Shaheen Bagh, the inhumanity of migrants trudging home, activists being jailed. The significance of human rights has perhaps never been more pronounced.
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For Black lives in the US and Dalit lives in India, what needs to change is not only unjust laws, but the...
Name-calling, intimidation and ham-fisted use of state repression—India is under siege from a few driving...
The global parameters of human rights, based on Western concepts, do not fit in the Indian context.
What does fearlessness have to do with democratic citizenship—and the formal rights entailed in it? A...
A smorgasbord of rights violations is aided by the dysfunctionality of legislatures. Dispiritingly, the...
What was supposed to be India’s watchdog against rights violations has turned into what critics call a...
Less knocks on NHRC’s door while violations keep rising are a wake-up call. It must get back to keeping...
Rights activists in jail on various charges under the UAPA continue their fight for justice.
Court rulings in cases of illegal detentions raise questions about the judiciary’s failure to uphold rights...
A disabled doctor fighting for wages, an interfaith couple marrying against parents’ wishes, two lovers...
The long solitudes of 2020 have given everyone occasion to “grow tired of prisons” and see the only hope in...
Conferring an abstract set of ‘rights’ on Planet Earth, at the cost of the poorest humans, is a new elite...
Human rights? Gender, especially when overlaid with caste, shows us that half the world is in permanent...
There is no inherent tension between national security and human rights in the minds of soldiers. The debate...
Journalist and activist Makepeace Sitihou asks when it comes to the North East, whose rights is it anyway?
Citizens must take active role in combating localised sources of air pollution. Examples from Mumbai show that every effort is...
India may eventually regain its No. 5 rank among world economies. But the bounce-back won’t be risk-free.
