Besides dealing with a hostile government and Meitei civil society organisations, Kuki Zo women activists working on the ground have also had to struggle with interferences and diktats from male-led tribal bodies, which continue to be patriarchal at its outset.

The prime minister's silence on the conflict in Manipur was most painfully felt by the women who were paraded naked by a mob. They did not receive any support from his party’s government in the state despite filing a police complaint in May.

Though it ate into the Congress’s Muslim votes, the AIUDF's popularity has declined recently. It won just 26 seats in the 2018 Panchayat elections.

Environmental activists have taken the Ejei river case to the National Green Tribunal, but it appears to be going nowhere.

Since 2017, the residents have protested against the poor compensation that they have received for their farmland and their subsequent displacement from their homes.

In Meghalaya and Assam, as mine workers die in subhuman working conditions, their families enter arduous struggles to secure their promised compensation.

Attempts to silence activists and journalists on trumped up charges of ‘waging war against the state’ aren't exactly new.

At the third conclave of the North East Democratic Alliance, even as regional partners shared the dais with the top brass of the BJP, differences on issues such as Citizenship Amendment Bill remain far from resolved. Important faces were missing from the conclave included Zoramthanga, Pawan Chamling and T.R. Zeliang.

Upset with Noida police's 'lackadaisical' attitude, the family of 22-year-old Pravish Chanam refuses to collect ashes, awaits CBI probe.

Physical exclusion and indifference of the faculty towards the plight of marginisalised students is pushing many to suicide, and despite measures being in place, administrations are doing little to address the issues.

Taiwan’s gender progressive policies and eventual marriage equality law serve as a beacon of hope for the small island country.

A reporter's account of what transpired in Hyderabad Central University when Dalit students tried to commemorate Rohith Vemula's death anniversary.

Telangana police detained journalist Sudipto Mondal, Radhika Vemula and several students who were a part of a memorial protest at the University of Hyderabad.

A subaltern community with a gender-fluid identity, jogappas receive social reverence but have few economic opportunities.

Many foreign students are keen to fit in while in India. But persistent racism, discrimination and inaction by the authorities makes this extremely difficult.

The stand taken by Cardinal Gracias, the inter faith declaration on the acceptance of homosexuality and the release of a Christian book on the church and homophobia show religion in India is opening up to the LGBT community.