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The Law is
Casteist

by Disha Wadekar and
Nikita Sonavane

Lawyers Disha Wadekar and Nikita Sonavane give a deep and searing insight into their personal and intellectual understanding of the casteist bias inherent in the Indian legal system.

Santvana Kumar

Caste and Gender: A Systemic Obliteration of Justice

Your Rainbow Doesn't Hide Your Casteism

Vqueeram Aditya Sahai
and Akhil Kang

We Must Call It What It Is: Caste Based Violence

Jyotsna Siddharth

The historic contours of the 2020 US Presidential election are not something we take lightly. Yet, it is our experience as residents of this historic American city, Philadelphia – one whose history is defined by violence and injustice against its inhabitants and those outside its borders – that local, grassroots efforts and sustained organising are the only path toward an equitable future in this country.

Biden-Harris Are Not The Real Winners

by Tausif Noor and Chip Sinton

The Prison Between MOUNTAINS

Photos by Masrat Zahra
Text by Skye Arundhati Thomas

As we mark one year since the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A we must reckon with how we have failed Kashmir.

Text by Durgesh Solanki

in collaboration with Rajyashri Goody

External Independence

Internal slavery

While the Indian Constitution formally outlaws untouchability and its practice, caste continues to be a determining feature of independent India. Caste is everywhere.

Law

Sankul Sonawane

NEP 2020: Towards An Old Horizon

Bans, Boycotts and BORDERS

Dev Lewis

Felt Delhi Was No Longer My City

Abhimanyu Hazarika

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Kashmir is not just densely occupied. It is thoroughly occupied. It is intricately occupied. It is omnipresently occupied. It is repeatedly occupied.

by Tabish Rafiq Mir

Drugs and addiction are fundamentally intertwined, and yet the word ‘addiction’ does not appear in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (1985) of India

by Ronny Sen

What We Get Wrong About Drug Abuse

Culture

Mayukh Sen

Fight and

FLIGHT

The Audacity to
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Nishant Kauntia

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Joshua Muyiwa

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Modi Is Making Dissent in India a Crime

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John Hersey and the Art of Fact

NICHOLAS LEMANN for THE NEW YORKER

The Use of Free Speech in Society

ASAD HAIDER for VERSO

Apartheid in a Fancy Dress

SURAJ YENGDE for THE BAFFLER

Are people in J&K citizens or subjects?

SUHRITH PARTHASARTHY, GAUTAM BHATIA for THE HINDU

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