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Ditsa Bhattacharya
Annual Democratic Index: India Ranks 51, Worst Performance Ever
23 Jan 2020
The report stated, “The biggest democracy in the world, India, dropped 10 places in the Democracy Index’s global ranking, to 51st place. India’s overall score fell from 7.23 in 2018 to 6.90 in 2019.…
Sreedeep
Why JNU Is Being Disciplined and Punished
19 Jan 2020
The state is normalising everyday violence through internal surgical strikes on the ideological ‘Other’.
Newsclick Team
Secularism in India: Talk by Prof Akeel Bilgrami
15 Jan 2020
As a part of the Annual Lecture by Centre for Policy Analysis, Professor Akeel Bilgrami spoke about the idea of secularism in India and its historical meaning.
Shakuntala Rao
Overused Section 144 Reveals Frailty of India’s Democracy
05 Jan 2020
Forget CAA/NRC critique, Indian government resents any peaceful protest.
Peoples Dispatch
Five Activists Arrested in Police Raid in Swaziland Have Been Released
26 Dec 2019
According to police, the documents calling for democracy that were confiscated in the raids may be considered treasonous
Subodh Varma
CAA Protests: India Gets a Taste of RSS-Run State
17 Dec 2019
Divisive policies and laws, open hostility towards minorities, instant and shocking repression of dissent, and lies, are the hallmark of this RSS-run government.
Rashme Sehgal
Mr Shah, Show Us Numbers of Refugees Seeking Citizenship: Mridula Mukherjee
16 Dec 2019
Mridula Mukherjee, noted historian, talks about the fallout of the amended citizenship law. She says, “The present government has no experience of the northeast. They have never handled such a…
Ajay Gudavarthy
Dissent-in-Waiting: What India’s Vacant Streets Symbolise
03 Dec 2019
A national movement is surely in order, just not at hand.
Newsclick Team
Are Attempts to Kill Gandhi Continuing?
09 Sep 2019
Supreme Court judge Deepak Gupta in a recent speech said that in a country like India, atheists, agnostics and believers all have the right to freedom of expression.
Newsclick Report
Absence of Dissent Will Turn Democracy into a Police State: Justice Deepak Gupta
09 Sep 2019
Criticism of judiciary, executive, legislature or armed forces does not amount to sedition, the Supreme Court judge said while delivering a speech at a lawyers’ workshop.