Every effort is being made to repress the mass movement and paint it as a front of the Maoists. But the peaceful protest against a CRPF camp shows no sign of letting up.

The Allahabad high court has rejected a petition seeking the removal of the Shahi Idgah in Mathura but the threat to it and other Muslim shrines elsewhere, including Varanasi, remains real.

The Allahabad high court has rejected a petition seeking the removal of the Shahi Idgah in Mathura but the threat to it and other Muslim shrines elsewhere, including Varanasi, remains real.

Even for someone who worked extensively on Adivasi history, his thesis 'Contesting Claims and Contingencies of Rule: Singhbhum 1800 – 2000' offers new insights.

'The adivasis of Bastar are also part of Bharat. There are many serious concerns regarding their fundamental rights, which await your attention.'

The police filed FIRs for the killing of villagers only after their kin filed petition, provided an account riddled with inconsistencies, detained the petitioners before their testimony was recorded, yet the Supreme Court chose to believe the state and punish those who knocked on its doors.

The BJP’s choice of presidential candidate is electorally strategic but politically dishonest – for the reality of its ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ slogan for Adivasis is that they must sacrifice their lands and resources for other people’s vikas.

The thrust of the Supreme Court's judgment – that Modi did his best to control the 2002 violence and that his failure to do so was not deliberate – goes against its own rationale for appointing an SIT to investigate and prosecute the mass crimes that had been committed on his watch.

The BJP and Congress are on the same page when it comes to treating Adivasis as less than citizens.

"In a country like India you can’t only be only in the university, you can’t only be writing for your peers. In times like this, where there is a horrific, nasty regime in power, one has to speak out but I would still say, choose your battles wisely."

Academics and students in India have been facing an immediate, sharp and existential threat since 2014.

While corporates are free to expand their operations across economic spheres and state boundaries, the BJP is trying to split the movement of farmers and those fighting displacement with its dishonest labelling.

The SC judgment on designated protest spaces is not only un-implementable, but also profoundly elitist and anti-women.

Like the Christian liberation theologists, for Swamiji, to be a true Arya Samaji meant to be a rationalist and to work for the poorest.

The rights of adivasis in the Indian constitution are not an act of benevolence to “mainstream and uplift them” but a recognition that the “mainstream” of Indian society has many streams that flow into it, each of them equally valid.

Any outbreak of infection in Bastar or across central India will decimate the Adivasi population.

A party or a government which comes to power swearing on the constitution but does not share its vision is not only committing perjury, but is profoundly anti-republic.

The Ayodhya judgment offers no real restitution and in critical aspects, structurally reflects the VHP’s worldview.

Where the Congress has the chance to be really transformative is in how it addresses the Naxalite conflict. This is Rahul Gandhi’s litmus test to show if he and his party care about India’s adivasis.

Nandini Sundar, professor of sociology at Delhi School of Economics, speaks to The Wire on the assembly elections 2018.