How Government of Maharashtra is helping destroy Mumbai’s forest
Save Aarey Forest movement is a citizens initiative to fight deforestation in the rare urban forest in Maharashtra to make a carshed for the Mum
Contempt of Court
The Cantonment roads and vested interests in defence lands
Background- Cantonments & Military Stations in India Cantonments derive their name from Swiss Cantons, or districts and were set up by the British in India for entirely different reasons. When …
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Judge Loya and the politics of justice
A historic event has taken place in the Supreme Court of India. There will be no independent probe into Judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya’s death. This is one of the first …
A prominent builder filed a civil suit against my activist colleague Krish for publishing articles against the builder
A prominent builder filed a civil suit against my activist colleague Krish for publishing articles against the builder. Here’s what Krish says about the suit: Last weekend, I was served …
Anti-democracy guidelines on Section 124 IPC by Maharashtra government
When the Bombay High Court dropped the absurd sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, it ordered the Maharashtra government to issue guidelines to the police on how the sedition law …
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Yakub Menon even more strange – a case of Chinese whispers? #YakubMemon
At 1:52 this afternoon, Majid Memon, a journalist, wrote an article “Yakub Memon: Break the official omerta – In #Yakub Memon case, state displayed bad faith” about his perceptions about the case …
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Foreign hand in the IB Report?
India’s Sovereignty, Security and Freedom at risk- Is the IB being used by foreign corporations to take over India’s vital seed sector? The IB report has a special section on …
Supreme Court guidelines for natural sex
Considering today’s Supreme Court verdict on Section 377 that criminalizes “carnal acts against the order of nature”, there is a lot of confusion on what exactly is allowed and what …