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FROM THE PADDY FIELDS and serpentine backwaters of Southwest India’s Malabar Coast, Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar in 1778 began an arduous journey. As a senior priest in the Syriac Catholic community in Malabar, he hoped that a meeting with Pope Pius VI would shore up the increasingly fragile unity (...)
Top excise official says liquor consumption is a social evil and people can be reformed, minister says amendment to prohibition law to be introduced in current legislative session.
Patna: In ‘dry’ state Bihar, where jails have been filling up with consumers of illegal liquor, and the prohibition (...)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s biggest neighbour and the second largest constituent of the erstwhile USSR is a major international crisis. There are reports of growing civilian casualties of Russian bombing and large numbers of Ukrainians fleeing to neighbouring countries for safety. At (...)
Human rights activists, filmmakers, journalists, academicians, advocates, researchers, social workers based in different parts of the country condemn the brutal police repression on Human Right and student activists in West Bengal on 7 February for organizing public protest for right to free (...)
Sandeep Dhillon and Suresh, two of the 13 Maruti workers who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 and incarcerated in Bhondsi Jail, Gurgaon, over the alleged charge of attempt to murder of a Maruti official in 2012 during a workers’ protest in the Manesar plant of Maruti, has been (...)
Oxfam released a new report on India’s burgeoning economic inequality caused by the financial aggrandizement of a handful of big crony-comprador capitalists at a time when masses have been facing an unprecedented financial crisis. Oxfam’s inequality report stirred a hornet’s nest as it was (...)
Diaspora groups from across the world also created a Twitter storm on January 8 with the hashtag #StopIndianMuslimGenocide to highlight the issue.
New Delhi: Indian diaspora from across the globe has expressed outrage over the failure of the Narendra Modi-led government to arrest those who (...)
A series of unchecked attacks on Right to Information (RTI) activists undermines the “liberty of thought and expression” and therefore constitutes an assault on the very Preamble of the Indian Constitution which guarantees this fundamental right to every Indian. Attacks on RTI activists are (...)
The upcoming elections in three Indian states will be a contest between the BJP’s polarizing, violent, Islamaphobic messages and efforts to create a more plural, more democratic India
A bizarre event took place in northern India between December 17 and December 19, 2021. It was a “religious (...)
The CJI rightly observes that investigative journalism is vanishing in India. But doesn’t the judiciary need to confront the reality that press freedom is at its lowest ebb in independent India’s history?
Dear Chief Justice of India,
Thank you for your most pertinent observation that “the (...)
New Delhi: Seventy-two years ago, the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India. Two months later, on January 26, 1950, the country’s Constitution came into effect. But how has the implementation of our constitutional rights and safeguards been going?
In high courts across the (...)
The onset of the pandemic has made the situation even more challenging.
India’s hunger situation is a serious cause for concern that needs the attention of policymakers at the highest level.
According to a 2015 World Bank report, malnutrition in India is two to seven times higher than other (...)
COVID-19 has worsened nutrition outcomes by disrupting crucial social support.
Amartya Sen once told Mahbub-ul-Haq, with whom he developed the Human Development Index (HDI), that he can “do a single, one-number indicator, but it will be vulgar”.
Mahbub ul-Haq replied: “Do an indicator that is (...)
Indian unions, including IndustriALL affiliates INMF and SMEFI, have successfully finalized a long-awaited wage agreement with Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), benefitting more than 100,000 employees.
The wage agreement, concluded by the (...)
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) is one of the oldest human rights organisations in India. Formed in 1972, amid the “orgy of slaughter and brutal repression” unleashed by the Indian State on political activists, in the background of the Naxalbari uprising, APDR turns 50 this (...)
The omission is tantamount to neglecting threats to Indian democracy.
A secret blacklist of individuals and groups used to regulate speech across Facebook’s platforms, instituted by the company in 2012 in the face of growing public concerns over terrorists being recruited through the site – was (...)
A united movement of labour organizations and pro-people forces in needed in Karnataka for a complete workplace and citizenship rights of migrant workers.
What unites the city’s domestic workers, security guards, drivers, garment makers, construction workers and app-based service workers? One (...)
The respected academic, who has died aged 80, was a leading anti-caste campaigner and fought tirelessly for women’s rights
At the village of Kasegaon, in India’s rural western region of Maharashtra, huge crowds turned up for the funeral in August of a US-born, white sociologist whom many local (...)
The Covid-19 pandemic and its consequent lockdowns have caused schools in India to be closed for the last year and a half – notes Locked Out: Emergency Report on School Education. Published on September 6, 2021, the report discusses the disastrous effects of prolonged school closures on the (...)
Pramod Kumar’s book argues that the idea of new India as a transformation from secular nationalism to cultural nationalism, from mixed economy to market economy needs some serious rethinking.
How does contemporary social, political, and economic development in India provide legitimacy and (...)
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