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February 15, 2021 2018 was the year when Greta Thunberg took the world by storm. The Swedish climate change activist, then 15 years old, started Fridays for Future, which calls itself as “a global people’s movement for climate justice.” In India, Disha Ravi, a college student at Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru, plunged in. She started Fridays for Future India, coordinating strikes in different areas in the city every Friday, as she told Citizen Matters in 2019. Her motivation to become a climate activist stemmed from watching her grandparents, who are farmers, struggle with the eff...

April 6, 2021 last updated 14:1 ET A woman carries firewood on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Feb. 1, 2019 (AP photo by Anupam Nath). Women Will Bear the Brunt of India’s New Farm Laws For over two months, hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers have been conducting sustained sit-ins on the outskirts of New Delhi. Undeterred by COVID-19 or violent police crackdowns, and despite the cold northern Indian winter, the protesters are demanding the repeal of controversial new farm laws that they say harm their livelihoods. The sit-ins have been largely peaceful, t...

Police in 3 States File Sedition Case Against Tharoor, Journalists for Tweets on Farmers' Rally The Editor's Guild of India described the cases as an "attempt to intimidate, harass, browbeat, and stifle the media". Shashi Tharoor, Rajdeep Sardesai and Mrinal Pande. Photo: PTI and Twitter Rights29/Jan/2021 New Delhi: A total of three sedition cases have been filed across three BJP-ruled states against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, India Today journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, National Herald’s senior consulting editor Mrinal Pande, Qaumi Awaz editor Zafar Agha, The The Caravan editor Anant N...

Farm union leaders said they would now consider calling off protests in response to the move by the Indian government

Why is the BJP Being So Mean to Kapil Gujjar, the Shooter of Shaheen Bagh? Kapil decoded the cryptic Islamophobia in Modi's 'kapdon se pehchanon' message with laser sharp precision. Perhaps he was even more serious about the request made by Amit Shah to give an electric shock to Shaheen Bagh. Kapil Gujjar joined joined the BJP, only to be thrown out less than two hours later. Photo courtesy: Twitter/@scribe_prashant Politics08/Jan/2021 How would you feel if you’re thrown out of class for laboriously doing your homework on time? How can a promising pupil who is only diligently following t...