Ashfaque EJ

Central University of Kerala vice-chancellor’s participation in a leadership orientation program, organised by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, has triggered a controversy in the university.

Bindhu Ammini, a lawyer and Dalit activist, was one among the few women who dared to challenge Kerala’s Hindutva conscience by entering Sabarimala temple in 2019 following the Supreme Court’s historic verdict.

Students and citizen collectives in Delhi gathered at the Press Club of India on Wednesday to recount the police brutality and to commemorate the incarcerated anti- CAA- NRC protesters as December 15 2021 marks the second anniversary of the police crackdown on students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh University during the anti- CAA- NRC protest.

In a controversial move, Kerala Police informed a local court in a remand report that it is speculating 'terrorist links' of the Muslim leaders of Congress party who protested demanding state accountability on the suicide of a 21-year-old Mofiya Parveen allegedly after she complained of domestic violence at the hands of her husband.

Deepa P. Mohanan, a Dalit research scholar at Kerala’s Mahatma Gandhi University has been alleging that she was facing caste discrimination from her Ph.D. Guide Dr. Nandakumar Kalarikkal, university authorities, and ruling CPIM leaders for the last 10 years.

"An unwritten social boycott existed against us. People stopped talking to us. Nobody is visiting my home. In tea shops, grocery shops wherever I go, I feel boycotted," says Unnikrishnan, father of a POCSO offence survivor, who hails from Kattoor village in Kerala’s Thrissur district.