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Ambedkar's sadness that caste count was excluded in 1951 caste census is reflected in the half-hearted manner of conducting caste count in 2026 census by dispensing with drop down menu of castes

The victims of the 2024 Bangladesh violence deserve genuine accountability. But the proceedings against Sheikh Hasina raise cumulative concerns about the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunals constitutional foundation, judicial independence, evidentiary scrutiny and appellate safeguards. India must note that its refusal to extradite need not mean abandonment of accountability.

The ex-Bangladesh PMs return following a death sentence imposed in absentia brings renewed attention to the International Crimes Tribunals troubled record on fair trial guarantees, retrospective criminalization and capital punishment, while raising difficult questions for India over extradition.

The Sessions Courts order, which conflates political solidarity with criminal intent, denies anticipatory bail to two TISS students as it treats slogans demanding the release of undertrials Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, and homage paid to the late Professor G.N. Saibaba, as grounds for suspicion.

Every year, NIRF, India's premier university ranking system under the Education Ministry, publishes a list that students trust and institutions build their reputations around. An RTI based investigation by The Leaflet on Indias largest minority varsity now shows that it misrepresented data and NIRF simply accepted it on face value.

The conflation of affirmative action and anti-atrocity law subjects persons of Dalit lineage exercising religious-freedom to a constitutional paradox and denies them the fundamental promise of social dignity

The new Amendment turns states plenary taxing powers over minerals into a licence granted at the Centres discretion, setting up a serious constitutional challenge and dealing a fresh blow to fiscal federalism.

Concluding a flip flop of conflicting coordinate bench decisions, the Vanashakti III judgment struck down the office memorandum permitting ex-post facto breaches of environmental law. Read carefully though, it favours regularisation, providing an intricate blueprint for it.

As India marks its 80th Independence Day, a disabled academic reflects on how constitutional silence, judicial charity, and political apathy has kept disabled and transgender lives outside the promise of Swaraj.

Nehru told a burning country that it had kept a tryst. A tryst has two parties, and we have never once been careful about naming the second.

Ambedkar argued once that every act of independent thinking puts the stable world in peril. The Gen-Z protests leading up to Indias 80th independence day have certainly rattled the stable world of the autocrats, who for long have distorted the ideal of swaraj.

An insult meant to mock unemployed youth instead became the Gen Z protests unlikely banner and along the way, revealed something the Constitution asked of us decades ago: not just liberty and equality, but the harder, gentler work of fraternity.

Eighty years after Independence, the fight against exam-system collapse, bulldozer raj and communal politics is a continuation of the freedom struggle itself.