Remember when Yakub Memon’s mercy petition was rejected by the Supreme Court on 21 July 2015? Human rights activists, secularists and liberals started chest beating on how nobody has the right ...
The 1st of May has, for 57 years, facilitated unbridled celebrations about belonging to Maharashtra. Yet, it has also seen the importance of a group that not only facilitated the existence ...
The year was 1966, April 18 and Meherunissa Dalwai was 35 years old, pregnant with her second child when she marched along with her husband Hamid Dalwai and six other women ...
The past few months including the pre UP and post UP elections have revoked an old debate, gender justice for Muslim women due to archaic Mohammedan Personal Law in general and ...
23rd January 1926, Saturday. India was under British rule, Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad had gone incognito. Masterda Surjya Kumar Sen was under imprisonment, while the Kakori Conspiracy trials were ...
Thomas Paine, philosopher and one of the United States’ founding fathers once wrote: “One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves ...
For a movement that was almost eradicated four decades ago, Naxalism managing to hold a place in Indian textbooks is nothing short of an achievement, especially considering it was formulated based ...
The recent Supreme Court ruling on September 6th 2016 for the release of 15000 cusecs of Cauvery River water to Tamil Nadu has triggered the century old water sharing dispute between ...
Bihar became the fourth Indian state after Gujarat, Nagaland and Manipur (some parts) to enforce prohibition in India from April 2016. It’s a different matter that Nitish Kumar and Co had ...
Shani Shingnapur Temple Case: What the Court said? Women are not allowed to climb the platform of Shani Shingnapur temple on which the rock idol of Shani is installed. Senior advocate ...
The then Vice President of India and a great scholar Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, immediately after the appalling custodial death of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee who was very close to him, had ...
In the past couple of decades, India has been rocked by communal disturbances which have claimed the lives of people from different religious communities. While disturbances between religious minorities are not ...
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