India’s new data protection rules—issued eight years after the Supreme Court declared privacy a fundamental right—create a system that puts State authority first and privacy later. They allow ...
Women and children gather inside Katnera’s anganwadi or government-run creche in Madhya Pradesh. In 2023, the building was nearly destroyed in a flood, but authorities claimed the village was no ...
In Assam, 63,959 people—mostly poor, rural, and often unaware—have been declared “foreigners” without ever getting a chance to defend themselves/ SHARDUL GOPULKAR In Assam, 63,959 people—mostly poor, ...
A mural beneath an overpass in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, depicts a woman salt worker, highlighting the role of women in the region’s salt economy/ MANIDEEP GUDELA Decades after equal pay laws, Dalit ...
Millet farmer Ramesh Oyam’s mother Sukli Oyam, in her house in Bodga village in Bijapur district in south Chhattisgarh, with his one-year-old daughter. They are yet to claim the Rs 500,000 ...
The remains of the Teesta Stage III concrete dam, swept away on 3 October 2023. Photo of rescue mission shared by government of Sikkim on Facebook Over 23 years, in 14 government reports, research ...
Has anything changed from the British Raj to now? The answer, certainly in the proposed Clause 150 meant to replace Section 124A, or sedition, is an unambiguous no. It proposes that the government and ...
Mohammad Talha, a shopkeeper in Nuh, accuses the Haryana police of refusing to register a case against Bajrang Dal members who allegedly damaged his house in the communal violence/MOHAMMAD TALHA'S ...
Govind Krishnan V's book, Vivekananda: The Philosopher of Freedom, challenges the Hindu right's attempt to co-opt Swami Vivekananda, undeniably one of the most influential and defining figures of ...
About 800,000 pilgrims participated in a February 2023 kumbh mela, ‘revived’ by Hindu right-wing organisations and political parties and which Prime Minister Modi hailed as ‘protecting India’s ...
Drawing from Stick News on The Daily English Show./ WIKIMEDIA, CREATIVE COMMONS Changing laws is Parliament's jurisdiction, not the court’s, which cannot become a ‘super legislature’, the union ...
For 151 years, Indians expressing their right to free speech and expression have faced the prospect of being accused of sedition: ‘showing disaffection’ towards the State under section 124A of the ...