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‘I’m Used To It But ‘Endangering Sovereignty’ Is Too Much’: Fact Checker Mohd Zubair Faces Gravest Criminal Case Yet

02 Dec 2024

In Jammu Village Flying The Indian Flag, Army Allegedly Tortures 4 Muslim Labourers, As Terror Attacks Rise

29 Nov 2024

Arrests, FIRs, Raids: The Perils Of Fighting For Labour Rights In India’s Industrial Hubs

27 Nov 2024

In Mumbai, Hundreds Lose Homes Built Over Decades, As Big Business Allied With Govt Takes Over Land

25 Nov 2024

How The Costs Of The Adani Bribery Scandal Will Be Borne By India’s Electricity Consumers & May Increase Power Cuts

23 Nov 2024

‘I Languished In Jail Without Any Crime:’ 29-Year-Old Journalism Graduate, Last Of The Hathras 4 To Get Bail

20 Nov 2024

In Maharashtra’s Marathwada, A Farm-And-Jobs Crisis Narrows Focus Of Voters & Parties To A Single Issue: Caste

18 Nov 2024

As Centre-State Row Suspends Rural-Jobs Scheme In West Bengal For 3 Years, Thousands Migrate In Search Of Work

15 Nov 2024

‘Criminalised For Simply Doing My Job.’ Disturbed But Determined, Kashmiri Reporter After 910 Days In Jail

13 Nov 2024

Jailed For Decades, Convicts Forgotten By The State & Their Families Fight Lonely Battle To Get Out

11 Nov 2024

Labourers Vs IIT-Bombay: Contract Workers Win A High Court Case For Gratuity Payment, Could Set National Precedent

08 Nov 2024

Why Over 1500 Women & Men Deemed Fit for Discharge Are Stuck in Mental Health Institutions Nationwide

06 Nov 2024

‘Some Stories Are Desperate Calls For Intervention:’ Reporter Whose Stories Led To SC Order To End Casteism In Prisons

04 Nov 2024

A Professor & A Singer, Both Accused In Bhima-Koregaon Case, Discuss Hopelessness & Hope In An Indian Prison

31 Oct 2024

6 Years After Modi’s Promise To Transform 112 Backward Areas, Little Change In Crumbling Schools In A Haryana District

30 Oct 2024

India’s Right-To-Information Law Came To J&K In 2019. But Despite A Supreme Court Order, Information Is Hard To Obtain

28 Oct 2024

Should The Dead Be Allowed To Reproduce? Why This Is A Question That Parliament Must Consider

25 Oct 2024

Millions Of Indians In The Gulf Working In Difficult, Degrading Conditions Demand Govt Intervention, Safety Net

23 Oct 2024

The ‘Lightning-Speed’, Overnight Appointments That Now Dog The Integrity Of India’s Elections

21 Oct 2024

Hindu Homes Intact, Muslim Houses Razed By Assam Govt, Ignoring Supreme Court Hold On Demolitions

18 Oct 2024

The Faltering Promise Of Modi’s ‘Temples Of Health’: Healthcare Centres That Fail The Poor, Censured By Govt’s Own Auditor

16 Oct 2024

Myanmar Hindus Seek Indian Support, Overseas Citizen Status, As Ethnic & Religious Discrimination By Junta Soars

14 Oct 2024

35% of Victims Sexually Assaulted Within Families Are Aged 12-15, Report Severe Trauma, Need Special Support

11 Oct 2024

Freefall In India’s Academic Freedom Ranking Is Reflected In Cancelled Lectures At IIT Bombay & Elsewhere

10 Oct 2024

Delhi Govt Shelter Home Where 14 Intellectually Challenged Inmates Died Was A Disaster Waiting To Happen

07 Oct 2024

‘Media Need To Find Ways To Centre Public Interest Again’: Author Of New Book On India’s Invisible Workforce

04 Oct 2024

Govts In Delhi Fail To Deliver Homes Promised To Hundreds In Slums, 14 Years After Collecting Up To Rs 1.4 lakh Each

02 Oct 2024

Pan-India Stories of Informal Workers During Covid-19 Pandemic: Crisis Narratives, edited by Deepanshu Mohan, Sakshi Chindaliya, Arun Kumar Kaushik

01 Oct 2024

Nicobarese Anthropologist & Former Officer Questions Modi Govt Claims Over Controversial Great Nicobar Project

30 Sep 2024

How A Delhi Riots Case With Specious Evidence Has Cast A Shadow Over The Lives Of 3 Muslim Women

27 Sep 2024

‘This Movement Can’t Be Erased From People’s Minds’, Parents Of Raped & Murdered Kolkata Doctor Blame Mamata Banerjee Government For The Aftermath

25 Sep 2024

In Haryana: Cow Vigilantes Raided Muslim Homes, Lynched A Man & Tortured A Minor, As Anti-Muslim Violence Continues

23 Sep 2024

In A Gujarat Village, A Clash Between Clean Energy Solutions & Those Who Bear The Cost Of The Transition

20 Sep 2024

Why Informal Workers Aren’t Using Or Don’t Know Of Modi Govt Plan To Deliver Welfare Benefits To 380 Million

18 Sep 2024

The Death Of A Bridegroom In Custody Confirms India’s ‘Criminal Tribes’ Are Policed Much As The British Did

17 Sep 2024

How India Criminalised Pro-Palestinian Protests & Posts, Including Using The Anti-Terrorism Law Against Protestors

16 Sep 2024

Why The Trial Of Umar Khalid & The Other Activists Is Nowhere In Sight—4 Years After The Delhi Riots

13 Sep 2024

3 Girls Forced into Illegal Marriages Every Minute in India, Says New Report. Most Cannot Get These Marriages Annulled

11 Sep 2024

Hindutva and Violence Against Women by Brinda Karat

09 Sep 2024

Muslim Man Battered On Train For Carrying Meat Was Unafraid To Do So, Since Family Had Never Faced Islamophobia

09 Sep 2024

9 Years After A Muslim Man Tortured In Police & Judicial Custody In MP, Magistrate Books Seven Policemen and a Doctor For Murder

06 Sep 2024

The Supreme Court Is Making Bail Easier In Terrorism, Money Laundering Cases—Except When It Ignores Itself

05 Sep 2024

As Bengali Muslims Flee Homes In Eastern Assam, The Chief Minister Ramps Up Familiar Islamophobic Rhetoric

03 Sep 2024

India's New Criminal Law Offers Little Protection Against Sexual Assault To Men & Trans Men

02 Sep 2024

How The Case Against Kashmiri Activist Khurram Parvez Criminalises Human Rights Reports & Fact-Finding

28 Aug 2024

How Social Media Platforms Work Hand-in-Hand With The Modi Govt To Censor News & Videos Online

26 Aug 2024

Parks, Plantations & Orchards Passed Off As Forests & Other Untruths From India’s Forest Data

21 Aug 2024

More Women Than Ever in India Inc, But They Hold Less Than a Fifth of Leadership Positions: New Study

19 Aug 2024

‘Conversion Was My Great Grandfather’s Act Of Defiance, Nothing Short Of A Rebirth’

16 Aug 2024

As Assam’s Only Wetland Protected Under Global Treaty Deteriorates, Local Fishing Community Faces Loss Of Livelihood

14 Aug 2024

86 Died In A ‘Man-Made Disaster’, But 3 Years Later No Repercussions For India’s Largest Public-Sector Oil Company

12 Aug 2024

Five Years After 370 Abrogation, Jammu's Rising Militancy Leaves Behind a Trail of Fear, Panic, And Shattered Lives

09 Aug 2024

The Right To Die With Dignity Is Legal, But Most Indians Don’t Know It. A Society In Kerala Lights The Way

07 Aug 2024

3 Deaths In 9 Months In A MP Dalit Family Reflects How The State Leads India In Crimes Against Dalits, Women

03 Aug 2024

Farm Weather Advisory Offices Nationwide Shut, As Niti Aayog Misrepresents Their Role, Seeks Privatisation

01 Aug 2024

Bhima Koregaon Challenging Caste: Brahminism’s Wrath Against Dreamers Of Equality by Ajaz Ashraf

30 Jul 2024

A Window To India's Future: Intensifying Heat Waves Are Reshaping Lives, Farms & Industries in Haryana

29 Jul 2024

‘A Form Of Untouchability’: In Muzaffarnagar, Order To Display Names Was Coercively Implemented Against Muslims

25 Jul 2024

A Landmark Judgement From J&K, In The Law’s Perennial Conflict Between Liberty & Security

24 Jul 2024

Covid's Unequal Impact In India: Muslims, Adivasis, Dalits, Women Faced Greatest Decline In Life Expectancy

20 Jul 2024

A New Wave of Displacement In Manipur, As Hundreds Of Tribal Minorities Seek Refuge In Assam

19 Jul 2024

Delhi Riots: Case Against 13 Muslim Women Reveals Singular Focus To Pin Violence On Anti-CAA Protesters

17 Jul 2024

113 West Bengal Families Win A Legal Battle Against TMC Govt To Retain Land They Have Farmed For 3 Generations

15 Jul 2024

Death of 5 Orphans In MP Reveals How The Govt Punishes But Does Not Help Child Care Institutions

10 Jul 2024

Rambling with Rukka: A Moving Memoir by Rukmini Srinivas and Lakshmi Srinivas

09 Jul 2024

Despite Weaponization Of ED Against Opposition, Supreme Court Sees No Urgency In Deciding PMLA Constitutional Issues

08 Jul 2024

J&K High Court Has Quashed 4 Detention Orders Against This Kashmiri Lawyer, But The Police Have Arrested Him Again

05 Jul 2024

Hindu Men Who Provoked Mob Against Muslim Shopkeepers In Himachal Are Still Out, Spreading Islamophobia

02 Jul 2024

India’s Deadly Climate-Change & Environment Crisis & What Modi 3.0 Must Do (But Hasn’t Ever)

01 Jul 2024

Kyasanur Forest Disease Spreads Through The Western Ghats, As Deforestation Hurts Forests & Adivasi Communities

28 Jun 2024

India's Air Pollution Crisis: Over 870 Million Slowly Being Poisoned, Promises To Clean Air Fail. What Modi 3.0 Can Do

26 Jun 2024

‘Survival Is Hard’: India’s Millions Of Unemployed Youth & The National Crisis Facing Modi 3.0

24 Jun 2024

A Crisis In Indian Banking: How High Targets, Work Pressure Are Driving Employees To Despair, Suicide

21 Jun 2024

Under Pressure To Present Success Stories On Digital India & Financial Inclusion, Many Banks Engaged In Fraud, Malpractice

19 Jun 2024

‘They Can Measure Our Land, But They Can't Measure The Pain’

17 Jun 2024

How 2 Kashmiri Brothers Ran A 10-Day, Social-Media Campaign That Propelled Their Imprisoned Father To Parliament

14 Jun 2024

Anger At Governance Failures In 3 ‘Model’ Villages In Modi’s Constituency Point To His Diminished Popularity

13 Jun 2024

Intertidal: A Coast And Marsh Diary by Yuvan Aves

12 Jun 2024

It's Not Possible To Fool People Forever: NewsClick Founder Prabir Purkayastha After 225 Days In Jail

07 Jun 2024

Why The BJP Scored A Zero In Punjab: Farmers’ Fury Flattens Party After Boycott Of Candidates

05 Jun 2024

'Extensive Consultations' Before 3 New Criminal Laws, Says Modi Govt, But Won’t Give Any Details

03 Jun 2024

Targeted For Being A Foreigner, No Help From Embassy: Frenchman Jailed After Attending Dalit Protest In UP

30 May 2024

Delhi Riots: How A Delhi Police Investigating Officer Framed 9 Muslim Men For An Attack By A Hindu Mob

29 May 2024

Costlier, Shoddier, Fewer Passengers & Losing Money: Beyond Vande Bharat & Bullet Trains, The Reality Of The Railways

27 May 2024

BJP's Strategic Moves In Kashmir: Altered Political Map Strengthens Hindu Vote, New Tribal Quota Forges Fresh Loyalties

24 May 2024

UnEqual: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours by Swati Narayan

21 May 2024

An IIT-Bombay Gardener’s Suicide Reveals The Spread Of Labour Practices Designed To Deny Indian Workers Their Rights

21 May 2024

A Muslim Voter’s First-Person Account Of How She Fought To Cast Her Vote In The 2024 Election

20 May 2024

2.8 Lakh Homeless After Demolitions In Delhi in 2023, But Rehab Fails, As BJP & AAP Ignore Their Own Promises & Court Orders

15 May 2024

After 18 Months Of Humiliation, Trauma In Jail, J&K’s Waheed Parra Is Still A Unionist & A Candidate For Parliament

13 May 2024

How A False Child Rights Body Report, Rejected By Experts, Govt, Led To Harsh Mander's Legal Persecution

10 May 2024

The Prosecution & Persecution Of Harsh Mander: A Case Study of India's Accelerating Democratic Decline

08 May 2024

In Lucknow, A Poor Neighbourhood Is Being Razed For A Riverfront Plaza, Despite A Stay Order From The High Court

02 May 2024

Manipur Police, Extremists Not Questioned Despite Viral Video Probe That Reveals Complicity in Gangrape

29 Apr 2024

The Taming Of India’s Regional Media: Why Hindi Dailies, TV Channels Present Handouts From Ministries As News

23 Apr 2024

The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon And The Search For Democracy In India by Alpa Shah

19 Apr 2024

What The BJP Promised But Failed To Deliver To India’s Farmers

19 Apr 2024

Long Walk to Freedom Cut Short: A Chronicle Of Kashmir Journalist Aasif Sultan’s Captivity For Over Five Years

15 Apr 2024

More Courtrooms, Judges & Tech Won’t Reduce India's Pending Cases When The Biggest Litigator Is The Govt

12 Apr 2024

‘Many Have Happily Accepted Media Bigotry As The Truth.’ New Book Explores The Place Of Muslims In Hindu India

08 Apr 2024

Shootings Of Cattle-Smugglers, Drug Peddlers, Suspected Insurgents: Inside The 20-Fold Surge In Assam’s Encounter Killings

05 Apr 2024

‘It Is Only Because Of God's Mercy That I Could Come Out [Of Jail]. This Is Injustice & An Atrocity’

03 Apr 2024

Death By Detail: How The Govt Has Used Penalties In Law Controlling Foreign Donations To Cripple India’s NGOs

31 Mar 2024

‘Time To Hold Big-Tech Accountable For Using Cheap Labour In Artificial Intelligence Data-Labelling Work’

30 Mar 2024

Desperate For Work, Impoverished Adivasis From Prosperous Kerala Toil & Die In India’s Coffee Heartland

30 Mar 2024

‘The Size Of [India’s] Pie Has Increased, But Only A Small Segment Has Benefited From Growth’

29 Mar 2024

As BJP Breaks Promises Of Autonomy, Buddhists & Muslims Join Forces, Protests Rage In Ladakh

28 Mar 2024

How A Muslim Man Fought A Police Cover-Up To Get Justice After 6 Years In A 2018 Lynching

27 Mar 2024

Banks Want Forged Paper Trails After Taking Money Illegally From Customers For Modi Govt's Flagship Schemes

26 Mar 2024

A National Campaign To Find & Assist Children Illegally Held In Prisons Reveals A Breakdown Of Justice

22 Mar 2024

6 Years After 17 Muslim Men Were Accused Of Celebrating Pakistani Cricket Victory, MP Courts Find Police Case To Be False

20 Mar 2024

Over 2 Years Since Security Forces Killed Jharkhand Adivasi On A Chicken Hunt, Widow Awaits Fresh Probe, Justice

18 Mar 2024

‘We Have To Fight For What's Right:' Why Hindu & Muslim Students Stood By Their Muslim Teachers In Rajasthan

15 Mar 2024

Acquittal Of Prof G N Saibaba & 5 Others Is A Lesson In The Importance of Criminal Procedure In Securing Personal Liberty

13 Mar 2024

Rukhmabai: The Life And Times Of A Child Bride Turned Rebel-Doctor by Sudhir Chandra

12 Mar 2024

In Varanasi, A Community Exists In The Shadow Of A Dead, Colonial Law, Unable To Live Even In Slums

11 Mar 2024

In Search Of A Better Future, Women From Bangladesh End Up Criminalised & In Indian Jails

08 Mar 2024

‘We’ve Reached A Stage Where The News Media Have Become A Voice Against The People’

06 Mar 2024

Foraging To Fill Gaps In Food Security Net: Jharkhand’s Poorest Adivasis Face Ration Delays, Shortages

04 Mar 2024

‘Everywhere I Went People Said, Nobody Has Come To Speak To Us’

01 Mar 2024

‘After Muslims, It’s The Turn Of Christians:’ With Little Evidence, UP Govt Prosecutes 4 Christian Institutions, Arrests Employees

28 Feb 2024

Conflagration In Haldwani Was Preceded By A Spate Of Demolitions & The Steady Demonisation Of Muslims

26 Feb 2024

‘The Tipping Point Was When A Union Minister Lied in Parliament:’ Retd War Veteran Who Revealed Electoral-Bond Subterfuge

23 Feb 2024

Parents & Students Want Eggs In Schools, But As Influence Of Right-Wing Politics Grows, Child Nutrition Suffers

21 Feb 2024

In Lush, Ancient Chhattisgarh Forest, Thousands Of Trees Cut To Mine Coal For Rajasthan, Threatening Adivasi Homes, Water, Livelihoods

19 Feb 2024

‘Trinamool Can Exist Only By Mixing Politics & Unregulated Profit From Businesses Of Local Leaders’

17 Feb 2024

How Procedure Upended Personal Liberty In Allahabad High Court’s Refusal To Protect Interfaith Couples

14 Feb 2024

How The Modi Govt Is Trying To Silence Critics In The Diaspora By Banning Them From India

12 Feb 2024

Takedown Of Hate Tracker Highlights Secrecy Around Modi Govt’s Internet Censorship Practices

09 Feb 2024

How Modi Govt Gave Early Permissions For Rs 19,000-Cr Adani Energy Projects In India’s Oldest Forests

07 Feb 2024

Baby, 2 Teens & 3 Men Die In January, As Bastar’s Anti-Maoist War Intensifies. Families Accuse Police, They Blame Maoists

05 Feb 2024

The Beneficiaries Of The Tinderbox Toolkit Used By Hindu Nationalists In The Mumbai Suburb of Mira-Bhayander

02 Feb 2024

Freed By The Court In Terror Case After 19 Years, A Muslim Pharmacist Says The Police Won’t Stop Harassing Him

31 Jan 2024

An Unregulated Mining Boom in Kashmir Is Degrading Rivers, Worsening Floods & Destroying Livelihoods

29 Jan 2024

3-Year-Old Supreme Court Order Restricting Internet Outages Is Ignored In India, World’s Leading Offender

27 Jan 2024

‘It’s A Sham:’ Despite Army Assurances, Why Families Of 3 Killed In Latest Military Custodial Death Have No Hope Of Justice

24 Jan 2024

The Learning Trap: How Byju’s Took Indian Edtech For A Ride, by Pradip K Saha

23 Jan 2024

Ram Mandir Inauguration: ‘I Have No Tears Left’

22 Jan 2024

‘There Is Nothing More Unconstitutional, Nothing More Cruel:’ Muslims Before Ram Temple Consecration

19 Jan 2024

6 Years On, New Case Against Kafeel Khan Shows UP Govt Still Harrying The Paediatrician

17 Jan 2024

Muslim Teen Gets Bail After 151 Days In MP Case Of Spitting On Hindu Procession. Complainant, Witness Deny Police Claims

15 Jan 2024

After Years Without Pay, Madrassa Teachers In Uttar Pradesh Do Menial Jobs, Cope With Debt, Distress & Ill Health

12 Jan 2024

Citizen Movements Try To Stem The Decimation of Urban India’s Trees, In Era Of Record Heat & Toxic Dust

10 Jan 2024

Charismatic Kerala Politician Returns To Public Life After 22 Of Last 25 years In Jail or Exile, But It May Be Too Late

08 Jan 2024

5 Years After Ranjan Gogoi, No Clear Rules About Sexual Harassment Related To Chief Justice Of India

05 Jan 2024

Instead Of Making Life Easier For Pensioners, Widows, Transgenders, A J&K Govt Online Process Has Led To Misery

03 Jan 2024

Harassment & Unsafe Workspaces: How Women Cab Drivers Survive The Risky Roads Of India’s Capital

02 Jan 2024

Under A Shadow Of Fear, Christians Celebrate Christmas, But Not Like Before

24 Dec 2023

Promises To Farmers Dry Up, As Maharashtra Enters Another Season Of Drought, Debt & Rural Distress

22 Dec 2023

3 New Legislations Give Govt Sweeping New Powers To Control Journalism, Entertainment & Internet

21 Dec 2023

City on Fire: A Boyhood In Aligarh

21 Dec 2023

Delayed Justice & Alleged Violations of Constitutional Rights In Quest Of 9 Delhi Riots Accused For Bail

20 Dec 2023

In A Guwahati Wetland, As The Poor Are Removed, Big Buildings & Institutions, Also ‘Encroachers’, Untouched

18 Dec 2023

‘The Simple Act Of Having Chai Together Broke An Invisible Barrier’. A New Book On The Untouchable Cremators Of The Dead

15 Dec 2023

No Justice Yet For Moinul Haque, Stomped On After Being Shot 2 Yrs Ago & Thousands Of Others Evicted In Assam

14 Dec 2023

2023: The Year Imprisoned Political Activist Umar Khalid Was Not Heard By The Supreme Court

13 Dec 2023

‘The Supreme Court Has Let Down The People Of J&K By Giving Its Seal To The Loss Of Special Privileges’

11 Dec 2023

Kashmir’s Leather Industry Faces Disaster, Thousands Of Rawhides Pile Up While Artisans, Traders Go Out Of Business

08 Dec 2023

Contrary To SC’s Rules Of Assignment, At Least 8 Politically Sensitive Cases Moved To One Judge In 4 Months

07 Dec 2023

How Delhi’s ‘One-Stop Centres’ In Courts, Meant To Assist Women With Medical, Legal Help, Are Failing Or Flailing

06 Dec 2023

Women In J&K Are Having The Same Number Of Babies As Japan’s. That’s Where The Comparison Ends

04 Dec 2023

‘Broken, Torn, A Continuous Trauma’: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah After 21 Months In Jail

01 Dec 2023

How New Land Acquisition Procedure by Odisha Government Will Dilute Rights Of Nearly Half A Million Tribals

30 Nov 2023

Why Bail Order Freeing Kashmiri Editor Goes Far But Not Far Enough

29 Nov 2023

J&K High Court Orders Demolished State's Allegations Against Journalists, But Here’s Why Little May Change

28 Nov 2023

‘If Your Work Is Critical You Are A Threat:’ Journalist Fighting UAPA Case Wins Global Press Award

27 Nov 2023

Army Officers Contradict One Another, Tribunal Suspends Life Term To Captain For Killing 3 J&K Civilians

25 Nov 2023

How The State Is Using Section 144 & Private Citizens For ‘Warrantless Surveillance’

24 Nov 2023

H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars, by Kunal Purohit

23 Nov 2023

Why Court-Issued Protection Orders To Domestic Violence Survivors Offer No Protection Against Violence

23 Nov 2023

Homes Flooded Twice Monthly & Lives Disrupted In Kerala, As Rising Seas Provide A Foretaste Of What’s Coming

22 Nov 2023

Generating Affordable Energy: Clean Solutions That Solve Energy Inequity & Empower Rural Entrepreneurs

20 Nov 2023

A Reprieve For The Chevella Banyans & A David-vs-Goliath Blueprint For Citizens Trying To Save Roadside Trees

17 Nov 2023

‘Data Breach Is A Fact Of Life In An Increasingly Digital World. You Can't Eliminate It, You Can Only Mitigate It’

16 Nov 2023

From Phansi Yard: My Year With The Women Of Yerawada, by Sudha Bharadwaj

13 Nov 2023

Dalit & Adivasi Murders On The Same Day Show How Madhya Pradesh Is Failing Marginalised Communities

10 Nov 2023

In Poll-Bound Madhya Pradesh, A Studied Denial Of Legal Rights To Adivasis Over Traditional Forests & Homes

15 Nov 2023

17 Years After India’s Landmark Information Law Was Passed, India’s Courts Are Undermining That Right

08 Nov 2023

In Kashmir, Bellwether Of India’s Changing Climate, Heatwaves, Receding Glaciers, Drying Rivers, Power Cuts & Falling Harvests

06 Nov 2023

‘Urdu Is Written Back To Front’: The ‘Microaggressions’ Indian Muslims Face All The Time

03 Nov 2023

Press Under Siege: In Fight Against Separatists, Aam Aadmi Party Govt In Punjab Cracks Down On Journalists

01 Nov 2023

Families In Distress, Children Drop Out Of School, As Hundreds At Site Of Largest Delhi Demolition Struggle To Get By

30 Oct 2023

Inside The Legal Battle To Ensure Health & Freedom Of A Rohingya Woman In Illegal Detention

27 Oct 2023

How Hard Line Politics Endangered Democracy, Social Stability In The Maldives

26 Oct 2023

41 Incidents In 9 months: Urged On By BJP Leaders, Maharashtra Has Emerged As India’s Communal Tinderbox

25 Oct 2023

Why A 79-Year-Old Former Police Officer & Dalit Human Rights Defender Faces Attempted Murder Charges

23 Oct 2023

Disaster On The Teesta: Ignoring Warnings Of Melting Glacier, Sikkim Hoped Large Dams Would Earn Money

20 Oct 2023

‘This Is Unbelievable’: Editor Who Says MP Police Registered 11 Cases Against Reporter For Story On Minister

18 Oct 2023

Over 100 Muslim Homes, Between 50 & 60 Years Old, Razed For Rail Project In UP’s Mathura, Hindu Houses Intact

16 Oct 2023

Muslims Main Target Of UP Anti-Conversion Law, District Courts Refuse Bail, As Conspiracy Theory Becomes Law: Study

13 Oct 2023

How Bail Orders by District Court Judges Refute Religious Conversion Cases Filed by UP Police

12 Oct 2023

Hindutva Groups Are Misusing UP’s Anti-Conversion Law, As Police Register Cases With No Legal Standing

11 Oct 2023

A New Golden Rule: The Supreme Court's Timely Reminder On The Importance of Personal Liberty

09 Oct 2023

How A Family Of 5 Got Legal Rights Over 144 Hectares Of Forest & Why That Matters For 250 Million Indians

06 Oct 2023

‘Someone Raped Me, I Can’t Believe It’: 3 Accounts Of Marital Rape, As Supreme Court Considers Petitions To Criminalise It

04 Oct 2023

Islamophobia, Literature Hostile To Minorities At Event Launched By Union Minister At National Law School In Bhopal

02 Oct 2023

Modi’s G20 Push For Green Credit Scheme Wants Private Plantations To Replace Forests, Rejected By His Own Experts

29 Sep 2023

Why A 3.5-Year-Old Poorly Investigated Case Against Students Of Delhi’s Jamia University Is Going To Trial

27 Sep 2023

Why Some Supreme Court Investigators In The Adani-Hindenburg Case Are Accused Of Conflict Of Interest

26 Sep 2023

The BJP’s Historic Women’s Reservation Bill Is Also A Promise To About 179 Male MPs To Keep Their Seats Safe For Now

25 Sep 2023

As The Government Failed Manipur, Once Peace-Loving People Picked Up Weapons, Fought & Died

22 Sep 2023

Ahead Of State Polls, Fresh Tensions In India’s Congress-Ruled Adivasi Heartland, As Police Kill 2 Young Men In Bastar

19 Sep 2023

How Odisha Is Tackling Protests Against Mining: An Abduction, Arrests, Terror Cases Against Adivasi Protestors

15 Sep 2023

Why The Muslims Of Uttarakhand Are Afraid, Very Afraid

14 Sep 2023

Govt Reports Warn How India’s New Forest Law Will Accelerate Fragmentation Of Critical Animal Corridors

11 Sep 2023

India’s ‘Alternative To Hong Kong’ Proceeds In Lush Nicobar Island, As Govt Ignores Pleas Of Local Tribals

08 Sep 2023

Another Place, Another Demolition: Daman, Run By A Modi Aide, Latest To Deal With Trauma Of Forced Eviction

07 Sep 2023

In UP, An FIR Citing ‘Negative News’ Reinforces Fears Of Embattled Journalists

04 Sep 2023

Why The World's Most Powerful Court Is In Crisis

01 Sep 2023

A Battle For The Commons: Tribals Fight Illegal Deforestation, Government Inaction In Madhya Pradesh

01 Sep 2023

The Decline Of Nehru, Tagore & The Rise Of Savarkar: How Delhi University Got Itself A New Syllabus

30 Aug 2023

After Abuse Of Muslim Student In UP School, An Unrepentant Teacher & An Anxious, Fearful Father, Steadfast In Desire For Justice

28 Aug 2023

How Indians Are Endangering The Health of Their Domestic Workers: New Study

25 Aug 2023

Rohingya Children Grow Up Without Education, Family Life, As India Holds Parents Indefinitely In Detention Centres

25 Aug 2023

Lying With Impunity: The Challenges Of Prosecuting The Police For Perjury

24 Aug 2023

Fabricated Evidence, Tutored Witnesses, Malicious Prosecution: How Police Lied & Subverted Path To Justice

23 Aug 2023

Debt, Distress & Antidepressants: Thousands Struggle To Recover From A J&K Trade Route Closed 4 Years Ago

21 Aug 2023

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023 & Indian Penal Code, 1860: An Annotated Comparison & Summary

19 Aug 2023

Monitory Democracy Springs Up Wherever There Are Abuses Of Power

18 Aug 2023

Quacks For Mishaps, Reprisals For Runaways: Brick Kiln Workers Face Lifelong Collateral Damage To Health & Early Death

18 Aug 2023

No Housing, No Toilets, No Medical Care, No Schooling: Bonded Labourers Face Assault, Sexual Violence, Denial Of Rights

17 Aug 2023

A Crackdown Fails To Curb Modern Slavery: India’s Bonded Labourers Endure Inhuman Conditions As Traffickers Take New Risks

16 Aug 2023

On India’s 77th Independence Day, Driven By Poverty, Caste, Millions Of Migrant Workers Live As Modern Slaves

15 Aug 2023

After 46 Years In Search For Justice, An MP Resident Has A Bag Full Of Orders, No Closure

15 Aug 2023

Home Minister Amit Shah Says Sedition Is Dead. But Its Replacement Is More Fearsome Than The Colonial Law Ever Was

14 Aug 2023

How the RSS & the Sangh Appropriated Swami Vivekananda

13 Aug 2023

Soap Star, Social Rebel, Family Provider: In Kashmir, An Executed Daughter & The Absence Of Closure

11 Aug 2023

In Riot-Torn Nuh, A Muslim Man Has Found It Impossible To Get His Complaint Registered

14 Aug 2023

Imprisoning A Child is A ‘Flagrant Violation’ Of The Law, Yet Police Freely Violate The Law, 77% Of Detentions In UP

09 Aug 2023

Rage, Riots & State-Led Retribution: Reconstructing Haryana’s Week Of Violence

07 Aug 2023

‘There Is No Solution. We Will Be Killed One By One:' Kashmiri Pandits, 4 Years After Modi Govt Revoked J&K Autonomy

05 Aug 2023

Segregated & Unequal: New Research Reveals How Public Services Are Restricted, Denied To Muslims, Dalits In Ghettoised Localities

04 Aug 2023

A Prime Ministerial Scheme To Stop Poverty Due to Health Crises Is Helping Poorest Indians The Least

02 Aug 2023

Tracking Life & Death: Changes To A 54-Year-Old Law May Exclude Millions Of Poorest Indians & States

01 Aug 2023

From Manipur, A Peace Activist’s Account Of State Criminality & Culpability

31 Jul 2023

Govt Whataboutery & Inaction: Why Hate Speech Persists Despite The Supreme Court Wanting To Stop It

28 Jul 2023

Why Former Police Chiefs, Judge Say Arrest Of 3 Muslim Teens, Demolition of Their Home By MP Govt Is Illegal

26 Jul 2023

Kashmiri Women Getting Help For Heroin Addiction Fight A Long & Lonely Battle

24 Jul 2023

Anti-Pollution Norms & State Policies Cripple UP’s Leather Industry, Pushing Muslim Livelihoods To The Brink

21 Jul 2023

How Majoritarian Policies in UP & Maharashtra Sent Meat Industries Into Decline, Ended Thousands Of Jobs

19 Jul 2023

Amidst A Govt-Enforced Data Vacuum, Stagnating Wages & Rising Costs Increase Economic Distress In Rural India

17 Jul 2023

Islamophobia In The Indian Workplace: A Tale Of 3 Muslim Women

14 Jul 2023

State Selectively Releases Murders, Rapists, As Thousands Languish In Prison, Revealing India’s Convict Problem

12 Jul 2023

Why Defending The Retention Of Sedition, Endorsing Govt Censorship Powers Do Not Defy India’s Constitution

10 Jul 2023

Quibbling Over Detail, Paperwork, MP Govt Rejects Compensation for 78% Of Front-Line Workers Who Died During Covid

07 Jul 2023

New Study Reveals How The National Security Act Denies Justice & Fairness To Detenus In Uttar Pradesh

05 Jul 2023

Long, Difficult Process Of Identifying The Dead Prolongs Grief & Horror For Odisha Train-Crash Families

03 Jul 2023

8 FIRs, Bail Orders Show No Specific Allegation, Evidence Against Jailed UP Social Activist Javed Mohammad

30 Jun 2023

After 63 Days In Jail Under Anti-Terrorism Law For Poem On Defiance, Assam Poet Now Writes Odes To Love

28 Jun 2023

Detained Hundreds Of Kilometres From Home, Kashmiri Prisoners In Uttar Pradesh & Haryana Await Trial With No Access To Families

26 Jun 2023

Why Making Marital Rape A Crime Is Unlikely To Provide Married Women The Legal Backing To Say No To Forced Sex

23 Jun 2023

After The Coromandel Train Wreck: Unemployed, Young Migrant Workers Struggling With Health Costs & Lost Wages

21 Jun 2023

500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution

19 Jun 2023

In Kashmir, A Woman Was Paid Rs 25 A Month For 20 Years To Sweep A Govt School. Then, Her Wages Stopped, But She Keeps Sweeping

16 Jun 2023

In India, World’s Internet Shutdown Capital, Blockades Undermine Livelihood, Food Security, Human Rights

14 Jun 2023

A ‘Dehumanising’ Year, Says Afreen Fatima, As She Fights Cases Being Heaped On Her Father, A UP Social Activist

13 Jun 2023

Law Commission’s Sedition Report Influenced By 2018 Book That Favours Retention Of Misused, Colonial-Era Law

12 Jun 2023

1000 Days Without Trial Or Bail For Umar Khalid, Denied Bail Despite False Allegations, Fabrications & Inconsistencies

09 Jun 2023

West Bengal Govt—With Help From New Delhi—Violates Forest Laws To Plan Hydro Project On Adivasi Land

07 Jun 2023

A Dalit Minor Was Gang Raped Twice, UP Police Ignored The First Time

05 Jun 2023

Amidst Manipur Violence, A Propaganda War Between Kukis, Meiteis Emerged Through Scores Of New Twitter Handles

02 Jun 2023

Manipur On Knife’s Edge After 4 Weeks Of Riots, Murder & Ethnic Cleansing, Years Of Progress At Risk

31 May 2023

India’s Transition To EVs Threatens Millions Of Auto Sector Jobs, At A Time Of Rising Nationwide Unemployment

29 May 2023

Laws, Health Policy Fail To Stem India’s Tsunami Of Mental Health, As Stress Claims Victims, Cuts Productivity

26 May 2023

India’s National Human Rights Commission At Risk Of Losing Top-Level Ranking For Second Time Since 1999

24 May 2023

Defrauded By Middlemen, Cheated By Grooms: Abuse Of UP Govt’s Cash-For-Wedding Scheme Hurts Poor Women

22 May 2023

Meet The Doctor Who Challenged Patanjali’s Misleading Advertisements & Won

19 May 2023

CBI Case Against Environmental Lawyer Has No Evidence To Back Allegations Made But Will Deter Litigation

17 May 2023

Why A Supreme Court Order To Provide Subsidised Food To 80 Million Workers May Not Help Them

15 May 2023

Hindutva, A Tampered Research Paper & PM’s Endorsement Drive Effort To ‘Revive’ Kumbh Mela In Trinamool-Ruled West Bengal

12 May 2023

A Trail Of Blood Between 2 Coastal Karnataka Villages Explains Why Bajrang Dal Ban Became An Election Issue

10 May 2023

‘I Have A Lot Of Strength In Me:’ Muzaffarnagar Gang-Rape Survivor's 10-Year-Haul For Justice Ends, 2 Convicted

09 May 2023

Thousands Traumatised In New Delhi: As Law Is Ignored, Homes & Lives Are Torn Apart For G20 Summit

08 May 2023

The Wait To Free Bandi Singhs: Why Punjabis Want 9 Men Convicted Of Murder, Terrorism To Be Released

05 May 2023

Gujarat Riot Survivor Bilkis Bano's 20-Year Wait For Justice Is Reopened—Again—In The Supreme Court

02 May 2023

Sugar’s Bitter Truth: No Contracts, No Fair Wages, No Healthcare For Migrant Workers As Climate Risks, Accidents Rise

01 May 2023

Marriage Equality: Govt Says Only Parliament Can Change Laws. Here Are 5 Times The Supreme Court Did

28 Apr 2023

Karnataka Farmers From 17 Villages Displaced For Residential Project: Farms Razed, Compensation Under Colonial-Era Law

26 Apr 2023

As Covid Flares Again, India’s Disabled, Serviced By Quacks Or Not At All, Struggle To Access Healthcare

24 Apr 2023

‘It Hurts, It Pains:’ A Christian Dalit Activist On Combating Online Violence, Losing Faith In Dravidian Politics

21 Apr 2023

How The Lack Of A Law For Refugees In India Affects Hindu Tamil Asylum Seekers From Sri Lanka

19 Apr 2023

Free At Last: The Story Of A Child Who Spent 25 Years On Death Row & Emerged A Free Man

17 Apr 2023

How Meta, YouTube, Twitter & Instagram Ignored Their Own Hate-Speech Standards To Give Hindutva Its Latest Star

14 Apr 2023

A 'Heckler's Veto': No Legal Basis For Police Stopping A Muslim Man Praying With Friends & Family At His Godown In Uttar Pradesh

12 Apr 2023

‘We Sent 300 Tonnes Of Mercury Waste Back To The US. It Was A Milestone For Anti-Dumping Campaigns’

07 Apr 2023

In Madhya Pradesh, 3 Muslim Academics Face Criminal Cases Filed By Hindu Right, Backed By State Govt

10 Apr 2023

As J&K Govt Reactivates A Controversial Civilian Militia, Local Hindus In An Isolated Village Feel Safer

05 Apr 2023

Caste On Campus: Dalit Students Face Exclusion, Alienation In India’s Higher Education Institutions

04 Apr 2023

After 54 Days In Jail On Unclear Charges, MP Tribal Muslim Law Student Gets Bail But Plunges Into Trauma, Tears

31 Mar 2023

Gig Work Seen As Economic Revolution, But 8 Million Indian Gig Workers Are Not Considered Employees, Denied Social Security

29 Mar 2023

The Myriad Things Indian Muslims Are Changing To Survive Overt & Covert Hostility In Their Changing Country

27 Mar 2023

Crumbling J&K Mountainside & Homes Destroyed Are Latest Evidence Of India’s Himalayan Blunders

24 Mar 2023

Love, Sex & ‘Chosen’ Family: Inside India’s Battle For The Right to Marry A Partner Of The Same Sex

22 Mar 2023

How A Men’s Rights NGO Got The Delhi High Court To Hear Arguments To Keep Marital Rape Legal

20 Mar 2023

How Indian Media Mainstreamed The ‘Land Jihad’ Propaganda

17 Mar 2023

Teen Reporter Arrested For Questioning Minister Gets Bail, Faces Police Cases In Latest UP Media Assault

15 Mar 2023

At A Time Of Economic Distress, J&K Land Eviction Drive Imperils Livelihoods

13 Mar 2023

‘Even On the Day of the Vote, They Were Hatching Plans to Delay or Undermine the Legislation’

10 Mar 2023

Leading Indian Fact-Checker Receives Series Of Online Death Threats After Busting Fake News

09 Mar 2023

After High Court Verdict, Thousands Fear Homelessness, As Dehradun Government Begins Illegal Evictions

07 Mar 2023

Why Supreme Court Decision To Probe The Adani-Hindenburg Matter Is Good News For The Govt

06 Mar 2023

Inside The Hidden World Of Incarcerated Indians Accused Of Terrorism

04 Mar 2023

Young Dalit Comedians Keen To Make It On Their Own Learn To Live With Trolling & Caste Discrimination

03 Mar 2023

50 Years On, Vimla Bahuguna On The Chipko Movement, Her Late Husband & Ties That Bind

01 Mar 2023

Unpaid, Unemployed & Undermined: Why NREGA Workers From Across India Are Agitating In Delhi

27 Feb 2023

Veteran Journalist P Sainath On Independence, Freedom & The Unknown Indians Who Fought For It

24 Feb 2023

As Unusual Heat & Rising Temperatures Threaten India’s Poor, Low-Cost, Low-Tech Cooling Offers Hope For Slums

23 Feb 2023

How An Aadhaar Fraud Forces The Poor Into Paying For Welfare Schemes They Do Not Want

22 Feb 2023

A Kashmiri Woman With Disabilities, On The Frontline Of The Anganwadi Workers Protests, Is Unafraid

20 Feb 2023

Solutions To Assam’s Child-Marriage Problem In Schools, Not In Mass Arrests Ordered By CM

17 Feb 2023

In The Jamia Discharge, A Challenge To The Delhi Riots Conspiracy Case

15 Feb 2023

As Adivasis Attack Christians, Hindu Leaders Seek Denial Of Scheduled Tribe Benefits For Converts

13 Feb 2023

Why A Muslim Man In Gujarat Faces Life In Prison For The Crime Of Transporting Cattle

10 Feb 2023

‘Indian Women’s Education Rates Are Rising, Fertility Falling, But A Marriage Penalty Keeps Them From Working’

08 Feb 2023

Kashmir’s Proxy Sarpanches: Women Elected To Reserved Seats Have Become Rubber Stamps For Men

07 Feb 2023

3 Years Since Delhi Police Accused Jamia Students Of Rioting, Chargesheets Reveal They May Have No Case

03 Feb 2023

The Pandemic Has Faded, But Thousands Of Orphaned Children Need Help & Counselling

01 Feb 2023

‘Problem of Christian, Love Jihad’: A Future Judge’s Bias Reveals Supreme Court Collegium’s Enduring Opacity

30 Jan 2023

Men’s Rights Activism In India Is Evolving, Intersecting With Right Wing Campaigns

27 Jan 2023

Food Companies, Govt Officials Steal Funds From Health Schemes Meant To Combat Malnutrition In Madhya Pradesh

25 Jan 2023

Why Courts Are Ignoring Concerns Of Planted Evidence In The Bhima-Koregaon Prosecution

23 Jan 2023

How Modi Govt Ended Or Slashed Financial Aid To Minority School, Higher Education & Foreign Study Schemes

20 Jan 2023

‘A Small Indian Elite Controls Narrative, Talk Of India’s Decade Is Juvenile Economics’

18 Jan 2023

Maharashtra Farmers Use ‘Water Budgeting’ To Improve Yields

17 Jan 2023

Supreme Court Acquittal Of 8 Men On Death Row Reveals Failures by Police, Prosecution & Lower Courts

16 Jan 2023

20 Years After Gujarat Riots, Muslim Survivors From Naroda Patiya Live Near A Mountain Of Trash

13 Jan 2023

Why Maharashtra Govt Move To Track Interfaith Marriages Is Unconstitutional & Further Endangers Women

11 Jan 2023

India’s Demotion To Electoral Autocracy Is Fair, Repeated Dismissal Of International Surveys Unhelpful, Global Ranking Expert Explains

09 Jan 2023

A 33-Year-Old’s Disappearance After Detention In Kashmir Reveals Latest Abuse Of Law For ‘Disturbed Areas’

06 Jan 2023

‘Number Of Hindu-Muslim Couples Seeking Help To Get Married Has Fallen. Such Is The Fear’

04 Jan 2023

Harassed, Raided, Starved Of Funding, Criminalised: The Year Kashmir’s Media Went Silent

30 Dec 2022

Modi Govt Warns 2 NGOs Seeking Donations From Citizens, Letters Show

29 Dec 2022

2022: The Year Hate Got Away Scot-Free In India

28 Dec 2022

Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani On Winning Elections Without Hate & Division

23 Dec 2022

The Trauma Of Kharak Satbari: How Home Demolitions Without Due Process Wrecked Lives In India’s Capital

21 Dec 2022

Why New Modi Govt SchemeTo Let Donors Directly Pay India’s TB Patients Is Unlikely To Help End The Disease By 2025

19 Dec 2022

‘India Only Seems To Wake Up To Reality When There Is An Atrocity’

16 Dec 2022

For Andhra, Telangana Farmers Hit By Climate Change, A Helpline Works To Stop Suicides

14 Dec 2022

The Flawed Trial of Afzal Guru & The Right To Legal Defence

12 Dec 2022

Condemning The Condemned: How India’s Death Penalty Targets The Vulnerable

10 Dec 2022

How Gujarat’s Rural Land Digitisation Programme Was Botched, Starting A Fresh Trail Of Land Litigation

09 Dec 2022

Arrest Of A Trinamool Spokesperson & The Selective Criminalisation Of Social Media In India

08 Dec 2022

Delhi Muslim Student Twice Arrested & Jailed. Not Enough Incriminating Material: Judge

07 Dec 2022

In Chhattisgarh, Adivasis Allege State Coercion, Demand Lawful Mining At One Of India’s Richest Iron-Ore Mines

05 Dec 2022

Homes Already Lost To Coastal Erosion, Kerala Fisherfolk Protesting Adani Port Say Their Livelihoods Are At Stake

02 Dec 2022

‘My Village Has Never Seen Light:’ Madhya Pradesh’s Adivasis Wait For Electricity

30 Nov 2022

How The Law Criminalises Forest Dwellers In Madhya Pradesh, Makes Them Face Long Trials For Hunting, Collecting Honey

29 Nov 2022

Hit By Catastrophic Floods, Pakistan Plays Lead Role In Securing Global ‘Loss-&-Damage’ Fund

25 Nov 2022

A Professor's Supreme Court Bail Hearing Is A Bellwether Case For Govt's Use of India's Anti-Terror Law

23 Nov 2022

Why India’s Laws Make Abortion Traumatic & Dangerous For Minors

21 Nov 2022

India’s New Telecom Bill Not Only Preserves 137-Year-Old Colonial Powers But Gives Govt Sweeping New Ones

18 Nov 2022

The Consequences Of Excluding India’s Oldest Mountain Range From The 2041 Plan For India’s Capital

17 Nov 2022

After SC Stopped His Release, G N Saibaba Wrote He Could No Longer Bear The Pain

15 Nov 2022

Recent Raids On The Wire Contrast With Easy Acceptance of Incendiary, Fabricated News By Govt-Friendly Media

11 Nov 2022

Unflagging, Unyielding Discrimination Makes Madhya Pradesh The State With India’s Highest Caste-Crime Rate

09 Nov 2022

‘Privacy Of Personal Data Is A Fundamental Right; Police Cannot Touch Your Personal Data Without Your Consent’

07 Nov 2022

Indian Women Are Sold & Resold For Marriage, Sexual Slavery, Child-Bearing, Cheap Labour

04 Nov 2022

A Fishing Village’s Last Gasp, As Climate Change, Industry & Pollution Sound A Death Knell

02 Nov 2022

In Police Denial That Hindu Mob’s Killing Of Muslim In UP Village Was A Communal Attack, A Pattern Emerges

31 Oct 2022

Andhra Govt Helps Itself To Citizens’ Data To Design Policy Despite Loss Of Privacy, Data Leaks

28 Oct 2022

Tamil Nadu Uses Preventive Detentions As A Substitute For Policing, Madras High Court Does Little

27 Oct 2022

Islamic Preachers Latest To Be Detained Under Feared J&K Law, As Kashmir Crackdown Widens

25 Oct 2022

In A Divisive Time, An Indian Politician Quits Her Party, Champions Human Rights Over All Else

22 Oct 2022

745 Days: Journalist Siddique Kappan Is Still In Jail Because Of A 2018 Case He Was Never Linked To Before His Arrest

19 Oct 2022

‘The Role Of The Regulator Is To Protect The Public, Not Pharma Companies’

19 Oct 2022

Under New Madhya Pradesh Law, 12-year-old Muslim Boy On Trial Before Tribunal To Recover Riot Damage

17 Oct 2022

The Right To Choose Vs The Need For Discipline: How Justices Differed On Hijab-Ban Verdict

14 Oct 2022

Rohingya Refugees Recall Desperate Conditions With No Legal Recourse In Delhi Detention Centre

12 Oct 2022

Delhi Riots: How BJP Leaders Created A Powderkeg That Led To 2020 Hindu-Muslim Violence

11 Oct 2022

Meet The Lawyer Behind India’s Historical Judgement On Abortion Rights

10 Oct 2022

What The Nobel Peace Prize Buzz Means For The Misinformation Battle In India, A Fact Checker Explains

07 Oct 2022

Inside The Shadowy, Deadly World Of Kashmir’s Teenage ‘Hybrid Militants’

06 Oct 2022

The Supreme Court’s Tough Options In Interpreting The Law That Decides Between Life Or Death

05 Oct 2022

Forced Marriage, Domestic Violence: Kashmiri Women Reach Out To A ‘Close Friend’ For Help

04 Oct 2022

An Important First Step On The Road to Reproductive Justice, But Safe Abortion Remains Out Of Reach

01 Oct 2022

A Muslim Journalist, Wrongfully Incarcerated On Terror Charges, Fought Back By Reporting On The Hindu Right

30 Sep 2022

After Decades In Jail, A 95-Year-Old Terror Convict Mounts A Legal Battle To Go Home To Die

29 Sep 2022

The Gujarat Model: Crackdown On Dissent Gathers Pace, Activists Threatened, Arrested, Externed

28 Sep 2022

A High Court Judge, Called ‘The Phantom’ Of West Bengal, Pushes The Boundaries Of Judicial Propriety

27 Sep 2022

‘Now I Get To Speak Out About What Is Happening To The Freedom Of Expression In India’

26 Sep 2022

How Kerala's Tea Plantation Workforce Was Reduced to Itinerant Labour In A Global Economy

23 Sep 2022

Meet The Lawyers Helping Poor, Bengali-Speaking Muslims Accused Of Being Foreigners Prove Citizenship

22 Sep 2022

A Decade Of Resisting Law That Gives Adivasis Rights Over Forests = Climate Disasters For Himachal Pradesh

21 Sep 2022

Dowry Was Banned 60 Years Ago. But Cases Are Rising, While Grieving Families Find Justice Harder Than Ever

20 Sep 2022

Minister Says New Forest Laws Don’t Dilute Tribal Rights. They Do—And Govt Planned Dilution since 2019

19 Sep 2022

The Rising Intimidation of India’s Muslims & The Criminalisation of Eating, Praying, Loving & Doing Business

16 Sep 2022

Sleep Deprivation, Slapping, Miming Sexual Acts: Inside The Murky World Of Ragging In Indian Colleges

14 Sep 2022

Talkative, Evolving & Never Missing A ‘Mulakat’: Umar Khalid After 2 Years In Prison

13 Sep 2022

Legal Battle Ahead For UP Muslim Restaurateur Arrested For Selling Chicken In Paper With Hindu Deities

12 Sep 2022

After 5 Years In Jail, 121 Chhattisgarh Adivasis Are Set Free But Find Freedom Hard To Regain

08 Sep 2022

Laws Are Altered, As Bullet & Freight Trains Set To Rip Through Maharashtra’s Fruit Basket

07 Sep 2022

Religious Conversion In Punjab: Not All Churchgoers Are Christian & That Makes Majority Sikhs Nervous

06 Sep 2022

Why India’s Stressed Farmers Have Restarted Protests: Modi Repealed Laws, But His Grand Promise Has Failed

05 Sep 2022

Why Siddique Kappan’s Bail Plea Is A Bellwether Case For Indian Journalism & India’s Justice System

02 Sep 2022

Public Protest In Bengaluru Is Now Confined—If The Police Allow—To A Small Park, Invisible To The Public

01 Sep 2022

As Temperatures Rise, Men Descending Into Hot, Noxious Sewers Are In Greater Danger Than Ever

31 Aug 2022

Jailed For Being The ‘Mastermind’ Of Prayagraj Violence, Muslim Activist Was Known For Keeping The Peace

29 Aug 2022

A 109-Year-Old Demand For A Tribal Homeland, Spread Across 4 States In The Heart Of India, Is Being Revived

26 Aug 2022

Lots Of Speeches, But No Action In Cases Of National Importance: The Legacy of Chief Justice Ramana

24 Aug 2022

Why Hundreds Of Kashmiri Scholars Are Rejected For Teaching Jobs In Kashmir Universities, Colleges

22 Aug 2022

‘We Are All Bilkis’: Lawyer Of 2002 Gangrape Survivor Says Onus To Fix Gujarat Remission Order Is Now On State & Society

19 Aug 2022

Objecting To Multi-Faith Prayer, Hindus In UP City Feared Conversion Of Children, Said Islamic Prayer Corrupts Them

18 Aug 2022

As Islamophobia Infects Indian Newsrooms, Muslim Journalists Persevere Amid The Bigotry

17 Aug 2022

Death, Absurdity & Despair In The Sewers of India

15 Aug 2022

A 16-year-old Law With Military Powers Threatens Homes & Livelihoods Of Fisherfolk On Manipur’s Loktak Lake

12 Aug 2022

In Kashmir, Wracked By Violence, Stress & Unemployment, Soaring Heroin Addiction Is Destroying Its Youth

11 Aug 2022

The Twisted Course Of Justice That Landed An Activist & Former Police Officer In Jail

10 Aug 2022

Another Strike Against The Free Press: Why A Journalist Who Stood With Adivasis Was Arrested

09 Aug 2022

MLA With A Long Criminal Record & Penchant For Anti-Muslim Hate Speeches Is Vital To BJP's Telangana Push

08 Aug 2022

As India Gets First Adivasi President, Plan To Boost Tribal Healthcare Has Been Ignored For 5 Years

05 Aug 2022

In Deferring To Govt Over The Money Laundering Law, The Supreme Court Has Created A New Normal

04 Aug 2022

They Know I Won’t Stop Doing What I Do: Fact-Checker Zubair On His Arrest, Rumour-Driven Interrogation & Life After

03 Aug 2022

Pipelines Reach More Homes, But As Climate Changes, India’s Women Still Make Long Marches For Water

01 Aug 2022

‘This Is A Life Or Death Thing. The Climate Emergency Is Quickly Degrading Life Support Systems On Earth’

29 Jul 2022

As India Says It Has No Unified Record Of Internet Shutdowns, New Report Reveals Impact On J&K, North East

27 Jul 2022

How ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ Videos Are Used To Thwart Muslims Contesting Elections, Criminalise Their Supporters

27 Jul 2022

Indian Govt Stops Kashmiri Journalists From Travelling Overseas, Gives No Reason

26 Jul 2022

With Fact & Faith, A Growing Band Of Concerned Citizens Battles Hate Speech In India

25 Jul 2022

Lack Of Evidence In Cases Against Prayagraj Activists For June Violence, All Involved In Anti-Govt Dissent

22 Jul 2022

As J&K Govt Vows Justice For Slain Officer, Family Wants His Wish Fulfilled: To Bring Their Dead Son Home

21 Jul 2022

Blackmail, Harassment & Threats: How Illegal Practices By India’s Digital Moneylenders Are Soaring

20 Jul 2022

Jailed Or Punished, With Or Without Trial: How The State Misuses The Law Against India’s Inconvenient Citizens

19 Jul 2022

Hundreds Are Stranded, As Modi Aide Governing Lakshadweep Withdraws Ships To Indian Mainland

18 Jul 2022

What 8.5 Million Tweets Targeting Rana Ayyub Tell Us About Online Violence & The Failure To Stop It

15 Jul 2022

A Newspaper Op-Ed Calls Journalists Terror Sympathisers: Paints A Target On The Backs Of What Is Left Of Kashmir's Free Press

14 Jul 2022

How Modi Govt Tweaked Appointment Rules To Enable Second Terms For Heads Of 2 Powerful Commissions

13 Jul 2022

Jailed For 2 Years In Saudi Arabia For Sending Phone No. to Iran, Kashmiri Man Gets No Help From Indian Govt

12 Jul 2022

How Delhi, UP Police & Judges Violated SC Guidelines In Arresting Alt News Co-Founder Mohd Zubair

11 Jul 2022

Raped, Mocked By Police For Seeking Justice: India’s Rape Laws Do Not Cover Transwomen

07 Jul 2022

Art As Profanity: Why The Arrest Of Vlogger Roddur Roy Differs From Others Who Abused Politicians

06 Jul 2022

NREGA Workers Are Losing Wages Because Of Mandatory App Attendance

05 Jul 2022

How A Hindu Organisation Facing Criminal Charges Is Menacing Churches In Andhra Pradesh

04 Jul 2022

Vulnerable To Frauds, Fakes & Breaches: Why Govt Auditor Served A Warning To Aadhaar

01 Jul 2022

Millions Of Children Will Soon Need Aadhaar IDs To Access Their Right To A Nutritious Meal

30 Jun 2022

Questions The Special Investigation Team Probing Gujarat Riots Did Not Ask Narendra Modi in 2010

28 Jun 2022

As Millions Devastated By Assam Floods, Double Tragedy For Evicted Bengali-Speaking Muslims

27 Jun 2022

Backroom Deals & Police Intimidation Of Workers, As Assam Tea Estate Is Razed For New Airport

24 Jun 2022

‘The Gods Are Not Going To Save Us Just Because We Are Married To Them’

23 Jun 2022

‘We Don’t Live A Normal Life [In Kashmir], So Why Should We Become Scapegoats For A Political Party?’

22 Jun 2022

Bengali Muslims Harassed & Detained In Bengaluru, As Police Sweeps For Illegal Bangladeshi Migrants Intensify

21 Jun 2022

Police Surveillance To Fake Criminal Cases: The Perils Of Exercising The Right To Information In Madhya Pradesh

20 Jun 2022

After Kanpur Violence, Lives Of Poor Muslims Upended, No Justice In Sight

18 Jun 2022

Pursuing Unity Through Lathis: The Pitfalls Of Arming The State To Secure Social Harmony

16 Jun 2022

Another BJP State, Another Demolition: In Assam, Kin Of Muslim Man Who Died In Custody Face Terror Case

15 Jun 2022

Since Ram Navami Violence, Gujarat’s Muslim Women Wage A Silent Battle, Allege State Bias

14 Jun 2022

‘It Could Happen To Any Muslim Family’: A Student Activist On Her Father’s Arrest & Demolition Of Her Home

12 Jun 2022

A Fact Checker Faces Threats, Criminal Cases For Drawing Attention To Hate Speech By Hindu Extremists

10 Jun 2022

As Telangana Industrialises, Names Of Hundreds Of Farmers Disappear From A Govt Land-Records Database

09 Jun 2022

Removal Of Hindu Deities By Govt Vs Hindu Claims On A Mosque: A Varanasi Judge’s Conflicting Decisions

08 Jun 2022

India’s Proposed New Privacy Law Will Make The Right To Privacy Hard To Enforce

07 Jun 2022

Debunking a 'Sealed' Myth: Only 17 Political Parties Of 105 In EC List Got Electoral Bonds

06 Jun 2022

Mumbai Principal Alleges Bias Against Her Hijab In Law College Run By Politician Popular Among Muslims

03 Jun 2022

4 Years After SC Decriminalised Homosexuality, Police Violence Against LGBTQIA+ People Hasn’t Stopped

02 Jun 2022

As The Land Collapses Beneath Them In Bengal’s Mining Belt, Thousands Who Lost Homes Await Long-Promised Rehabilitation

01 Jun 2022

To Demolish Gyanvapi, A Deluge Of Copy-Paste Petitions Aims To Overwhelm Muslim Defendants & India’s Judiciary

30 May 2022

Strike By Zomato ‘Partners’ Wins No Concessions But Brings A Benefit Unfamiliar To India’s Gig Workers

27 May 2022

Karnataka’s New Anti-Conversion Law Will Further Embolden Hindu Extremists Against Minorities

25 May 2022

Muslims & Dalits Face The Worst Residential Segregation & Discrimination In Urban Cities, Study Confirms

24 May 2022

A Flag, A Freedom Fighter & Hindu-Muslim Clashes: A Divided BJP Finds Common Cause In Rajasthan

23 May 2022

MP Dam Will Submerge Adivasi Lands, Homes: ‘Na Chahi’ Say Protestors

20 May 2022

Gyanvapi Mosque & Similar Litigation Illegal Under A 31-Year-Old Law, Yet Courts Keep Hearing Cases

19 May 2022

UP’s Growing Attacks On Christians: Police Use Bible, Prayer Groups As Evidence Of Illegal Conversion By Pastors

18 May 2022

How Hindu Extremist Bajrang Muni Has Terrorised A Muslim Family In UP

17 May 2022

As Courts Grant Bail, J&K Govt Uses 43-Year-Old Preventive Detention Law To Keep Hundreds In Jail

16 May 2022

India’s Unemployment Crisis: The Distress Is Worse Than The Data Suggest

13 May 2022

Hold The Celebrations: Supreme Court's ‘Hopes & Expects’ Order Misses Opportunity To Judicially Review Sedition

12 May 2022

In A Time Of Religious Tension, Bengaluru’s Police & Religious Leaders Push Inter-Faith Traditions

11 May 2022

After 8 Years Of Pleas, Kashmiri Pandits In Haryana Say BJP Govt Won’t Give Them Financial Assistance

10 May 2022

Friends, Family & Favours: Why The Karnataka Wildlife Board Refused To Create A Protected Area

09 May 2022

Alienated & Giving Up On Their Dreams: What Karnataka’s Hijab Ban Has Done To Muslim Women Students

06 May 2022

How MP’s New Excise Law Criminalises Traditional Liquor Brewers, Even Contains A Death Sentence

05 May 2022

A Construction Worker With A Masters In Chemistry: In ‘Naya Kashmir’, A Spiralling Unemployment Crisis

04 May 2022

Pune Police Evade The Law By Dodging Questions On Use Of Israeli Spyware On Indian Citizens

03 May 2022

Dead-End Jobs, One Room Quarters: Why Islamophobia Won't Get The Kashmiri Pandits Home

02 May 2022

In A Riot-Torn MP Town, Hindus Organise An Economic Boycott Of Muslims

29 Apr 2022

Mamata Banerjee’s ‘Model’ To Gather Land For Industry Bypasses Critical Requirements Of The Law

27 Apr 2022

Declared Illegal Immigrants, Detained For 18 Months, Then Found To Be Indian: An Assam Muslim Family’s Trauma

26 Apr 2022

Demolitions As Collective, Illegal Punishment, With Mainly Muslim Properties Destroyed After Riots

25 Apr 2022

Pushed To The Wall, Jahangirpuri’s Muslims Demand Fair Treatment By Judiciary, Police & Media

22 Apr 2022

Life Expectancy of Adivasis, Dalits & Muslims Substantially Lower Than Upper- Caste Hindus: New Studies

21 Apr 2022

24 Children–Mostly Adivasi Girls–Go Missing in MP Every Day, But It Isn’t Considered An Extraordinary Situation

20 Apr 2022

3 Months After Dalit Journalist Was Abused, Threatened With Death For Burning Manusmriti, No Arrests

19 Apr 2022

Kashmir’s New Electoral Map Boosts Hindu Electoral Influence & Reduces Muslim Representation

18 Apr 2022

Inside The Online Ecosystem Of Misogyny That Campaigns Against A Law To Punish Men For Raping Their Wives

15 Apr 2022

Why A Journalist & 7 Theatre Artistes Were Attacked, Paraded In Underwear By Madhya Pradesh Police

14 Apr 2022

‘When Will Papa Come Back?’: Family, Ambition & The Death of 2 Young Dalits In A Lucknow Sewer

13 Apr 2022

Kerala Police’s Social Media Surveillance Reveals A Double Standard As Hindu Extremists Go Unpunished

12 Apr 2022

Anti-Terror Law Used Against Kashmir Shia Mourners, 8 Arrested 7 Months After Muharram Procession

11 Apr 2022

Muslim Vendors Scarred By Delhi’s So-Called Meat Ban, Terrified & Confused About The Future

09 Apr 2022

Why Delhi’s Ban On Selling Meat During Hindu Festival Is Illegal & Violates India’s Constitution

08 Apr 2022

Devoted To Jamia For Decades, Alumni President’s Two-Year-Long Incarceration Leaves A Void

07 Apr 2022

Killed For Sporting A Moustache: Dalits In Rajasthan’s Feudal Villages Face Rising Tide Of Caste Violence

06 Apr 2022

In Punjab, Caste Discrimination In Key Employment Guarantee Programme Denies Minimum Wage To Dalits, Women

05 Apr 2022

Why Journalist Rana Ayyub, Barred By The Govt From Leaving The Country, Won't Stop Writing Or Tweeting

04 Apr 2022

How Hindu Extremists, Aided By The Govt, Are Tearing Apart Ancient Ties Between Muslims & Hindus

01 Apr 2022

Karnataka’s Govt Is Misinterpreting & Widening A High Court Order & Its Own Ruling On A College Hijab Ban

31 Mar 2022

Delicate Truce Along LoC Completes A Year, Kashmiris On The Border Now Seek A New Normal

30 Mar 2022

Jailed For 5 Months After Reporting Floundering Govt Hospitals, MP Journalist Intends To Fight Govt In Court

29 Mar 2022

Beaten, Abused By Inmates & Labelled A ‘Terrorist’, Former Lawyer On Bail In Delhi Riots Case Expresses Faith In Constitution

28 Mar 2022

UP Police Officer’s Lynching: Why A Vigilante Who Led A Murderous Hindu Mob Isn’t Charged With Murder

25 Mar 2022

In Karnataka’s Biggest Solar Park, As Land & Livelihoods Lost, A Warning To India’s Solar Dreams

24 Mar 2022

In State That Drove Laws Guaranteeing Info & Work, New Law To Hold Govt Accountable Is Put On Hold

23 Mar 2022

Why Kashmir’s Battered Women Want Orders From Reluctant Courts To Share Households With Their Abusers

22 Mar 2022

UP’s Selective & Soft Prosecution Of A Union Minister’s Son Accused In Killing Of 8 People By SUV

21 Mar 2022

At UP’s Hate-Crime Scenes, Lack Of Justice Leaves Enduring Fear, As Hindus, Muslims Drift Apart

18 Mar 2022

‘In Karnataka, Cultural Practices Basavanna Fought Against Are Getting Reintroduced’

17 Mar 2022

The Bail Order That Freed Delhi Riots Accused Ishrat Jahan Walks A Legal Tightrope

15 Mar 2022

Why The Percentage Of Muslim Prisoners In India’s Jails Is Disproportionate to Their Population In India

15 Mar 2022

How The Delhi Police Are Disproving Their Own Case Against Political Activist Umar Khalid

14 Mar 2022

As Yogi Returns, Families Of UP Hate-Crime Victims Narrate Long, Fearful Tryst With His Justice System

11 Mar 2022

Forced Burial Of Dalit Sanitation Worker Who Fought For His Rights Reveals Endemic Bihar Police Violence

09 Mar 2022

Journalists In UP Face A Flood Of Criminal Cases From Yogi Adityanath’s Govt

08 Mar 2022

Driven Home By Covid, Stranded During Taliban Takeover, Hundreds Of Afghan Students Await Return to India

07 Mar 2022

The Security Playbook Used To Erode Democracy In Modi’s India & How The Tide Might Turn

04 Mar 2022

Inside The Online Ecosystem Shielding Modi Govt & Mocking Indian Students In Ukraine

03 Mar 2022

The Legal Exception Forcing Married Indian Women Into A Cycle Of Sexual Abuse and Spousal Violence

01 Mar 2022

Jailed For 22 Months, Former Jamia Alumni President Asks If Stringent Laws Are Only For Muslims

28 Feb 2022

Led By Complaints From Hindu Groups, Police Violate SC Rules, Accuse 27 Young Assamese Muslims Of Sedition

25 Feb 2022

Govt Critics, Dissenters, Anti-CAA Activists: In Assam, Anti-BJP Actions Seen As Acts Of Sedition

24 Feb 2022

Greed & Power Override Myth As India’s Poorest State Strives To End The Hunting Of Witches By 2023

23 Feb 2022

Behind The Hijab: The Karnataka Girls Who Will Not Be Intimidated, Segregated, Told What To Wear By Hindutva Groups

21 Feb 2022

Election Commission Gives 2 Voting Rights But Punjab Govt Only 1 Salary For Conjoined Twins

20 Feb 2022

With Arrest of Editor After Reporting Both Sides Of Story, Govt Escalates Criminalisation Of Journalism In Kashmir

18 Feb 2022

The Incomplete Project Of E-Shram, India’s Database Of Unorganised Workers

17 Feb 2022

Abetted By State Govt, Hindu Group In Himachal Pradesh Burns Crops, Demands Eviction Of Muslim Tribe

16 Feb 2022

Madhya Pradesh Govt Wants Adivasis To Complain Against Moneylenders. Here’s Why They Cannot

15 Feb 2022

3 Months Before Polls, Uttarakhand’s BJP Govt Made Mining Easier In State Ravaged By Landslides, Deforestation

14 Feb 2022

Two Days After Journalist’s Paper On Hate Crime In India Is Published, Forbes Middle East Fires Her

11 Feb 2022

‘There Is No Need To Fear Anyone Or Anything:’ Karnataka Student On How She Faced A Hindu Mob Alone

10 Feb 2022

Making Of A Maoist: Jharkhand Police Declare Villagers Wanted Maoists, Lure & Coerce Them To Surrender

09 Feb 2022

Hindutva Groups Ordered UP Police To File Sedition Cases, And Yogi’s Police Obeyed

08 Feb 2022

The Law As A Communal Weapon Of The State: Why UP’s Muslim CAA Protestors Face Sedition Cases

07 Feb 2022

A Decade of Darkness: Our New Database Reveals How A Law Discarded By Most Democracies Is Misused In India

04 Feb 2022

Police & Govt Ally With Hindu Groups Intimidating, Attacking Christians In MP, 0.29% Of State Population

03 Feb 2022

57 Years After India Gave Them Refuge, Former Refugees From East Pakistan Threatened By Indian Xenophobia

02 Feb 2022

Between Two Steel Projects: Why Conflict Is Brewing In A Quiet Odisha Village’s Betel Groves

31 Jan 2022

‘We Must Never Give Up Hope. It Is Tempting To Give Up Or To Give In, But We Must Never Despair’

28 Jan 2022

An Arbitrary Crackdown On Foreign Donations Cripples NGOs At A Time When India Needs Them Most

27 Jan 2022

Climate Change Makes The Hard Life Of India’s Invisible Women Farmers Harder

26 Jan 2022

The Djokovic Deportation: Why Australia’s Hardline Appears Soft Compared to Assam’s

25 Jan 2022

Adityanath’s Cow-Protection Drive Is Killing UP’s Cattle Trade & Devastating Farms

24 Jan 2022

Corruption Allegations Felled The UPA, But Modi’s Bribery-Fighting Lokpal Has Little To Do

22 Jan 2022

24 Months After 5 Killed In Meerut In Police Crackdown On Anti-CAA Protests, No Probe & No Answers

20 Jan 2022

84 Days In Jail, 7 Bail Hearings Postponed, Kashmiri Students Languish In UP Jail For WhatsApp Congratulations

19 Jan 2022

‘I Am Ready To Put On My Black Coat’: Lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, Out On Bail After 3 Years In Jail

18 Jan 2022

5 Years Of UP’s Animal Slaughter Ban: Poor Pushed Out Of Meat Trade, Meat Out Of Meals

17 Jan 2022

‘If You Want A Hindu State, You Will Have To Destroy Democracy’

15 Jan 2022

72-Hour Shifts In Hospitals, Junior Docs In Delhi Battle Third Wave Fatigued & Stressed

14 Jan 2022

Fair Game: To Throttle Dissent, Kashmir Police Now Arrest Women For Peaceful Protest

13 Jan 2022

Assam's Hasina Bhanu Won A 20-Year Legal Battle To Prove She Was Indian. It Came At A Cost

12 Jan 2022

As Hindu Extremists Repeatedly Call For Muslim Genocide, The Police Ignore An Obvious Conspiracy

10 Jan 2022

Why Proposals For New Constituencies in J&K Spur Fears Of Muslim Marginalisation

07 Jan 2022

Denied Lawful Compensation For Land Acquired for Noida International Airport, Farmers Contest Modi’s Claims

06 Jan 2022

Why The Hindu Extremists Behind #BulliBai Feel Threatened By These Indian Muslim Women

05 Jan 2022

Families Splintered, Days In Detention Turn Into Months For Rohingya Refugees In India’s Capital

04 Jan 2022

India’s Potato-Chip Tussle: How Gujarat Farmers Won A Battle—But Not The War—Against Pepsico

03 Jan 2022

‘First They Came For Our Lifestyle, Then Our Livelihoods, Now Our Right To Life’

30 Dec 2021

Why Kashmiri Journalist Sajad Gul Faces Police Cases For Doing His Job

29 Dec 2021

‘Punjab Dalit Groups Supported The Farm Protests. The Ordinary Dalit Did Not.’

28 Dec 2021

Govt Has Cleared Linking Of Aadhaar & Voter Data. Past Experience Reveals How It Can Be Manipulated

27 Dec 2021

In Case Against Muslim Bangle Seller Attacked, MP Police List His Attackers As Witnesses

24 Dec 2021

Why Govt Move Of Raising Legal Age of Marriage For Women May Harm Instead of Benefiting Them

23 Dec 2021

Karnataka Releases Five-Year-Old Son Of Surrendered Naxals After Four Years In Prison

22 Dec 2021

2 Years After Contentious Citizenship Law Favouring Non-Muslims, Pakistani Hindu Refugees Are Angry

20 Dec 2021

In Kashmir, The Random—And Rampant—Use of India’s Anti-Terrorism Law

17 Dec 2021

How Delhi & Raipur Ignored Expert Warnings To Clear Coal Mine In Vast Chhattisgarh Forest

16 Dec 2021

By Putting Civilians In Harm’s Way To Get To Militants, Army Violates Laws To Which India Is A Signatory

15 Dec 2021

3 Jharkhand Widows Struggle To Get By, Years After Cow Vigilantes Lynched Their Husbands

14 Dec 2021

As BJP Talks Up Law Against Conversions, Attacks Against Christians Rise In Karnataka

10 Dec 2021

Thousands Displaced To Create India’s ‘New Singapore’ Wait Years For Unfulfilled Promises

09 Dec 2021

My Amnesty Experience & How Modi Govt ‘Wreaked Havoc’ On India’s NGO Sector

08 Dec 2021

The Rise Of India’s Police State: Shadowy New Agencies With Shadowy Powers

07 Dec 2021

Singled Out For Dismissal: UP Govt’s Selective Action Against Kafeel Khan Continues

06 Dec 2021

In Rajasthan, The Viral Video Is Used As A Tool Of Violence Against Dalits

03 Dec 2021

India’s Spiralling Sedition Crisis & Why A Dilution Of The Law Will Not Prevent Its Misuse

02 Dec 2021

"I Realised That Only What The Chief Minister Wants Will Happen"

01 Dec 2021

Pastors Attacked, Churches Ransacked, But Uttarakhand Police File Cases Against Victims

30 Nov 2021

A Fake Gunbattle In Kashmir & A Widow’s 25-Year Battle For Justice

29 Nov 2021

The Ostracisation & Unwavering Faith Of Sister Lucy Kalappurakkal

26 Nov 2021

How Odisha Government Kept The Public Out Of A Public Hearing For A Bauxite Mine

25 Nov 2021

To Global Criticism, Kashmiri Civil-Rights Activist Is Arrested On Terror Charges, ‘Waging War’

24 Nov 2021

How India’s Govt Is Setting In Place A New Structure For A Dysfunctional Parliament

23 Nov 2021

The J&K Govt Is Dismissing Govt Employees By Selectively Quoting The Constitution

22 Nov 2021

Dissenters, Victors, Still Protestors: Why Farmers Do Not Intend To Stop Protests

21 Nov 2021

Deepa Mohanan Won A Rare Battle Against Academic Casteism, But It Wasn’t Because Of The Law

19 Nov 2021

Unequal Before The Law: Bail Is The Rule For Hindu Hate Speech, Jail The Norm For Rights Campaigners

18 Nov 2021

Modi Govt Keeps Financial Deal With Bharat Biotech Secret, Covaxin Among World’s Costliest Vaccines

16 Nov 2021

The Pandemic Provides Answers To How The Supreme Court Can Be Taken Beyond New Delhi

15 Nov 2021

The Human Cost Of Mining Coal In A State-Run Company & Keeping India’s Furnaces Going During The Pandemic

13 Nov 2021

In Uttar Pradesh, The Yogi Govt's War Against Journalists Is Chilling Free Speech

11 Nov 2021

Since Hathras, Muslim Scholar In UP Jail With A Cardiac Condition: The ‘Next Stan Swamy’?

10 Nov 2021

After Tripura Muslims Faced Mob Attacks, Muslim Twitter Handles Nationwide Face Police Action

09 Nov 2021

The Decline Of Judicial Responsibility And The Extinguishing Of India’s Laws And Indian Lives

08 Nov 2021

Hashtags & Threats: A Hindutva Campaign, Police Inaction Wreck Comic Munawar Faruqui’s Shows

06 Nov 2021

More Vulnerable Than Ever, Construction Workers Protest Failures Of Law Meant To Protect them

05 Nov 2021

Small Hydro Power Projects Are Seen As Green. In The Western Ghats, Local Communities Disagree

03 Nov 2021

Justice For UP’s Dalit Rape Victims: A Tale Of Caste Entitlement, Police Apathy

02 Nov 2021

Crime As Punishment: How India’s Public Backs Extrajudicial Killings By The Police

01 Nov 2021

India Relies On Deforestation & An Impossible Pledge To Meet A Major Climate-Change Commitment

29 Oct 2021

Hit By Farm Losses, UP Farmers End Lives Waiting For Modi’s Crop Insurance

28 Oct 2021

Mainstream Media Caged, J&K Govt Turns The Heat On Freelancers

26 Oct 2021

How Cartoons Vanished From Newspapers In Kashmir

25 Oct 2021

Hungry Nation: Govt Outrage About Global Ranking Cannot Hide Distress In Indian Homes

23 Oct 2021

Remain Hungry Or Die Far From Home: The Life-Vs-Livelihood Dilemma Of Kashmir’s Migrant Workers

22 Oct 2021

In India’s Capital, A Muslim-Dominated Neighbourhood Has Had A Govt Hospital For 14 Years—On Paper

20 Oct 2021

The Prime Minister Likes Seaplanes. Environmental Laws Are Being Swept Aside For Them

19 Oct 2021

Rohith Vemula’s Stardust & The End Of A Dalit Teen’s Dreams

18 Oct 2021

Frances Haugen & Facebook’s Failure To Check Anti-Muslim Hate Speech In India

15 Oct 2021

‘If Tribals Cut 1 Tree, They Are Criminals. If Thousands Of Trees Are Cut, It Is Lauded As Development’

14 Oct 2021

Drones To Resolve Rural Land Disputes: A Modi Govt Plan Spawns New Quarrels

13 Oct 2021

How Denial Of Coffee To Santosh D D Ended In Dalits Entering Temples For The First Time In A Karnataka Village

12 Oct 2021

How 3 Women, Child Who Travelled From Kerala To UP To Meet Kin In Jail Were Locked Up

11 Oct 2021

Assam’s Evictions Are Turning Skilled Bengali Muslim Farmers Into Labourers

08 Oct 2021

Chhattisgarh’s Adivasis Are On 300-Km March To Save The Hasdeo Forests, Latest In A Decade-Long Protest Against Coal Mining

07 Oct 2021

Three Years After #MeToo, The High Price Of Speaking Up

06 Oct 2021

Muslim Bangle Salesman Attacked In August Still In Jail, Others Like Him Scared To Travel

05 Oct 2021

Leading Delhi Govt Juvenile Drug Reform Home Scars The Children It Is Supposed To Protect

04 Oct 2021

Why Rajasthan’s Law On Registration Of Child Marriages Is Legally Sound But Unlikely To Stem The Tide

01 Oct 2021

Pushed By Protests, Govts & Courts Are Ceding—Some—Benefits To India’s Army Of Female Health Workers

30 Sep 2021

Kabul To Kashmir: Taliban Rule Fuels Pan-Islamic Militancy Worries

29 Sep 2021

Singling Out Muslims: Bihar Govt Asks Citizens To Identify, Report ‘Illegal Immigrants’

28 Sep 2021

Poverty, Hunger, Anaemia: Covid-19 Intensifies Hidden Epidemics

27 Sep 2021

‘Prison Almost Killed Me’: A Muslim Man’s 17 Months In A Delhi Jail With A Bullet In His Shoulder

24 Sep 2021

How Latest Crime Data Set Back The Fight Against Modern Indian Slavery

23 Sep 2021

The UP Rape Victim’s Ordeal By Fire & The Impunity Of Powerful Men

22 Sep 2021

Abandoned By Their Country: The Tale of 2 Indian ‘Spies’ In A UAE Jail

21 Sep 2021

Less Than 1% Of Thousands Of Trafficked Children Were Compensated For Their Ordeal

20 Sep 2021

How 2 Landmark Laws Can Come Together To Make India’s Forest Communities Secure

17 Sep 2021

Why An Assam Teen Left Her Home In Secret, On A Cross-Country Journey To Clean Fish In An Unknown City

16 Sep 2021

Why Indians In Live-In Relationships Must Be Wary Of Seeking Protection From Courts

15 Sep 2021

11 Years After Kashmiri Teen Died From Police Torture, No Probe, No Chargesheet. His Family Aren’t Giving Up

14 Sep 2021

11 Ways The Delhi Police Have Muddied The Delhi-Riots Investigation

13 Sep 2021

How A Programme To Empower Adolescents In UP Changed Attitudes To Violence, Health & Education

10 Sep 2021

How The UP Police Stretch Criminal Law To File Criminal Cases Against Critics of Modi & Yogi

09 Sep 2021

Behind The BJP’s 2-Child Policies, An Anti-Muslim Agenda That Will Endanger All Indian Women

08 Sep 2021

Why It Is Time For India To Consider Gender-Neutral Rape Laws

07 Sep 2021

As India’s Gig Workers Died Of Covid-19, Their Families Received Neither Govt Nor Company Aid

06 Sep 2021

‘It Is Not Hindus Or Muslims Who Are In Danger, Democracy Itself Is In Danger’

03 Sep 2021

In India’s Capital, With No School For 18 Months, A Learning & Nutrition Crisis Sets Back Its Poorest Children

02 Sep 2021

Why It Is Time To Recognise Marital Rape As A Crime

01 Sep 2021

Buddhist-Majority Leh & Muslim-Majority Kargil Unite To Demand Autonomy For Ladakh

31 Aug 2021

As India’s Abortion Law Completes 50 Years, Malayalam Cinema Shines A Light On Women’s Right To Choose

30 Aug 2021

How Police Use Unverified Videos To Allege Sedition

27 Aug 2021

The Man Who Fought Punjab’s Secret Police Cremations

26 Aug 2021

Not A Militant But A Terrorist: Censors Tell Kashmir Newspapers To Control The Narrative

24 Aug 2021

Why Gujarat’s Jaggu Bhai, A Dalit, Faces A Fine 45 Times Greater Than His Monthly Electricity Use

20 Aug 2021

Clearance For A Jammu Dam Reveals How Fake Govt Claims Deprive India’s Tribals Of Legal Rights

19 Aug 2021

As BJP & Congress Vie For Ascendancy, Rajasthan Adivasi Group Distances Itself From Hinduism

17 Aug 2021

Next in New Delhi’s Playbook To Quell Kashmir Dissent: No Passport For Protestors

16 Aug 2021

Event Calling For Genocide Against Muslims In India’s Capital Latest In An Unhindered Spiral Of Hate Speech

13 Aug 2021

Acquitted For Bombings in Delhi After 12 yrs, Former Medical Rep Now A Popular Faith-Healer In Kashmir

12 Aug 2021

Pride & Prejudice: India’s Trans People Among Worst Victims Of Covid-19

11 Aug 2021

The Lack Of Evidence To Confirm Obvious Environmental Damage Is Derailing Local Battles For Justice

10 Aug 2021

The Govt Assumes 3 Times Fewer Indians Are Trafficked Than They Actually Are

09 Aug 2021

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

06 Aug 2021

Arrested, Denied Bail And Allegedly Tortured: The Story Of A Kashmiri Politician Who Had No Problem Being Indian

05 Aug 2021

How The Punjab Police Use An Anti-Narcotics Law To Land Payoffs & Sexual Favours

04 Aug 2021

‘They say, ‘Truth will finally prevail’. But how long is it going to take? And how much damage is being done in the process?’

03 Aug 2021

India Invited These Pakistani Women Across The Border, Then Rescinded The Offer

02 Aug 2021

The UAPA Is One Of Many Modern-Day Avatars Of The Draconian, Colonial Rowlatt Act

30 Jul 2021

How 5 Reliance Workers Fighting For A Better Deal Found Themselves In Jail On Terrorism Charges

29 Jul 2021

Why Amnesty Has Irked Indian Govts & Why It Is Hard To Remove

28 Jul 2021

Rafale Deal Has ‘Systemic Elements Of International Corruption’, Against Indian National Interest: French NGO

27 Jul 2021

Shadow Bans, Criminal Cases, Takedowns: Inside India’s Expanding Digital Crackdown

26 Jul 2021

The Dalit Widows Of Punjab, Shackled To A Pillar Of Debt

23 Jul 2021

Law To Protect Dalits Infrequently Used In J&K, 2 Years After State Was Dismantled

22 Jul 2021

As Pegasus Snoop Is Revealed, India Allows Surveillance State With No Legal Safeguards

20 Jul 2021

As Higher-Caste Influential Hindus Turn Vegetarian, States, Govts Try To Enforce Vegetarianism

19 Jul 2021

Accused Of Sedition, Terrorism For A Speech, JNU Student Steadfast After 535 Days In Jail

16 Jul 2021

None Convicted, All Condemned: The Heavy Price Of Facing A Sedition Case

15 Jul 2021

How India’s Sedition Law Is Used As A Private, Political, Communal Weapon

14 Jul 2021

Karnataka Has More Sedition Cases Based On Social-Media Posts Than Any State. Most Are Illegal

13 Jul 2021

A Himalayan District With Scant Internet Works Around CoWIN App To Vaccinate People

12 Jul 2021

Exonerated, Still Anxious: ‘Harassed For Being Muslims’

09 Jul 2021

How Gujarat Police Used Islamophobia To Build Terror Case With No Evidence Against 124 Men

08 Jul 2021

India & Pakistan Govts United In Illegally Using Sedition Law Despite Court Warnings

07 Jul 2021

After Half Year In Jail, Teen Victim Of UP ‘Love-Jihad’ Law Faces Long Legal Battle

06 Jul 2021

The Silent Pandemic Of Violence Against India’s Women

05 Jul 2021

In Wake Of Covid-19, India’s Unfolding Pandemic Of Hunger

01 Jul 2021

Indians Believe In Religious Tolerance—And Segregation: New Survey

30 Jun 2021

Covid-19 Triggers Cycle Of Debt For Millions Of Indian Families

02 Jul 2021

The Kashmiri Stories That Modi’s New Political Dialogue Ignored

28 Jun 2021

In Run Up To Political Dialogue, No Respite For Kashmir’s Besieged Media

25 Jun 2021

How Retribution Increases Trauma Of Families Of Kashmiri Militants, Boosts Alienation

24 Jun 2021

Indian Judiciary’s Lack Of Representation Is A Problem For Queer Inclusion

23 Jun 2021

4 Years After Muslim Teen’s Murder, A Family Keeps Faith In Slow Wheels Of Justice

22 Jun 2021

Death Count In 24 UP Districts 43 Times More Than Official Covid-19 Toll

21 Jun 2021

How Natasha, Devangana, Asif Survived A Year In Tihar Jail

20 Jun 2021

Why The Pandemic Is A Child Rights Emergency In India

18 Jun 2021

'An Episodic Approach To The Pandemic Is Bound To Fail'

17 Jun 2021

The New Child Brides Of India’s Covid-19 Pandemic

16 Jun 2021

‘Religion Can Give You Identity. It Cannot Get You An Oxygen Cylinder’

15 Jun 2021

The Shadowy World Of The ‘Justice For Sushant Singh Rajput’ Campaign

14 Jun 2021

Roiled By Mass Adivasi Protests, Congress Adopts BJP Methods In Chhattisgarh

11 Jun 2021

Govt Think Tank Hand-Picked SC Rulings To Probe Judicial Activism

10 Jun 2021

India’s Vaccination Policy Is Leaving Behind Women, Poorest Indians

08 Jun 2021

FIRs, Threats & Censorship: UP Govt Response To Covid Surge

07 Jun 2021

Narendra Modi & The Myth Of The Bad Jamia Student

05 Jun 2021

The Central Vista Project & The Loss of The Public-Trust Doctrine

03 Jun 2021

Reporter, Truth-Seeker, Family Man: The Siddique Kappan You Don’t Know

02 Jun 2021

In Kashmir, Police Treat Pandemic As A Law-And-Order Problem

01 Jun 2021

For Defying Army Patrol, Kashmir Woman In Jail 44 Days On Terror Charges

28 May 2021

‘Where Does All the Grief Go?’ 1,621 UP Teachers Die In Panchayat Polls

27 May 2021

After Kashmir, Delhi Sets Sights On Another Muslim-Majority Region

26 May 2021

Undocumented Tide Of Death Overwhelms Rural India As Cities Stabilise

25 May 2021

After Deadly Second Covid-19 Wave Fiasco, Third Wave Looms Over Goa

24 May 2021

Unchecked Tsunami Of Online Sexual Violence By Hindu Right Against India's Muslim Women

21 May 2021

Death, Disbelief & An Odd Resistance In UP’s Rural Hinterland

20 May 2021

How Election Commission, Political Parties Spurred The Second Covid Wave

18 May 2021

2 Modi Govt Advisers Warned New IT Rules Beyond Scope Of Law, Were Overruled

17 May 2021

As Covid-19 Rages, J&K Moves Prisoners To Jails In Worse-Off States

14 May 2021

Burnout, Grief As Delhi's Healthcare Workers Face Covid Mayhem

13 May 2021

In UP’s Vast Agra District, Govt Ensures Death & Pandemic Go Unrecorded

12 May 2021

Manipuris Help Myanmar Refugees, Ignoring BJP Order To ‘Politely’ Turn Them Away

11 May 2021

In Uttar Pradesh, India's Covid-19 Storm Gathers Deadly Force

10 May 2021

Flood Of Islamophobia After BJP MP Publicly Names, Shames Govt Workers

07 May 2021

How One Bureaucrat Ensured Enough Oxygen For His Remote Tribal District

06 May 2021

The Inside Story Of Why Delhi’s Diplomatic Community Asked India’s Opposition For Help

04 May 2021

India’s Pandemic Set To Worsen. Infections May Double, Deaths Will Rise

04 May 2021

As Supreme Court Sat Out The Pandemic, High Courts Filled The Gaps

03 May 2021

BJP States Hiding Covid-19 Deaths Are Endangering India’s Health Response

30 Apr 2021

Citizens Are Plugging India’s Gaping, Governance Gaps In Covid Care

29 Apr 2021

In Court: Tushar Mehta Jibes, Blocks. Outside: No Oxygen & Death

28 Apr 2021

‘Covid-19 Vaccines Not A Luxury.’ Former Health Secy Criticises Modi Govt Policy

27 Apr 2021

Modi’s Grand Insurance Scheme Prioritises Profit Over Farm Losses

26 Apr 2021

India’s Police Forces Turning Into Private Armies Of Elected Rulers

22 Apr 2021

In Bhima-Koregaon Case, More Damning Signs of Planted Evidence

21 Apr 2021

Why Modi Wanted To But Did Not Declare India Free Of Manual Scavenging

20 Apr 2021

The Hyderabad Model Of Ending Manual Scavenging Isn’t Working

19 Apr 2021

‘D-’: A Report Card For Delhi’s Effort To Mechanise Sewer Cleaning

16 Apr 2021

The Death Of The Mehtar Brothers, & A Govt Dodging Its Own Laws

15 Apr 2021

The Modern Form Of Untouchability Practised By Indian Govts

14 Apr 2021

A Kashmiri Father Digs The Land Every Day to Find His Dead Son

13 Apr 2021

‘Hindus, Muslims Have A Legacy Of Living, Working, Loving Together: Ghazala Wahab

12 Apr 2021

Why Attacks On Muslims Over ‘Love Jihad’, Cow Slaughter Are Soaring In Coastal Karnataka

09 Apr 2021

How Faruqui Co-Accused Went From Being Standup Comic To Making Plastic Bags

08 Apr 2021

The Rohingya Girl Whose Fate Is At The Mercy Of 3 Nations

07 Apr 2021

Why Seeking Public Accountability Is Deadly for Gujarati Dalits, Adivasis

06 Apr 2021

Why Farmers Flee Home To Live In The Slums Of India's Teeming Cities

05 Apr 2021

Laws Around Electronic Evidence Compromise India’s Criminal Justice System

02 Apr 2021

Why India's Jail System Sets Lifers Up For Failure

01 Apr 2021

Social-Media History Threatens Locals Seeking J&K Govt Jobs

31 Mar 2021

'Love Jihad': Made In Kerala, Exported Nationwide

30 Mar 2021

‘I Am Not Afraid Of Arrest, The Govt Can Do Whatever It Wants’

29 Mar 2021

A Year Since The Long Walk: Women Bear The Brunt

26 Mar 2021

A Year Since The Long Walk: Stuck At Home In Bihar

25 Mar 2021

Pakistan Backs Off, But Kashmiri Militants Die In Greater Numbers

24 Mar 2021

India’s Manufactured Amnesia Over Its Covid-19 Lockdown Deaths

23 Mar 2021

How Mamata’s Trinamool Broke The Glass Ceiling For Women In Politics

22 Mar 2021

Why Hidme Markam, A Voice For Adivasis, Is In Prison

19 Mar 2021

Govt Dilutes Environmental Safeguards—By Making Them Simpler

18 Mar 2021

How One Woman Broke The Silence Around Child Sexual Abuse In India

17 Mar 2021

2 Custodial Deaths & Official Brutality In God’s Own Country

15 Mar 2021

State Intimidation Forces Kashmiri Journalists To Self-Censor

12 Mar 2021

The Rohingya Crackdown, Covid-19 & India’s Refugee Discomfort

11 Mar 2021

Digital Media Rules Violate India’s Democracy & Constitution

10 Mar 2021

How Hindu Groups Forced Cancellation of Theatre Festival in MP

09 Mar 2021

The Anatomy Of An Extrajudicial Killing In Kashmir

08 Mar 2021

"Better Days Are Coming. Times Change Very Fast. There Is Always Hope": Safoora Zargar

04 Mar 2021

How Covid-19 Helped Govt Control Your Data & You

03 Mar 2021

Rich, Upper-Caste Land Owners Will Benefit Most In MP Land Scheme

02 Mar 2021

Govt Land Barter Deal Dodges The Law, Benefits The Rich

01 Mar 2021

Torture, Belief & A Love Letter: Khalid Saifi’s Year In Jail

26 Feb 2021

Dalit Labour Leader Shiv Kumar Tortured In Custody: Govt Doctors

25 Feb 2021

Disha Ravi’s Sedition Case Is Only Latest Without Evidence, Reason

24 Feb 2021

How Munawar Faruqui’s Arrest Scarred Lives Of 4 Others

23 Feb 2021

Why Govt Ditched Due Process For Nodeep Kaur & Shiv Kumar

22 Feb 2021

India’s Man-Tiger Conflict & The Trauma Of Illegal Relocation

19 Feb 2021

Why Twitter Didn’t Stand Up For Freedom Of Speech In India

17 Feb 2021

How The Law Was Misused In Arrest Of Disha Ravi

16 Feb 2021

Inside India’s War To Silence The Free Press

15 Feb 2021

Cities Divided: How Exclusion Of Muslims Sharpens Inequality

12 Feb 2021

Bigotry At Home: How Delhi, Mumbai Keep Muslim Tenants Out

11 Feb 2021

Kashmir’s Empty Graves & The Criminalisation Of A Father's Grief

10 Feb 2021

The Judge Who Got Child Sex Abuse Law Wrong—3 Times

09 Feb 2021

New Home Ministry Move: Citizens Will Spy On Citizens Online

08 Feb 2021

140 Changing Reasons For J&K’s High-Speed Internet Ban

05 Feb 2021

How Delhi Police Are Denying Riot-Accused A Basic Legal Right

05 Feb 2021

How India Cut Minimum Wages For Gulf-Bound Migrants In The Pandemic

04 Feb 2021

Our New Database Reveals Rise In Sedition Cases In The Modi Era

02 Feb 2021

As Laws Are Broken, A Fine Dust Of Despair Over Daburji & India

01 Feb 2021

Why Faruqui’s Bail Hearing Is A Theatre Of The Absurd

29 Jan 2021

Contradictory, Copycat Allegations As Evidence, MP HC Rejects Faruqui Bail

28 Jan 2021

How A BJP Supporter, Designated Terrorist Derailed India Farm Protest

28 Jan 2021

J&K’s ‘Land Jihad’ Bogey Stoked Islamophobia. But Mainly Hindus Benefited

26 Jan 2021

The Injustice of India’s Military Justice System

25 Jan 2021

Why The National Commission For Women Is Anti Indian Women

22 Jan 2021

Cow Laws In 10 States Empower Vigilantes. Karnataka’s Is The Latest

21 Jan 2021

The Real Effect Of India’s Digital Discrimination Of Rohingya Refugees

20 Jan 2021

Old Jokes About Hindi Song & Amit Shah = New Warrant Against Comic Faruqui

19 Jan 2021

Uttar Pradesh's Beacon Of Hope For India's Interfaith Couples

18 Jan 2021

Survivor Of ‘National Anthem’ Hate Crime In Delhi Riots Seeks Justice

15 Jan 2021

Muslim Comic Did Not Joke About Hindus, But ‘It Doesn’t Matter’: Police Chief

14 Jan 2021

Mother Seeks Killers Of Son, Beaten, Forced To Sing National Anthem By Police

13 Jan 2021

Copycat ‘Love-Jihad’ Laws In BJP States Shred Women’s Autonomy

12 Jan 2021

Arrested For ‘Love Jihad’, UP Teen Has Been In Jail For A Month

11 Jan 2021

Why Delhi Police Clear Diwali Concert But Stop Interfaith Love Event

09 Jan 2021

No Evidence, No Crime: Muslim Man In UP Arrested For Selling Shoes Is Freed

08 Jan 2021

Muslim Stand-Up Comic Jailed—For Jokes He Did Not Crack

07 Jan 2021

What India Legally Owes 1.9 Million People Held As Non-Citizens

06 Jan 2021

After Tribals, Apple Farmers, J&K Govt Begins Evicting Hotels In Quest For Land

05 Jan 2021

Mehmood Pracha & The Police Assault On The Zone of Privacy

04 Jan 2021

Interfaith Marriage & The Constituent Assembly

02 Jan 2021

POCSO Law & Justice For A Kindergartener: A Mother’s Tale

31 Dec 2020

The Dark Chronology Of India’s Cow-Slaughter Laws

30 Dec 2020

Why UP Govt Filed 25 Criminal Cases Against This Dalit Farmer

29 Dec 2020

Kashmir’s Pellet-Gun Victims Struggle To Be Suitable Grooms

28 Dec 2020

J&K Shuts Women’s Commission, Violence Against Women Rises

26 Dec 2020

India’s Wildlife Protection In Hands Of Those With Interests In Its Destruction

24 Dec 2020

Umar, Anirban & Their Conversations Of Hope

23 Dec 2020

Preaching Amity In UP Was Faisal Khan's Ticket To Jail

22 Dec 2020

Harsh Mander’s Near-Death Covid Experience In Delhi’s Hospitals

21 Dec 2020

Criminalised By Govt, Cleared By Courts: The Tablighi Story

18 Dec 2020

How Public Scrutiny Of Govt Has Ended in J&K, Ladakh

17 Dec 2020

‘Women Should Get Out Of Their Houses Whether They Are Hindu, Muslim, Christian or Sikh’

16 Dec 2020

The UP Govt Has Effectively Banned Interfaith Marriage

15 Dec 2020

Why Farooq Ahmad Dar Hides A Dark Secret From His Wife

14 Dec 2020

Why Assam Prohibits Murals Of Akhil Gogoi & Keeps Him In Jail

12 Dec 2020

‘Every Media House Is Directly Or Indirectly Under The Govt’

11 Dec 2020

Why J&K Govt Chopped 10,000 Apple Trees Of Muslim Farmers

10 Dec 2020

The Lost Lives Of India’s Muslim Terror Suspects

09 Dec 2020

How India Is Favouring Public Order Over Freedom

08 Dec 2020

Why 2 Law Students Appointed Themselves Guardians Of The Supreme Court

07 Dec 2020

“No One Knows About Me.” India’s ‘Left-Behind’ Women

04 Dec 2020

Uttar Pradesh’s ‘Love Jihad’ Law Is Sexist, Unconstitutional

03 Dec 2020

As Covid Parole Ends, Convicts Recall Delhi Prison Horror

02 Dec 2020

Criticism Of Govt Is Not Sedition: A Journalist’s Story

01 Dec 2020

Is The Global Reputation Of India’s Supreme Court In Decline?

30 Nov 2020

Kerala’s Attack On Online Speech A Deja Vu Moment For India

27 Nov 2020

Rape Trials Trapping Interfaith Couples Reveal Dangers Of UP’s ‘Love-Jihad’ Law

26 Nov 2020

Bangladesh Fundamentalism Fuels Hindutva Agenda In Poll-Bound Bengal

25 Nov 2020

Why Thousands Of Goans Are Braving A Pandemic To Stop Coal Trains

23 Nov 2020

Manipur’s Decade Of Grief, As Seen By A Top Police Officer

21 Nov 2020

In Pro-BJP Facebook World, Arnab Goswami Is A National Hero, Hindu Saviour

20 Nov 2020

The Central Law That Isn’t Being Allowed To J&K’s Muslim Tribals

19 Nov 2020

India’s Digital Divide Is Proving Fatal For Some Students

18 Nov 2020

Arnab Goswami & India’s Era Of Unequal Liberties

16 Nov 2020

Why Bohra Muslims In MP Are In Fear Over Firecracker Boxes

13 Nov 2020

Committed Without Consent: The War Against India’s Mentally Ill

12 Nov 2020

In Bihar, The Systematic Gagging Of India’s Sunshine Law

09 Nov 2020

The Case Against Marriage

07 Nov 2020

How UP Makes Cow Slaughter An Issue Of National Security

06 Nov 2020

‘Freedom Of Press Is In Everybody’s Interest’

05 Nov 2020

Why An Aged Defender Of The Deprived Faces Terror Charges

04 Nov 2020

An Attack In Hathras, And A Story Of Our Times

02 Nov 2020

Why The Death Penalty Is Not A Solution To India’s Rape Problem

31 Oct 2020

Why A Nobel Nominee Is A Target In Kashmir Crackdown

30 Oct 2020

Marital Rape: A Conversation India Refuses To Have

29 Oct 2020

The Lawyer Who Gave Hope To Those Without Hope

27 Oct 2020

Disease, Death And A Crackdown On Dissent In A Bihar Village

26 Oct 2020

The Young Woman Who Would Not Cry

23 Oct 2020

The Shadowy Online Hindutva World That Killed The Tanishq Ad

22 Oct 2020

Why It’s Time To Consider Same Sex Marriage

21 Oct 2020

Silent Eviction Of Newspaper, News Agency New Normal In J&K

20 Oct 2020

How The Special Marriage Act Is Killing Love

19 Oct 2020

‘Women At Shaheen Bagh Gave Me Hope’

16 Oct 2020

3 States Wage War Against India’s Corona Warriors

16 Oct 2020

The CAA Has Not Stopped Hindus Being Declared Foreigners In Assam

15 Oct 2020

As Covid-19 Goes Rural, Panic, Fatigue And Death In India's Richest State

13 Oct 2020

With UAPA After Bengaluru Riot, Innocence Or Guilt Of 163 Men Is Immaterial

12 Oct 2020

J&K HC Backs Free Speech, But It May Not Free Kashmir's Media

10 Oct 2020

Online Groups Stoked Anger Over Sushant Singh Rajput's Death

07 Oct 2020

The Hateful Facebook Adventures Of Ragini Tiwari & Friends

06 Oct 2020

Police Detain Kashmir Editor, Colleague At Gunpoint

05 Oct 2020

‘After 23 Years In Prison, I Am In Another Jail’

05 Oct 2020

Delhi 2012, Hathras 2020: A World Apart

04 Oct 2020

Govt Illegally Takes Over Land In Wildlife Sanctuaries, Parks

03 Oct 2020

The Creation Of A Vigilante State In Uttar Pradesh

02 Oct 2020

PM CARES: A Charitable Trust Run, Staffed, Defended By Govt

30 Sep 2020

The PM CARES Fund: Excused From India’s Laws

29 Sep 2020

Why BJP & Congress Leaders Opposed Leh Journalist’s Arrest

28 Sep 2020

The Judicial Abrogation of Rights & Liberties In Kashmir

25 Sep 2020

Violating Own Laws, Govt Set To Allow 12 New Western Ghat Projects

24 Sep 2020

The Dangerous Profession Of Journalism In Kashmir

22 Sep 2020

‘I Was Slapped, Bullied By Police For A Story On Cyberbullying’

21 Sep 2020

Contracts. PAN Cards. Lawyers: Why Farmers Have Reason to Fear Modi’s New Farm Deal

21 Sep 2020

The Book That The Delhi Police Want You To Read

18 Sep 2020

Police Question Kashmir Twitter Users For 'Anti-Govt' Posts

17 Sep 2020

How Kerala’s Left Govt Jailed 2 Young Men For Leftist Thought

16 Sep 2020

How A UP Mosque Disappeared Overnight

15 Sep 2020

Parliament’s Question Hour Was Subverted Before Suspension

14 Sep 2020

9 Kashmir Cricketers Were Imprisoned For This Picture

10 Sep 2020

Hunger Threatens India. Malls Open, But Anganwadis Stay Shut

09 Sep 2020

Govt Rushes Law To Use Mining Ravages Fund For Roads

08 Sep 2020

Why Changes To India’s 50-Year-Old Abortion Law Fail Its Women

07 Sep 2020

Justice Arun Mishra & The Supreme Court’s Rule Of Whim

05 Sep 2020

Prashant Bhushan: “People Must Realize What Is At Stake”

03 Sep 2020

‘No Purpose Served’ By More Jail For ‘Bright Student’ Sharjeel Usmani: Judge

02 Sep 2020

‘Kafeel Khan Decision Will Become History’ Says Family

01 Sep 2020

India ‘More Than Adequately Prepared’ For Covid Surge: Health Minister

01 Sep 2020

The Higher Judiciary’s Gender Representation Problem

31 Aug 2020

The Sudha Bharadwaj the Govt Doesn’t Want You To Know

28 Aug 2020

Inside Facebook’s BJP bond: Key Tie-ups With Modi Govt, Its Special Interests

26 Aug 2020

How India’s Rape-Survivors End Up Marrying Their Rapists

25 Aug 2020

Bombay HC’s Tolerance Lesson On Tablighis

22 Aug 2020

The Exile of Anti-CAA Activist Kaleem Siddiqui

22 Aug 2020

SC & Mr Bhushan: How the Mighty Have Adjourned

20 Aug 2020

How Indian Courts Define A Married Woman’s Place

19 Aug 2020

Police Get More Time To Prove “CAA Conspiracy” in Delhi Riots

18 Aug 2020

Prashant Bhushan’s Contempt & The Republic’s Feudal Vestige

16 Aug 2020

Meraj Shaikh’s Lost Body & Other Non-Covid Victims

14 Aug 2020

Fear, Panic And Mumbai’s Missing Hospital Beds

13 Aug 2020

Why Mumbai Was & Is India's Worst Covid Hotspot

12 Aug 2020

Back To A Time Before The Bhopal Gas Tragedy

11 Aug 2020

Police Torture & The Truth Machines Of India

10 Aug 2020

‘Govt Capable Of Lying To Court, And Court Is Looking The Other Way’

08 Aug 2020

Not Atmanirbhar: Schemes Falter, Migrants Return

07 Aug 2020

His Story Showcases Decline of Democracy in J&K

05 Aug 2020

An Infant’s Subversive Activities & Other Absurdities In J&K’s Legal Shadows

04 Aug 2020

Starcrossed Stargazers: Natasha And Devangana

03 Aug 2020

Upholding The Credibility Of The Supreme Court

31 Jul 2020

3 Laws & India’s Transition To A Hindu-First Nation

30 Jul 2020

Why It's Easier For Army To Take Over Land In J&K

29 Jul 2020

Why Hemant Soren Is Fighting Coal Auctions In SC

28 Jul 2020

12 Times In 5 Months: HC Delays Kafeel Khan Hearing

27 Jul 2020

Govt Ignores Court Order On Draft Green Law

27 Jul 2020

Araria Rape Survivor Shares Her Story

25 Jul 2020

New Notice Latest In 20-Year Dilution To Green Law

24 Jul 2020

Punjab Gurdwara Sermons Against Dalits Are Illegal

23 Jul 2020

4 Months In Jail For 2 UP Teens At CAA Protest Site

20 Jul 2020

Why This Report Says The Delhi Riots Were A Pogrom

18 Jul 2020

How The UAPA Is Perverting The Idea Of Justice

16 Jul 2020

As Alleged Rapists Roam Free, Rape Survivor Is Jailed

15 Jul 2020

Controversy Dogs Reform Of 160-Yr-Old Criminal Law

14 Jul 2020

Poet And Former Lecturer Varavara Rao Dying In Jail

12 Jul 2020

J&K Mosques Stay Closed, Prep For Amarnath Yatra Begins

11 Jul 2020

After Illegal Arrest, Protestor In Judicial Custody

10 Jul 2020

Vikas Dubey Killing Reflects Pattern of Police Impunity

10 Jul 2020

UN Letter Details Torture Allegations In Kashmir

08 Jul 2020

Rail Via Forest Breaks Laws, Imperils Global Treasure

08 Jul 2020

Kashmir’s New Media Policy Menaces Its Media

06 Jul 2020

Kafeel Khan: A Letter From Mathura Jail

04 Jul 2020

Fate Of Rs 18,000-Crore Govt Prestige Project In SC

04 Jul 2020

Aspiring Teacher Faces Terror Charges: Gulfishan Fatima's Story

03 Jul 2020

What The Sathankulam Custodial Murders Reveal

02 Jul 2020

Another Jail Birthday For Youngest In Bhima-Koregaon Case

01 Jul 2020

Courts’ Misogynistic Rules For Rape Survivors

29 Jun 2020

In New J&K, Adults Are Younger And Arrests Easier

27 Jun 2020

Liberty’s Lights Dim For ‘Foreigners’ Freed From Assam’s Detention Camps

25 Jun 2020

M.Phil Student Safoora Zargar Gets Bail After 70 Days

23 Jun 2020

Trial Courts Pass Death Verdicts They Should Not

22 Jun 2020

Kashmir’s ‘Lawless Law’ Awaits SC Decision

20 Jun 2020

Scroll FIR Latest In Cases Against Indian Journalists

18 Jun 2020

Under Cover Of Covid, India’s Poor Are Homeless

18 Jun 2020

The Curious Absence Of Law In Migrant Workers’ Cases

16 Jun 2020

Weakened Law Imperils Jobs, Nature in Indian Port

15 Jun 2020

‘My Nights are Nightmarish’: Journalist Masrat Zahra

13 Jun 2020

The Inner World Of Safoora Zargar

12 Jun 2020

Kerala's ASHAs Lead Covid-19 Charge, Get Little

11 Jun 2020

Promised, Mostly Never Paid: Rs 1,000 Covid Wage

10 Jun 2020

Distress Among Health Workers In Covid-19 Fight

09 Jun 2020

Karnataka's Female Workers Resist 10-Hour Work Day

08 Jun 2020

Jailed By Metaphor: The Safoora Zargar Bail Order

05 Jun 2020

The Sedition Trial Of Editor Dhaval Patel

05 Jun 2020

Kashmir’s Growing List Of Forgotten Inquiries

03 Jun 2020

A Home Film Brings Focus To Domestic-Violence Surge

02 Jun 2020

Solicitor General Made 6 Inaccurate Claims To SC

01 Jun 2020

Indramal Bai’s Death And How The Police Got Away

30 May 2020

Why Charan Singh Bolts His House From Inside And Out

29 May 2020

How Poverty-Struck Tribals Become ‘Habitual Offenders’

28 May 2020

Why Millions Cannot Claim Emergency Food Rations

26 May 2020

Coal Plant That India Does Not Need Threatens Forests

25 May 2020

Captain Sanaullah's Burden Of Extraordinary Proof

19 May 2020

New ‘Corona Ordinances’ Should Worry You

16 May 2020

Lockdown Has Killed At Least 516 Indians

15 May 2020

Flawed Covid-19 Database Used To Ease Lockdown

15 May 2020

Want To Go Back To Work? Download Aarogya Setu

14 May 2020

Cases Surged In Lockdown As Govt Ignored Experts

14 May 2020

Why India’s Police Consider The Use of Violence Normal

13 May 2020

Despite Laws, Deluge Of Hunger In India's Capital

12 May 2020

Laws Broken, Forest Hacked To Widen Highway

11 May 2020

Indian Evacuation Begins But Many Can't Pay Fare

07 May 2020

Workers Losing Battle To Claim Lockdown Wages

06 May 2020

Govt’s Arguments In SC J&K 4G Case Not Backed By Fact

04 May 2020

As Covid-19 Spreads In Jails, Police Stuff Prisons

04 May 2020

The National Scheme That Should Have Fed Migrants

02 May 2020

India Is Ripping Apart Its Environment For Business

02 May 2020

A Kashmiri in Bareilly Jail & Other True Stories

01 May 2020

Surveillance Without Safeguards In The Pandemic

30 Apr 2020

As Statehood Ended, So Did Hopes Of Dead Teen’s Dad

29 Apr 2020

Lockdown Spurs Manipur Govt's War On Free Speech

27 Apr 2020

Frustration In National Covid-19 Task Force

24 Apr 2020

Govt Knew Lockdown Would Delay, Not Control Pandemic

23 Apr 2020

It Just Got More Dangerous To Be A Journalist in J&K

22 Apr 2020

How the UAPA Repackages Ideas As Crimes

21 Apr 2020

How India’s Government Set Off A Spiral Of Islamophobia

20 Apr 2020

A Court Steps In For A Covid-Hit Community

10 Apr 2020

'I Haven't Even Got A 2-Min Call From My Jailed Mother'

09 Apr 2020

India Hit By Domestic-Violence Pandemic

07 Apr 2020

‘Gross Privacy Violations:’ India’s Quarantine Lists

06 Apr 2020

India Widens Media Curbs In Covid-19 Pandemic

03 Apr 2020

It Took A Village To Rescue This Woman From Detention

02 Apr 2020

Coronavirus And The Constitution

30 Mar 2020

Death Of Privacy In The Time Of Pandemic

29 Mar 2020

“I Am A Friend Of Coronavirus”: UP Police Names & Shames Again

28 Mar 2020

Trump’s Drug Advisory Should Worry India

27 Mar 2020

Amulya And Ardra, The Rebel And The Poet

26 Mar 2020

Guilty, Even If Proven Innocent: UP’s New Law

23 Mar 2020

SC’s Call On Women Officers In Navy Goes A Step Further

20 Mar 2020

If Verdicts Favour Govt, Judges Can Get Top Jobs: Study

20 Mar 2020

SC's 2019 Death Penalty Record Is Not Popular View

20 Mar 2020

How Law Was Used To Lock Up 3,000 Indians In 1962

19 Mar 2020

Court Grants Bail To Man Charged With Sedition

18 Mar 2020

‘The Nirbhaya Case Has Coarsened Us All’

18 Mar 2020

A 123-Year-Old Epidemics Law Can’t Fight COVID-19

17 Mar 2020

As UP Hoardings Stay, Those ‘Shamed’ Fear For Lives

12 Mar 2020

UP Muslims Are Signing Good-Behaviour Bonds

12 Mar 2020

Slaughter Laws, Vigilantism Hit India's Cattle Economy

10 Mar 2020

Kashmiri Women On How The Net Ban Killed Business

07 Mar 2020

How Nazbunissa, 27, Fought A Sedition Charge

05 Mar 2020

Sexism Keeps Women Out Of Combat Roles In The Army

05 Mar 2020

A Lawyer's Guide To Sustaining Protests

03 Mar 2020

7 Things Govt Could Have Done To Stop the Delhi Riots

02 Mar 2020

The Threat To You From Another National Register

29 Feb 2020

PM Modi After Delhi 2020, CM Modi After Gujarat 2002

28 Feb 2020

Why Dr Kafeel Khan Is Not A Threat To National Security

27 Feb 2020

Ignoring Objections, India Finalises New Coastal Law

26 Feb 2020

Bhagwat Is Wrong On Women And Divorce

24 Feb 2020

First Arrests In Kashmir On Use Of Social Media

20 Feb 2020

Why 2 Courts Stopped Police From Using A Colonial Law

20 Feb 2020

Why The SC Saluted These Women Army Officers

18 Feb 2020

How 11 Women Officers Made Army History

18 Feb 2020

Excluding Women From Top Army Jobs is Illegal: SC

18 Feb 2020

The CAA Is Not A Refugee Protection Law

17 Feb 2020

UP Police Tortured 41 Minors: New Report

14 Feb 2020

Why Women Are Not Joining Kerala’s Police

14 Feb 2020

Dissent And The New Rules Of Speaking Up

14 Feb 2020

The Special Law That India Reserves For J&K

13 Feb 2020

A Teen’s Stalking Trauma And What It Says About Us

11 Feb 2020

Hate Crime Down 72% After Decadal Peak in 2018

10 Feb 2020

Why Assam’s First Trans Judge Is Unhappy

05 Feb 2020

74 Sedition Charges, But Convictions Unlikely

05 Feb 2020