Chikkamagaluru Deputy Commissioner Meena Nagaraj has prohibited the movement and parking of vehicles between Hanumanthappa Circle and Azad Park (MG Road) in Chikkamagalur city on January 8 because of the Bhima Koregaon Vijayotsava to be held by pro-Dalit organisations. Hundreds of people are expected to take part in the celebrations on the day. To avoid … Read more
The SC directed activist Gautam Navlakha to deposit another ₹8 lakh as an expense for making available police personnel for his security while under house arrest in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. | file photo | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Supreme Court on Friday directed activist Gautam Navlakha, who is under house arrest … Read more
The government at the Centre is weakening the Indian state, creating disaffection among the people and eroding faith in the justice system and the integrity of institutions, by locking up public-spirited activists loved by the oppressed and the dispossessed on whose behalf they work, charging them with terrorism and refusing to proceed with prosecution, denying … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Nov 29, 2020) Letters from wife? Rejected. Sipper for Parkinson’s patient? Court hearing awaited. Warm clothes to deal with the capital’s chilly temperatures? Allowed but after a long wait. Many political prisoners in Maharashtra and Delhi has been struggling for access to basic necessities these last few months. Often, … Read more
When words fail, music speaks — so said Hans Christian Andersen. But, of course, he wrote fairy tales, not stories of torture, pain and pleasure derived from pain. What music can articulate the horror that befell the 20-year old Dalit girl from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, who was raped by several men, had her spine broken … Read more
Vikas Dubey was a goon, killer, in 2001, of a minister inside a police station when BJP ruled the state, criminal overlord of a small chunk of Kanpur district, politician-cum-muscleman, killer of eight policemen recently, fugitive and victim of an Uttar Pradesh police ‘encounter’. More pertinently, in the light of public approbation of his killing … Read more