Urban Naxal
RSS circulates booklet targeting ‘Urban Naxals’
CIC
Modi 2's RTI Bill seeks to Control Salaries and Tenure of Information Commissioners
MGNREGA
9-Hr House Debate on Rural Dev, MGNREGA reveals GOI Contempt for Worker, Underprivileged: Forum
Protection of Human Rights Act
Amendments to the PHRA (Protection of HR ACT) without Consultation: Civil Society
Indian economy
Why crib? 4.5% is far better than pre-1980 'Hindu rate of growth': Subramanian replies

POST POLL ANALYSIS

Kunal Purohit
WhatsApp sculpted Modi’s cult : Kunal Purohit
Teesta Setalvad
Today a courier package can be tracked electronically but not EVM machines : Teesta Setalvad
West bengal Poll
WB post poll analysis: Saffron fades as one heads South along the Bangladesh border

FOCUS

As SC Hearing Nears, Adivasis Recall Evictions That Led To Forest Law
Raja Dhale
Raja Dhale: A Giant Has Gone
Slavery Act
Modern Slavery Act is having unintended consequences for women’s freedom in Sri Lanka

THEMES

Attack on Minorities
Dalits, Muslims targeted across India: Will Modi walk the talk on inclusion and diversity?
Dalits, Muslims targeted across India
shivaji
Shivaji in ‘secular’ Maharashtra
Exploring the many dimensions of Shivaji’s rise and rule

8
Jun
SAHMAT
Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust and Westland Publications invite you to the release of MEMORY IN THE AGE OF amnesia by Saeed Akhtar Mirza The author will be in conversation with Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor, The Wire Seema Mustafa, Editor-in-Chief, The Citizen

ALL STORIES

Forest Rights
As SC Hearing Nears, Adivasis Recall Evictions That Led To Forest Law
22 Jul 2019
New Delhi: On the morning of June 10, 2002, more than 1,000 paramilitary personnel, police and forest officials descended upon Wan nu Phukripara, a forest hamlet in eastern Assam’s Sonitpur district. The officials and hired workers burnt down houses...
Urban naxals
RSS circulates booklet targeting ‘Urban Naxals’
22 Jul 2019
A common characteristic of right wing supremacists in India appears to be their extremely limited and rather vapid imagination. This is best illustrated in a booklet published by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The booklet is an out and out...
Indian Economy
Why crib? 4.5% is far better than pre-1980 'Hindu rate of growth': Subramanian replies
22 Jul 2019
Even as sticking to his original argument that India's gross domestic product (GDP) since 2011-12 has been overestimated by 2.5%, renowned economist Arvind Subramanian has said in a fresh paper that his estimate of post-2011-12 growth rate at...
Social Reform,
Social Reform Key to Block BJP: Kerala
20 Jul 2019
The rout in the Lok Sabha polls need not mark the demise of the Left in Kerala. If the Left were to draw on the power of its historical social reform movement that was rooted in a civilisational ethos, it can hold its ground against the BJP in the...
Foreign tribunals
Section 9 Foreigners Act, 1946 and the Dilemmas of Citizenship, in Assam
20 Jul 2019
Despite the passage of seven decades since the independence of the country, the debate on citizenship is far from over. The recent engagement with the construction of the National Register of Citizens(NRC) in the state of Assam, has again opened the...