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Kalpana Kannabiran
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‘Every idea is an incitement’: Where is the line between democratic protest and sedition?
Recounting histories of courtcraft and judicial understanding on liberty for dissenters and freedom of expression.
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Bilkis Bano’s lonely battle for justice is a heartfelt cry for India to resurrect its secular values
The remission granted to men convicted of gangrape and mass murder is our defeat. It is our collective responsibility to resoundingly say ‘no more of this’.
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The fight to free pregnant student activist Safoora Zargar is a battle for India’s very soul
The legitimacy of constitutional courts is imperilled by their tacit deference to indefensible state action.
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Why has the West always been threatened by female nudity?
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What Rajasthan’s right to health law promises – and where it falls short
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UP man who rescued sarus crane booked under Wildlife Protection Act
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EPFO investments in two Adani companies continue despite rout in markets, reports ‘The Hindu’
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Opinion: Nandita Das’s ‘Zwigato’ is luminous in its humanism
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To accuse activist Harsh Mander of hate speech is to fall prey to the barbarity of false equivalence
Is this the price we pay for dissent?
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Through the clouds of protest, sightings of hope
The young, the women of Shaheen Bagh, the people of Kashmir are schooling us all about what the Constitution tells us about who we are and what we should be.
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Babri Masjid revisited: No, we cannot just decide that it’s done and dusted and move on
We must not fall into the trap of disaggregating harms and gains by religious identity.
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Watch: Women in saris play football in a tournament in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
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Watch: Protestors storm Israeli PM’s home, break barriers, after Netanyahu plans judicial changes
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Watch: IPS officer swims against the current from Gateway of India to Elephanta Caves
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Pension protests in France: Diners eat at restaurants as fires rage on the streets
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Innocent (1948-2023): Five memorable scenes featuring the actor (and former MP) from Kerala
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Humiliation, suffering and impunity: Questions before India as a constitutional democracy
For any discussion on the meanings of justice in the country today, it is Kashmir that provides the context.
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Opinion: Supreme Court’s refusal to quash FIR against Anand Teltumbde damages the right to dissent
Slowly but surely the Indian state has shifted the burden of proof: we are all guilty until we prove we are innocent. Teltumbde stands for every one of us.
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