Sir — A committee appointed by the Jawaharlal Nehru University has asked Romila Thapar, the renowned historian and emeritus professor, to submit her CV so that it can “evaluate” her work. The ef...

Words, by their very nature, can be at once transparent and opaque. They may mean something quite different from what they appear to mean. The gap between the perceived meaning and the intended meanin...

An IIM alumnus accused in the Bhima-Koregaon conspiracy case has launched a signature campaign petitioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi to have the charges quashed against him after the Supreme Court ...

A sessions court in Pune on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of activist Gautam Navlakha in the Elgar Parishad case.The court also refused to extend protection from arrest given to him by t...

Twenty-one organisations working for the cause of social justice in the US, the UK, India, Canada and Japan have demanded immediate withdrawal of charges against civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Maharashtra government three more months to file the chargesheet in the Koregaon-Bhima case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, saying the accuse...

Pune police told Bombay High Court on Tuesday that they would not arrest activist Anand Teltumbde till February 12 midnight, even as the Dalit scholar termed the case a ploy to “humiliate” and “...

Pune police will seek help from the American agency FBI to retrieve data from a damaged hard disk seized from the home of Telugu poet Varavara Rao, who was arrested last year in the Bhima Koregaon cas...

Sedition is blossoming in India. Or so the state and Central governments would have people believe. The law against sedition was formulated by India’s imperial rulers to keep their subjects under co...

The sessions court in Pune on Thursday reserved its judgement till November 12 on the anticipatory bail plea filed by civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha in the Elgar Parishad case and asked the pol...