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"I Should Not Allow Myself to be Scared": Narendra Dabholkar on Facing Threats from Religious Organisations

In this extract from the first volume of the translation, titled 'The Case for Reason: Understanding the Anti-superstition Movement', Dabholkar recounts the pressures he faced from religious organisations, such as the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and Sanatan Sanstha as well as by members of the BJP and Shiv Sena. (From August 2018)

caravanmagazine.in/religion/na

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Live Law - Supreme Court's 'Illegal But Permissible' Jurisprudence

Supreme Court's 'Illegal But Permissible' Jurisprudence

A noticeable pattern can be seen in some of the recent decisions whereby the Supreme Court holds certain actions to be illegal but allows them to continue. The end result is that the relief becomes merely academic - a declaration of illegality with no real world consequence - and the wrongdoers get to reap the fruits of their wrongful actions. Manu Sebastian writes.

livelaw.in/articles/supreme-co

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BJP ‘tweaked’ rules to gift Dharavi to Adani

BJP government allegedly tweaked terms and conditions in the tendering process, and despite a break due to a change in government, managed to get back into power after engineering cracks in the Shiv Sena. Strangely, the Adani Group bagged the multi-crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project.

telanganatoday.com/bjp-tweaked

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Spike in anti-Muslim rallies since BJP retook India’s Maharashtra

The recent Ram Navami festival was the latest concerted attempt to ignite religious tensions in India’s richest state.

aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/7/sp

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‘Talking like an outlaw’: Opposition critcises Kiren Rijiju for his remark about retired judges

The law minister had said that some retired judges are part of an “anti-India gang’ and are trying to make the judiciary play the role of the Opposition party.

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Governors becoming part of politics to topple elected governments, says Supreme Court

Using strong words to express its “serious concern” over the active role being played by governors in state politics, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it is very disconcerting that they are becoming part of political processes to precipitate the fall of elected governments.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/in

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Eknath Shinde faction real Shiv Sena: Election Commission

In a 78-page order on the protracted battle for control of the organisation, the Commission allowed the Uddhav Thackeray faction to keep the "flaming torch" poll symbol.

thenewsminute.com/article/ekna

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Hundreds In Mumbai March Against 'Love Jihad', Demand Anti-Conversion Laws

Leaders and workers of right-wing outfits such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) marched in the rally.

ndtv.com/india-news/rss-bajran

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