On August 5, 2019 the Union Home Minister introduced and the President of India issued two statutory resolutions to render Article 370 and 35A inoperative [1]. On the same day, the Bill for Jammu and Continue reading Kashmir – Final Solution?
The last two months, following a massive electoral victory clinched by the RSS-BJP, have seen a spate of national policies that have paved the way for large-scale human rights violations. The recent decision Continue reading National Population Register – First Step Towards a Pan-Indian NRC
Violence against women has been an intractable weapon of mass terrorization deployed at conflict zones all over the world. Indian administered Kashmir where the security personnel to civilian ratio stands at 70:1000 is in no way an Continue reading Violence Against Women in Kashmir – Wounds that Never Heal
Kolkata Forum for IT Employees – FITE announces its application for the registration of trade union in IT, ITES, BPO and KPO industries for the first time in West Bengal. Plan to register for a trade union on West Bengal has been Continue reading Press Release: Trade Union in IT Industry in Kolkata
It will not be an exaggeration if we say that India is the sole country in the whole world where, at present, the lives of cows are more secured than the lives of common people, especially who belong to the marginalized communities. Continue reading Cow Vigilantism and the Politics of ‘Cow Protection’
‘The war between faith and reason has existed since ancient times’ – that’s how the voiceover of ‘Vivek (Reason)’, the hard hitting documentary, starts by summing up the mood of the movie in entirety. This masterpiece by veteran Continue reading Vivek (Reason) – Movie Review
On February, 2019, a 560-page report titled ‘Torture: Indian State’s Instrument of Control in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir’ was published jointly by the Srinagar-based ‘Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society’ (JKCCS) Continue reading Institutionalized Infliction of Torture by Security Forces in Kashmir: Rights Groups’ Report
Country-wide police crackdowns are being carried on the social activists who are struggling to Continue reading Condemn the Police Atrocities on the Activists and Villagers in Niyamgiri
Recently, the Supreme Court of India issued one order which has the potential to evict more than Continue reading Attack on Forest Rights Act 2006
In November 2017, UP chief minister Adityanath has announced that the BJP government had Continue reading Adityanath’s Encounter Raj
The Supreme Court of India, in its final verdict on Aadhaar Act 2016, upheld the constitutional validity of it, but put Continue reading Aadhar Verdict – Seizing the Remaining Rights
A recent hash-tag trend in twitter explains the viciousness of the undeclared emergency, which is Continue reading The State That Does Not Love Questions
The Pathalgadi movement is spreading like fire in the heartland of India – the abode of the adivasis Continue reading Patthalgadi Movement: The Struggle to Protect ‘Jal-Jangal-Zameen’
