle, Then Our Livelihoods, Now Our Right To Life’
  341. Why Kashmiri Journalist Sajad Gul Faces Police Cases For Doing His Job
  342. ‘Punjab Dalit Groups Supported The Farm Protests. The Ordinary Dalit Did Not.’
  343. Govt Has Cleared Linking Of Aadhaar & Voter Data. Past Experience Reveals How It Can Be Manipulated
  344. In Case Against Muslim Bangle Seller Attacked, MP Police List His Attackers As Witnesses
  345. Why Govt Move Of Raising Legal Age of Marriage For Women May Harm Instead of Benefiting Them
  346. Karnataka Releases Five-Year-Old Son Of Surrendered Naxals After Four Years In Prison
  347. 2 Years After Contentious Citizenship Law Favouring Non-Muslims, Pakistani Hindu Refugees Are Angry
  348. In Kashmir, The Random—And Rampant—Use of India’s Anti-Terrorism Law
  349. How Delhi & Raipur Ignored Expert Warnings To Clear Coal Mine In Vast Chhattisgarh Forest
  350. By Putting Civilians In Harm’s Way To Get To Militants, Army Violates Laws To Which India Is A Signatory
  351. 3 Jharkhand Widows Struggle To Get By, Years After Cow Vigilantes Lynched Their Husbands
  352. As BJP Talks Up Law Against Conversions, Attacks Against Christians Rise In Karnataka
  353. Thousands Displaced To Create India’s ‘New Singapore’ Wait Years For Unfulfilled Promises
  354. My Amnesty Experience & How Modi Govt ‘Wreaked Havoc’ On India’s NGO Sector
  355. The Rise Of India’s Police State: Shadowy New Agencies With Shadowy Powers
  356. Singled Out For Dismissal: UP Govt’s Selective Action Against Kafeel Khan Continues
  357. In Rajasthan, The Viral Video Is Used As A Tool Of Violence Against Dalits
  358. India’s Spiralling Sedition Crisis & Why A Dilution Of The Law Will Not Prevent Its Misuse
  359. ‘ I Realised That Only What The Chief Minister Wants Will Happen ’
  360. Pastors Attacked, Churches Ransacked, But Uttarakhand Police File Cases Against Victims
  361. A Fake Gunbattle In Kashmir & A Widow’s 25-Year Battle For Justice
  362. The Ostracisation & Unwavering Faith Of Sister Lucy Kalappurakkal
  363. How Odisha Government Kept The Public Out Of A Public Hearing For A Bauxite Mine
  364. To Global Criticism, Kashmiri Civil-Rights Activist Is Arrested On Terror Charges, ‘Waging War’
  365. How India’s Govt Is Setting In Place A New Structure For A Dysfunctional Parliament
  366. The J&K Govt Is Dismissing Govt Employees By Selectively Quoting The Constitution
  367. Dissenters, Victors, Still Protestors: Why Farmers Do Not Intend To Stop Protests
  368. Deepa Mohanan Won A Rare Battle Against Academic Casteism, But It Wasn’t Because Of The Law
  369. Unequal Before The Law: Bail Is The Rule For Hindu Hate Speech, Jail The Norm For Rights Campaigners
  370. Modi Govt Keeps Financial Deal With Bharat Biotech Secret, Covaxin Among World’s Costliest Vaccines
  371. The Pandemic Provides Answers To How The Supreme Court Can Be Taken Beyond New Delhi
  372. The Human Cost Of Mining Coal In A State-Run Company & Keeping India’s Furnaces Going During The Pandemic
  373. In Uttar Pradesh, The Yogi Govt's War Against Journalists Is Chilling Free Speech
  374. Since Hathras, Muslim Scholar In UP Jail With A Cardiac Condition: The ‘Next Stan Swamy’?
  375. After Tripura Muslims Faced Mob Attacks, Muslim Twitter Handles Nationwide Face Police Action
  376. The Decline Of Judicial Responsibility And The Extinguishing Of India’s Laws And Indian Lives
  377. Hashtags & Threats: A Hindutva Campaign, Police Inaction Wreck Comic Munawar Faruqui’s Shows
  378. More Vulnerable Than Ever, Construction Workers Protest Failures Of Law Meant To Protect them
  379. Small Hydro Power Projects Are Seen As Green. In The Western Ghats, Local Communities Disagree
  380. Justice For UP’s Dalit Rape Victims: A Tale Of Caste Entitlement, Police Apathy
  381. Crime As Punishment: How India’s Public Backs Extrajudicial Killings By The Police
  382. India Relies On Deforestation & An Impossible Pledge To Meet A Major Climate-Change Commitment
  383. Hit By Farm Losses, UP Farmers End Lives Waiting For Modi’s Crop Insurance
  384. Mainstream Media Caged, J&K Govt Turns The Heat On Freelancers
  385. How Cartoons Vanished From Newspapers In Kashmir
  386. Hungry Nation: Govt Outrage About Global Ranking Cannot Hide Distress In Indian Homes
  387. Remain Hungry Or Die Far From Home: The Life-Vs-Livelihood Dilemma Of Kashmir’s Migrant Workers
  388. In India’s Capital, A Muslim-Dominated Neighbourhood Has Had A Govt Hospital For 14 Years—On Paper
  389. The Prime Minister Likes Seaplanes. Environmental Laws Are Being Swept Aside For Them
  390. Rohith Vemula’s Stardust & The End Of A Dalit Teen’s Dreams
  391. Frances Haugen & Facebook’s Failure To Check Anti-Muslim Hate Speech In India
  392. ‘If Tribals Cut 1 Tree, They Are Criminals. If Thousands Of Trees Are Cut, It Is Lauded As Development’
  393. Drones To Resolve Rural Land Disputes: A Modi Govt Plan Spawns New Quarrels
  394. How Denial Of Coffee To Santosh D D Ended In Dalits Entering Temples For The First Time In A Karnataka Village
  395. How 3 Women, Child Who Travelled From Kerala To UP To Meet Kin In Jail Were Locked Up
  396. Assam’s Evictions Are Turning Skilled Bengali Muslim Farmers Into Labourers
  397. Chhattisgarh’s Adivasis Are On 300-Km March To Save The Hasdeo Forests, Latest In A Decade-Long Protest Against Coal Mining
  398. Three Years After #MeToo, The High Price Of Speaking Up
  399. Muslim Bangle Salesman Attacked In August Still In Jail, Others Like Him Scared To Travel
  400. Leading Delhi Govt Juvenile Drug Reform Home Scars The Children It Is Supposed To Protect
  401. Pushed By Protests, Govts & Courts Are Ceding—Some—Benefits To India’s Army Of Female Health Workers
  402. Kabul To Kashmir: Taliban Rule Fuels Pan-Islamic Militancy Worries
  403. Singling Out Muslims: Bihar Govt Asks Citizens To Identify, Report ‘Illegal Immigrants’
  404. Poverty, Hunger, Anaemia: Covid-19 Intensifies Hidden Epidemics
  405. ‘Prison Almost Killed Me’: A Muslim Man’s 17 Months In A Delhi Jail With A Bullet In His Shoulder
  406. How Latest Crime Data Set Back The Fight Against Modern Indian Slavery
  407. The UP Rape Victim’s Ordeal By Fire & The Impunity Of Powerful Men
  408. Abandoned By Their Country: The Tale of 2 Indian ‘Spies’ In A UAE Jail
  409. Less Than 1% Of Thousands Of Trafficked Children Were Compensated For Their Ordeal
  410. How 2 Landmark Laws Can Come Together To Make India’s Forest Communities Secure
  411. Why An Assam Teen Left Her Home In Secret, On A Cross-Country Journey To Clean Fish In An Unknown City
  412. Why Indians In Live-In Relationships Must Be Wary Of Seeking Protection From Courts
  413. 11 Years After Kashmiri Teen Died From Police Torture, No Probe, No Chargesheet. His Family Aren’t Giving Up
  414. 11 Ways The Delhi Police Have Muddied The Delhi-Riots Investigation
  415. How A Programme To Empower Adolescents In UP Changed Attitudes To Violence, Health & Education
  416. How The UP Police Stretch Criminal Law To File Criminal Cases Against Critics of Modi & Yogi
  417. Behind The BJP’s 2-Child Policies, An Anti-Muslim Agenda That Will Endanger All Indian Women
  418. Why It Is Time For India To Consider Gender-Neutral Rape Laws
  419. As India’s Gig Workers Died Of Covid-19, Their Families Received Neither Govt Nor Company Aid
  420. ‘It Is Not Hindus Or Muslims Who Are In Danger, Democracy Itself Is In Danger’
  421. In India’s Capital, With No School For 18 Months, A Learning & Nutrition Crisis Sets Back Its Poorest Children
  422. Why It Is Time To Recognise Marital Rape As A Crime
  423. Buddhist-Majority Leh & Muslim-Majority Kargil Unite To Demand Autonomy For Ladakh
  424. As India’s Abortion Law Completes 50 Years, Malayalam Cinema Shines A Light On Women’s Right To Choose
  425. How Police Use Unverified Videos To Allege Sedition
  426. The Man Who Fought Punjab’s Secret Police Cremations
  427. Not A Militant But A Terrorist: Censors Tell Kashmir Newspapers To Control The Narrative
  428. Why Gujarat’s Jaggu Bhai, A Dalit, Faces A Fine 45 Times Greater Than His Monthly Electricity Use
  429. Clearance For A Jammu Dam Reveals How Fake Govt Claims Deprive India’s Tribals Of Legal Rights
  430. As BJP & Congress Vie For Ascendancy, Rajasthan Adivasi Group Distances Itself From Hinduism
  431. Next in New Delhi’s Playbook To Quell Kashmir Dissent: No Passport For Protestors
  432. Event Calling For Genocide Against Muslims In India’s Capital Latest In An Unhindered Spiral Of Hate Speech
  433. Acquitted For Bombings in Delhi After 12 yrs, Former Medical Rep Now A Popular Faith-Healer In Kashmir
  434. Pride & Prejudice: India’s Trans People Among Worst Victims Of Covid-19
  435. The Lack Of Evidence To Confirm Obvious Environmental Damage Is Derailing Local Battles For Justice
  436. The Govt Assumes 3 Times Fewer Indians Are Trafficked Than They Actually Are
  437. The Day Mohammad Wakeel’s World Went Dark & Other Delhi Riot Tales
  438. Arrested, Denied Bail And Allegedly Tortured: The Story Of A Kashmiri Politician Who Had No Problem Being Indian
  439. How The Punjab Police Use An Anti-Narcotics Law To Land Payoffs & Sexual Favours
  440. ‘They say, ‘Truth will finally prevail’. But how long is it going to take? And how much damage is being done in the process?’
  441. India Invited These Pakistani Women Across The Border, Then Rescinded The Offer
  442. The UAPA Is One Of Many Modern-Day Avatars Of The Draconian, Colonial Rowlatt Act
  443. How 5 Reliance Workers Fighting For A Better Deal Found Themselves In Jail On Terrorism Charges
  444. Why Amnesty Has Irked Indian Govts & Why It Is Hard To Remove
  445. Rafale Deal Has ‘Systemic Elements Of International Corruption’, Against Indian National Interest: French NGO
  446. Shadow Bans, Criminal Cases, Takedowns: Inside India’s Expanding Digital Crackdown
  447. The Dalit Widows Of Punjab, Shackled To A Pillar Of Debt
  448. Law To Protect Dalits Infrequently Used In J&K, 2 Years After State Was Dismantled
  449. As Pegasus Snoop Is Revealed, India Allows Surveillance State With No Legal Safeguards
  450. As Higher-Caste Influential Hindus Turn Vegetarian, States, Govts Try To Enforce Vegetarianism
  451. Accused Of Sedition, Terrorism For A Speech, JNU Student Steadfast After 535 Days In Jail
  452. None Convicted, All Condemned: The Heavy Price Of Facing A Sedition Case
  453. How India’s Sedition Law Is Used As A Private, Political, Communal Weapon
  454. Karnataka Has More Sedition Cases Based On Social-Media Posts Than Any State. Most Are Illegal
  455. A Himalayan District With Scant Internet Works Around CoWIN App To Vaccinate People
  456. Exonerated, Still Anxious: ‘Harassed For Being Muslims’
  457. How Gujarat Police Used Islamophobia To Build Terror Case With No Evidence Against 124 Men
  458. India & Pakistan Govts United In Illegally Using Sedition Law Despite Court Warnings
  459. After Half Year In Jail, Teen Victim Of UP ‘Love-Jihad’ Law Faces Long Legal Battle
  460. The Silent Pandemic Of Violence Against India’s Women
  461. Covid-19 Triggers Cycle Of Debt For Millions Of Indian Families
  462. In Wake Of Covid-19, India’s Unfolding Pandemic Of Hunger
  463. Indians Believe In Religious Tolerance—And Segregation: New Survey
  464. The Kashmiri Stories That Modi’s New Political Dialogue Ignored
  465. In Run Up To Political Dialogue, No Respite For Kashmir’s Besieged Media
  466. How Retribution Increases Trauma Of Families Of Kashmiri Militants, Boosts Alienation
  467. Indian Judiciary’s Lack Of Representation Is A Problem For Queer Inclusion
  468. 4 Years After Muslim Teen’s Murder, A Family Keeps Faith In Slow Wheels Of Justice
  469. Death Rates In 24 UP Districts 43 Times More Than Official Covid-19 Toll
  470. How Natasha, Devangana, Asif Survived A Year In Tihar Jail
  471. Why The Pandemic Is A Child Rights Emergency In India
  472. 'An Episodic Approach To The Pandemic Is Bound To Fail'
  473. The New Child Brides Of India’s Covid-19 Pandemic
  474. ‘Religion Can Give You Identity. It Cannot Get You An Oxygen Cylinder’
  475. The Shadowy World Of The ‘Justice For Sushant Singh Rajput’ Campaign
  476. Roiled By Mass Adivasi Protests, Congress Adopts BJP Methods In Chhattisgarh
  477. Govt Think Tank Hand-Picked SC Rulings To Probe Judicial Activism
  478. India’s Vaccination Policy Is Leaving Behind Women, Poorest Indians
  479. FIRs, Threats & Censorship: UP Govt Response To Covid Surge
  480. Narendra Modi & The Myth Of The Bad Jamia Student
  481. The Central Vista Project & The Loss of The Public-Trust Doctrine
  482. Reporter, Truth-Seeker, Family Man: The Siddique Kappan You Don’t Know
  483. In Kashmir, Police Treat Pandemic As A Law-And-Order Problem
  484. Our Bodies As Evidence— 100 Indians We Lost To Covid
  485. For Defying Army Patrol, Kashmir Woman In Jail 44 Days On Terror Charges
  486. ‘Where Does All the Grief Go?’ 1,621 UP Teachers Die In Panchayat Polls
  487. After Kashmir, Delhi Sets Sights On Another Muslim-Majority Region
  488. Undocumented Tide Of Death Overwhelms Rural India As Cities Stabilise
  489. After Deadly Second Covid-19 Wave Fiasco, Third Wave Looms Over Goa
  490. Unchecked Tsunami Of Online Sexual Violence By Hindu Right Against India's Muslim Women
  491. Death, Disbelief & An Odd Resistance In UP’s Rural Hinterland
  492. How Election Commission, Political Parties Spurred The Second Covid Wave
  493. 2 Modi Govt Advisers Warned New IT Rules Beyond Scope Of Law, Were Overruled
  494. As Covid-19 Rages, J&K Moves Prisoners To Jails In Worse-Off States
  495. Burnout, Grief As Delhi's Healthcare Workers Face Covid Mayhem
  496. In UP’s Vast Agra District, Govt Ensures Death & Pandemic Go Unrecorded
  497. Manipuris Help Myanmar Refugees, Ignoring BJP Order To ‘Politely’ Turn Them Away
  498. In Uttar Pradesh, India's Covid-19 Storm Gathers Deadly Force
  499. Flood Of Islamophobia After BJP MP Publicly Names, Shames Govt Workers
  500. How One Bureaucrat Ensured Enough Oxygen For His Remote Tribal District
  501. The Inside Story Of Why Delhi’s Diplomatic Community Asked India’s Opposition For Help
  502. India’s Pandemic Set To Worsen. Infections May Double, Deaths Will Rise
  503. As Supreme Court Sat Out The Pandemic, High Courts Filled The Gaps
  504. BJP States Hiding Covid-19 Deaths Are Endangering India’s Health Response
  505. Citizens Are Plugging India’s Gaping, Governance Gaps In Covid Care
  506. In Court: Tushar Mehta Jibes, Blocks. Outside: No Oxygen & Death
  507. ‘Covid-19 Vaccines Not A Luxury.’ Former Health Secy Criticises Modi Govt Policy
  508. Modi’s Grand Insurance Scheme Prioritises Profit Over Farm Losses
  509. India’s Police Forces Turning Into Private Armies Of Elected Rulers
  510. In Bhima-Koregaon Case, More Damning Signs of Planted Evidence
  511. Why Modi Wanted To But Did Not Declare India Free Of Manual Scavenging
  512. The Hyderabad Model Of Ending Manual Scavenging Isn’t Working
  513. ‘D-’: A Report Card For Delhi’s Effort To Mechanise Sewer Cleaning
  514. The Death Of The Mehtar Brothers, & A Govt Dodging Its Own Laws
  515. The Modern Form Of Untouchability Practised By Indian Govts
  516. A Kashmiri Father Digs The Land Every Day to Find His Dead Son
  517. ‘Hindus, Muslims Have A Legacy Of Living, Working, Loving Together: Ghazala Wahab
  518. Why Attacks On Muslims Over ‘Love Jihad’, Cow Slaughter Are Soaring In Coastal Karnataka
  519. How Faruqui Co-Accused Went From Being Standup Comic To Making Plastic Bags
  520. The Rohingya Girl Whose Fate Is At The Mercy Of 3 Nations
  521. Why Seeking Public Accountability Is Deadly for Gujarati Dalits, Adivasis
  522. Why Farmers Flee Home To Live In The Slums Of India's Teeming Cities
  523. Laws Around Electronic Evidence Compromise India’s Criminal Justice System
  524. Why India's Jail System Sets Lifers Up For Failure
  525. Social-Media History Threatens Locals Seeking J&K Govt Jobs
  526. Love Jihad: Made In Kerala, Exported Nationwide
  527. ‘I Am Not Afraid Of Arrest, The Govt Can Do Whatever It Wants’
  528. A Year Since The Long Walk: Women Bear The Brunt
  529. A Year Since The Long Walk: Stuck At Home In Bihar
  530. Pakistan Backs Off, But Kashmiri Militants Die In Greater Numbers
  531. India’s Manufactured Amnesia Over Its Covid-19 Lockdown Deaths
  532. How Mamata’s Trinamool Broke The Glass Ceiling For Women In Politics
  533. Why Hidme Markam, A Voice For Adivasis, Is In Prison
  534. Govt Dilutes Environmental Safeguards—By Making Them Simpler
  535. How One Woman Broke The Silence Around Child Sexual Abuse In India
  536. 2 Custodial Deaths & Official Brutality In God’s Own Country
  537. State Intimidation Forces Kashmiri Journalists To Self-Censor
  538. The Rohingya Crackdown, Covid-19 & India’s Refugee Discomfort
  539. Digital Media Rules Violate India’s Democracy & Constitution
  540. How Hindu Groups Forced Cancellation of Theatre Festival in MP
  541. The Anatomy Of An Extrajudicial Killing In Kashmir
  542. "Better Days Are Coming. Times Change Very Fast. There Is Always Hope": Safoora Zargar
  543. How Covid-19 Helped Govt Control Your Data & You
  544. Rich, Upper-Caste Land Owners Will Benefit Most In MP Land Scheme
  545. Govt Land Barter Deal Dodges The Law, Benefits The Rich
  546. Torture, Belief & A Love Letter: Khalid Saifi’s Year In Jail
  547. Dalit Labour Leader Shiv Kumar Tortured In Custody: Govt Doctors
  548. Disha Ravi’s Sedition Case Is Only Latest Without Evidence, Reason
  549. How Munawar Faruqui’s Arrest Scarred Lives Of 4 Others
  550. Why Govt Ditched Due Process For Nodeep Kaur & Shiv Kumar
  551. India’s Man-Tiger Conflict & The Trauma Of Illegal Relocation
  552. Why Twitter Didn’t Stand Up For Freedom Of Speech In India
  553. How The Law Was Misused In Arrest Of Disha Ravi
  554. Inside India’s War To Silence The Free Press
  555. Cities Divided: How Exclusion Of Muslims Sharpens Inequality
  556. Bigotry At Home: How Delhi, Mumbai Keep Muslim Tenants Out
  557. Kashmir’s Empty Graves & The Criminalisation Of A Father's Grief
  558. The Judge Who Got Child Sex Abuse Law Wrong—3 Times
  559. New Home Ministry Move: Citizens Will Spy On Citizens Online
  560. 140 Changing Reasons For J&K’s High-Speed Internet Ban
  561. How Delhi Police Are Denying Riot-Accused A Basic Legal Right
  562. How India Cut Minimum Wages For Gulf-Bound Migrants In The Pandemic
  563. Our New Database Reveals Rise In Sedition Cases In The Modi Era
  564. As Laws Are Broken, A Fine Dust Of Despair Over Daburji & India
  565. Why Faruqui’s Bail Hearing Is A Theatre Of The Absurd
  566. Contradictory, Copycat Allegations As Evidence, MP HC Rejects Faruqui Bail
  567. How A BJP Supporter, Designated Terrorist Derailed India Farm Protest
  568. J&K’s ‘Land Jihad’ Bogey Stoked Islamophobia. But Mainly Hindus Benefited
  569. The Injustice of India’s Military Justice System
  570. Why The National Commission For Women Is Anti Indian Women
  571. Cow Laws In 10 States Empower Vigilantes. Karnataka’s Is The Latest
  572. The Real Effect Of India’s Digital Discrimination Of Rohingya Refugees
  573. Old Jokes About Hindi Song & Amit Shah = New Warrant Against Comic Faruqui
  574. Uttar Pradesh's Beacon Of Hope For India's Interfaith Couples
  575. Survivor Of ‘National Anthem’ Hate Crime In Delhi Riots Seeks Justice
  576. Muslim Comic Did Not Joke About Hindus, But ‘It Doesn’t Matter’: Police Chief
  577. Mother Seeks Killers Of Son, Beaten, Forced To Sing National Anthem By Police
  578. Copycat ‘Love-Jihad’ Laws In BJP States Shred Women’s Autonomy
  579. Arrested For ‘Love Jihad’, UP Teen Has Been In Jail For A Month
  580. Why Delhi Police Clear Diwali Concert But Stop Interfaith Love Event
  581. No Evidence, No Crime: Muslim Man In UP Arrested For Selling Shoes Is Freed
  582. Muslim Stand-Up Comic Jailed—For Jokes He Did Not Crack
  583. What India Legally Owes 1.9 Million People Held As Non-Citizens
  584. After Tribals, Apple Farmers, J&K Govt Begins Evicting Hotels In Quest For Land
  585. Mehmood Pracha & The Police Assault On The Zone of Privacy
  586. Interfaith Marriage & The Constituent Assembly
  587. POCSO Law & Justice For A Kindergartener: A Mother’s Tale
  588. The Dark Chronology Of India’s Cow-Slaughter Laws
  589. Why UP Govt Filed 25 Criminal Cases Against This Dalit Farmer
  590. Kashmir’s Pellet-Gun Victims Struggle To Be Suitable Grooms
  591. J&K Shuts Women’s Commission, Violence Against Women Rises
  592. India’s Wildlife Protection In Hands Of Those With Interests In Its Destruction
  593. Umar, Anirban & Their Conversations Of Hope
  594. Preaching Amity In UP Was Faisal Khan's Ticket To Jail
  595. Harsh Mander’s Near-Death Covid Experience In Delhi’s Hospitals
  596. Criminalised By Govt, Cleared By Courts: The Tablighi Story
  597. How Public Scrutiny Of Govt Has Ended in J&K, Ladakh
  598. ‘Women Should Get Out Of Their Houses Whether They Are Hindu, Muslim, Christian or Sikh’
  599. The UP Govt Has Effectively Banned Interfaith Marriage
  600. Why Farooq Ahmad Dar Hides A Dark Secret From His Wife
  601. Why Assam Prohibits Murals Of Akhil Gogoi & Keeps Him In Jail
  602. ‘Every Media House Is Directly Or Indirectly Under The Govt’
  603. Why J&K Govt Chopped 10,000 Apple Trees Of Muslim Farmers
  604. The Lost Lives Of India's Muslim Terror Suspects
  605. How India Is Favouring Public Order Over Freedom
  606. Why 2 Law Students Appointed Themselves Guardians Of The Supreme Court
  607. “No One Knows About Me.” India’s ‘Left-Behind’ Women
  608. Uttar Pradesh’s ‘Love Jihad’ Law Is Sexist, Unconstitutional
  609. As Covid Parole Ends, Convicts Recall Delhi Prison Horror
  610. Criticism Of Govt Is Not Sedition: A Journalist’s Story
  611. Is The Global Reputation Of India’s Supreme Court In Decline?
  612. Kerala’s Attack On Online Speech A Deja Vu Moment For India
  613. Rape Trials Trapping Interfaith Couples Reveal Dangers Of UP’s ‘Love-Jihad’ Law
  614. Bangladesh Fundamentalism Fuels Hindutva Agenda In Poll-Bound Bengal
  615. Why Thousands Of Goans Are Braving A Pandemic To Stop Coal Trains
  616. Manipur’s Decade Of Grief, As Seen By A Top Police Officer
  617. In Pro-BJP Facebook World, Arnab Goswami Is A National Hero, Hindu Saviour
  618. The Central Law That Isn’t Being Allowed To J&K’s Muslim Tribals
  619. India’s Digital Divide Is Proving Fatal For Some Students
  620. Arnab Goswami & India's Era Of Unequal Liberties
  621. Committed Without Consent: The War Against India’s Mentally Ill
  622. In Bihar, The Systematic Gagging Of India's Sunshine Law
  623. The Case Against Marriage
  624. How UP Makes Cow Slaughter An Issue Of National Security
  625. 'Freedom Of Press Is In Everybody's Interest'
  626. Why An Aged Defender Of The Deprived Faces Terror Charges
  627. An Attack In Hathras, And A Viral Story Of Our Times
  628. Why The Death Penalty Is Not A Solution To India's Rape Problem
  629. Why A Nobel Nominee Is A Target In Kashmir Crackdown
  630. Marital Rape: A Conversation India Refuses to Have
  631. The Lawyer Who Gave Hope To Those Without Hope
  632. Disease, Death And A Crackdown On Dissent In A Bihar Village
  633. The Young Woman Who Would Not Cry
  634. The Shadowy Online Hindutva World That Killed The Tanishq Ad
  635. Why It’s Time To Consider Same Sex Marriage
  636. Silent Eviction Of Newspaper, News Agency New Normal In J&K
  637. How The Special Marriage Act Is Killing Love
  638. ‘Women At Shaheen Bagh Gave Me Hope’
  639. 3 States Wage War Against India’s Female Corona Warriors
  640. The CAA Has Not Stopped Hindus Being Declared Foreigners In Assam
  641. As Covid-19 Goes Rural, Panic, Fatigue And Death In India's Richest State
  642. With UAPA After Bengaluru Riot, Innocence Or Guilt Of 163 Men Is Immaterial
  643. Online Groups Stoked Anger Over Sushant Singh Rajput's Death
  644. The Hateful Facebook Adventures Of Ragini Tiwari & Friends
  645. Police Detain Kashmir Editor, Colleague At Gunpoint
  646. ‘After 23 Years In Prison, I Am In Another Jail’
  647. Delhi 2012, Hathras 2020: A World Apart
  648. Govt Illegally Takes Over Land In Wildlife Sanctuaries, Parks
  649. The Creation Of A Vigilante State In Uttar Pradesh
  650. PM CARES: A Charitable Trust Run, Staffed, Defended By Govt
  651. The PM CARES Fund: Excused From India’s Laws
  652. Why BJP & Congress Leaders Opposed Leh Journalist’s Arrest
  653. The Judicial Abrogation of Rights & Liberties In Kashmir
  654. Violating Own Laws, Govt Set To Allow 12 New Western Ghat Projects
  655. The Dangerous Profession Of Journalism In Kashmir
  656. ‘I Was Slapped, Bullied By Police For A Story On Cyberbullying’
  657. Contracts. PAN Cards. Lawyers: Why Farmers Have Reason to Fear Modi’s New Farm Deal
  658. Police Question Kashmir Twitter Users For 'Anti-Govt' Posts
  659. The Book That The Delhi Police Want You To Read
  660. How Kerala’s Left Govt Jailed 2 Young Men For Leftist Thought
  661. How A UP Mosque Disappeared Overnight
  662. Parliament’s Question Hour Was Subverted Before Suspension
  663. 9 Kashmir Cricketers Were Imprisoned For This Picture
  664. Hunger Threatens India. Malls Open, But Anganwadis Stay Shut
  665. Govt Rushes Law To Use Mining Ravages Fund For Roads
  666. Why Changes To India’s 50-Year-Old Abortion Law Fail Its Women
  667. Justice Arun Mishra & The Supreme Court’s Rule Of Whim
  668. Prashant Bhushan: “People Must Realize What Is At Stake”
  669. ‘No Purpose Served’ By More Jail For ‘Bright Student’ Sharjeel Usmani: Judge
  670. ‘Kafeel Khan Decision Will Become History’ Says Family

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