This is perhaps the first time any state representative has accepted that the Elgar Parishad event had no role to play in the violence. While three activists have been released on bail, and one died in custody, 12 continue to be jailed over this claim.

The new findings were released after Arsenal Consulting, a U.S.-based digital forensics firm, examined an electronic copy of Swamy’s computer, at the request of his lawyers.

Just as the British rulers used to refer to political prisoners during their rule as ‘terrorists,’ the rulers of today also call people imprisoned for opposing them ‘terrorists’.

For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.

Borders barely exist for these white bodies; rather, borders are lived as a hot summer inconvenience of queues at airport security. But for the dark bodies carrying their Global South passports, the Mediterranean is a humiliating border.

Anyone engaging seriously with Teltumbde’s work will know his beliefs are antithetical to the crimes he is being accused of.

India will have to respond by increasing interest rates further sooner rather than later. Higher U.S. interest rates make global capital abandon other countries and rush to American bonds whose market yields have doubled at the shorter end.

The evidence of malware use has now come in from multiple studies, but the accused remain in jail and the trial is yet to begin.

The DMK’s chief’s speech at the CPI(M)’s congress has reflected the assonance between communist and Dravidian politics.

The reason the party’s cartoon has evoked horror is because we have seen this sort of singular obsession with a targeted religious minority before and know where it leads.

Iklakh Rahim Shaikh, who spent time with the Jesuit priest in Taloja jail, says while “VIP prisoners” get access to all kinds of facilities, prisoners like Swamy are denied even the most basic rights.

The DYFI took on the Sangh Parivar’s attempts to polarise people with misinformation on halal by serving beef, pork, chicken and mutton in most towns of the state.

Opposition leaders have lashed out at the police’s ‘highhanded’ behaviour.

From Ajmer to Indore, recent incidents show that the continuing hate-mongering by right-wing forces is having a direct impact.

In complete contrast to its founding ideals, the WHO is now captured by wealthy countries and corporations at the cost of millions of poor globally.

Umberto Eco’s inventory of proto-fascist characteristics comprised 14 elements. It will not be difficult for us to recognise the variant of many of these in Narendra Modi’s New India.

The Indian state today seems to proclaim that everything in the country is in danger–whether it is religion, culture, communal harmony or public peace and tranquillity.

An invoice for advance payment of $45 million raised by the offshore partner of Bharat Biotech is certain to become the reason for the impending cancellation of the contract.

The signatories, including Noam Chomsky and Olga Tokarczuk, sought that the temporary order to release prisoners in light of COVID-19 be applied to these political prisoners as well.

Akin to how characters in Dante’s poem paid for their sins in hell, Indians are paying with their lives during a pandemic for electing a government that is utterly incompetent and bigoted.