It’s Time to Put an End to Maharashtra’s Love Affair with the Law of Sedition
Being thin-skinned is our birthright and we shall have it: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the former’s swearing-in ceremony in November 2014. Credit:...
View ArticleArrest ‘Anti India Elements’ Says Rajnath, So Police Pin ‘Sedition’ on JNUSU...
An event where students chanted slogans against Afzal Guru’s hanging has quickly escalated into a political controversy beyond the campus, with the students’ union president being arrested for sedition...
View ArticleGoon’s Justice, Mob’s Democracy
We have just witnessed a week of shame for “Mother India”, when democracy was reduced to rubble and the rule of law was left gasping for breath Lawyers beat an effigy of Kanhaiya Kumar with shoes on...
View ArticleAfter Pellets, Kashmir Police Turn to Nocturnal Raids and Mass Arrests
The authorities are whisking away people in overnight raids, using draconian preventive detention powers even against human rights activists An Indian policeman pulls concertina wire to lay a barricade...
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