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For the longest time, I believed I would never have a more impactful cinema watching experience than Sairat. I watched it multiple times as a late teen and each...

Baba Budangiri Dargah or Dattatreya Peetha in Chickmagalur of Karnataka popularly referred to as Ayodhya of the South is in the news again. Recently, remarks by Hindu nationalist bloc...

“A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect” - W. E. B. Du Bois Since India's independence in 1947, the government has consistently pursued policies designed to...

On the last week of December, eight young Muslim students in Government Pre-University College in Udupi district of Karnataka had barred from entering the classroom wearing Hijab has brewed...

Ahead of UP State Assembly elections, Maktoob speaks to Sabbaq on law enforcement, judiciary and the spiking lawlessness in the state.

On 17 January, 19-year-old Sameer Shahpur, from Nargund, Gadag district of Karnataka, picked his friend Shamsheer Khan on his way to return home, hesitant to travel alone due to...

For Safoora Zargar, a Muslim student leader, hardly a day goes by​ without online abuse from India's right-wing trolls for her dissent against Modi's Hindutva regime. But none of it...

Holding tightly her two months old baby wrapped in a blanket, Rozi Jan is sitting idle on the remnants of her ransacked house in the Upper Paloura area of Roop Nagar in Jammu.

On 17th January 2016, Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research scholar at the University of Hyderabad had to end his life after being unjustly suspended. Already brewing with anger and...

Intimidation and subsequent arrest of Kashmiri journalist Sajad Gul would not have surprised many in Kashmir and those acquainted with Kashmir. Reporting the truth has always been a daunting...

The DNA Profiling Bill (officially known as the DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2019) is yet another draconian legislation in the making, which has urgent implications on questions of justice, privacy, and rule of law in India.

Jamlo (Jeeta Madkam) was 12 years old. Sometime in February, she went to work in the chilli fields of Telangana. On April 18, after walking for three days with other labourers trying to return home during the lockdown, Jamlo died.