While Lakhimpur Kheri massacre accused Ashish Mishra and Muslim genocide advocate Yati Narsinghanand can get bail, activists rot behind bars.
The NIA’s draft chargesheet against Elgar Parishad accused after three years of most of their arrests, not only is gibberish but looks like a BJP pamphlet.
Maharashtra BJP leader Narayan Rane’s arrest over Uddhav Thackeray slap row showed the saffron party’s hypocrisy once more on the issue of state repression.
Amitabh Kant’s “too much democracy” ranting has made him famous, our country’s democracy is realised when there is a power cut.
Rather than criticising the Supreme Court’s bail to Goswami, why it’s important to demand the release of all falsely-implicated undertrials?
The killing of Reina Mae Nasino’s baby girl by Duterte’s fascist regime isn’t going to be the last one unless the dictator is overthrown soon
Father Stan Swamy’s arrest by the NIA again proved that the Modi regime is relentless in its pursuit against the democratic voices in India.
By arresting Umar Khalid under the UAPA in the “Delhi riots” case, the Delhi Police has displayed the nadir it has stooped to.
The state repression exhibited by the arrest of two Pinjra Tod activists, Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, exemplifies the Modi regime’s fear.
With the passage of the UAPA Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha, the Modi regime is all set to curtail the leftover democratic rights of the people.
After one year of the arrest of five activists for the Bhima Koregaon violence, the Modi regime continues police repression to suppress critical voices.
The physical distance between Mamata Banerjee’s Nabanna in Howrah, West Bengal and the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi, where Narendra Modi is perched, is around 1,500 km. Due to Mamata Banerjee’s obstinate opposition towards Narendra Modi’s rule and his agendas, it’s often said in the corporate-controlled mainstream media that they are staunch political enemies … Read more
Ever since the Pune Police arrested five activist-intellectuals: Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bhardwaj and Varavara Rao, and accused them of being “Urban Naxals” conspiring against the Modi regime, the term -“Urban Naxal”- suddenly became a popular political identity from slur, used so far by demagogues of the ruling Hindutva fascist bloc to … Read more
The “Urban Naxal” threat just got a new lease of life outside the Twitter timeline of flop film director and certified Modi bootlicker Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday, 28 August, when the Pune Police conducted simultaneous raids at nine locations targeting prominent human rights, Dalit and Adivasi activists and left-leaning intellectuals. Homes of Vernon Gonsalves – … Read more
The talk of the town is dissent – the right to dissent and an undeclared emergency reigning in India’s political landscape, as the Modi regime has unleashed state repression on political dissenters, human rights activists, advocates and intellectuals who’ve refused obeisance towards it. Using a corporate media-sponsored paranoia over “Urban Naxals”, the Modi regime is … Read more
A nationwide outrage is taking place over the arrest of five civil rights activists in Maharashtra and Delhi, to combat which the Pune Police had to invent the dubious theory of an assassination plot prepared by these people in connivance with the Maoists to kill Narendra Modi. Though the loosely plotted story is busted by … Read more
The Maharashtra Police have released two purported letters through which, they allege, the Maoists communicated with the arrested civil rights activist Rona Wilson. These letters are prima-facie evidence against Rona Wilson, which the police will use in the court. But even before the court, they’ve shown these precious catches and sensitive information to the press, … Read more
The Operation Green Hunt reached the urban landscape long ago, and in tandem with the brutal war waged against the poor tribal people of the mineral-rich zones of India, the oppressive state machinery has launched a concerted attack on those voices that echo support for the cause of the marginalised and oppressed people, who are … Read more