Podcast: Are India’s anti-conversion laws a tool for harassment?
The Supreme Court needs to revisit its judgment that upheld legislation regulating religious conversion on grounds of public order, says SC lawyer Sanjay Hegde.

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India’s passport ranking drops to 148 among 199 countries
‘Dark chapter in federalism’, says CM Stalin as president withholds assent to Tamil Nadu’s NEET bill
What underpins India’s deep education inequality?
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April in nonfiction: Six new books about the complexities of the ever-evolving Indian experience
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Assam withdraws 28,000 cases pending in foreigners tribunals against Koch Rajbongshis