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Why Cong must lead the charge on abolishing sedition law April 11, 2021, 7:28 AM IST Dear Rahul Your recent statement that “democracy is dead” created the expected hullabaloo. Not surprisingly, the BJP ridiculed your justifiable solicitude at India’s slipping global image of becoming an illiberal democracy. They trashed the US-based Freedom House report that said we were partly-free, and the Swedish V-Democratic Institute findings which said India was like an elected aut...

Excerpts: US State Dept Report Records Increasing Use of UAPA by Indian Government The report cites the conditions in which the incarcerations of a pregnant Safoora Zargar, and ageing activists Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj and Stan Swamy progressed. Illustration: The Wire Rights18 hours ago The US state department released the 2020 human rights report last week, accompanied by renewed rhetoric of putting emphasis on human rights at the heart of American diplomacy. From the India chapter, here ...

On Easter, Learning to Stand in the Tragic Gap We can either let the darkness have its way, or we can choose to stand in the gap, live in the light and lend our voices for truth, justice and freedom. Photo: Reuters Religion5 hours ago The decade of the 1980s had just begun. I was all of 13, and had just undergone a couple of major surgeries. Suffering from post-surgical anxiety and possibly even borderline depression, I struggled as a young adolescent. (Thankfully, my father was a psychologist ...

FOR: Academic freedom in India is not just in danger, it’s in a state of siege Supriya Chaudhuri, Professor Emerita, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Shortly before Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s widely publicised resignation from Ashoka University made academic freedom the subject of national debate, another event received less attention. This was the refusal of Errol D’Souza, director of IIM Ahmedabad, to allow the Ministry of Education (MoE) to review a PhD thesis approved by his institute. A Rajy...

Supriya Chaudhuri (FOR) Shortly before Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s widely publicised resignation from Ashoka University made academic freedom the subject of national debate, another event received less attention. This was the refusal of Errol D’Souza, director of IIM Ahmedabad, to allow the Ministry of Education (MoE) to review a PhD thesis approved by his institute. A Rajya Sabha MP had objected to the thesis’s description of the BJP. The MoE demanded a copy of the thesis last year, but D’So...

A Delhi court on Monday began sedition proceedings against former JNU students Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya five years after they became synonymous with dissent against the ruling BJP and their university captured the public imagination as the fulcrum of this resistance. By Monday the trio had aged beyond their years, with strands of white hair, and the shadow of the case had prevented them pursuing teaching careers despite their having earned PhDs. Kanhaiya is now a nat...

The BJPs Toolkit Is Not Working That Well Despite the BJP-RSSs repression tactics having a terrifying and chilling effect on the right to protest, two of Indias largest movements have taken shape since 2019. Farmers take part in a parade to support the farmers protesting at Delhi borders in Bengaluru, January 26, 2021. Photo: PTI/Shailendra Bhojak Rights16/Mar/2021 By now, it’s fairly obvious that the NDA government has a standard toolkit for dealing with what it regards as troublesome moveme...

JNU Sedition Case: Umar Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar, Other Accused Appear in Court While Khalid, Kumar and Anirban Bhattacharya already got bail in the case, the other seven accused were also granted bail on Monday, said news reports. Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya in JNU. Photo: PTI/Files Rights16/Mar/2021 New Delhi: The Patiala house court in Delhi on Monday heard proceedings in the 2016 sedition case against former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students Kanhaiya Kumar, U...

UPDATED: March 15, 2021 12:00 IST Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar are among the 10 individuals who have been accused in the JNU sedition case. Ten people accused in the 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) sedition case have been produced in Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Monday. Soon after, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Pankaj Sharma directed the Delhi Police to supply chargesheet and other case-related documents to Kanhaiya Kumar and all the other accused. Taking note of the char...