On May 18,Shriram Hansda,an Adivasi from Jharkhand was killed in Manipur, the first instance of target killing of a non-Manipuri during the ongoing ethnic violence. Police arrested member of a banned insurgent outfit- KCP, slapped UAPA Abhinay Lakshman reports thehindu.com/news/national/…

Lured by better pay in Manipur, labourers are returning en masse out of fear, after an attack killed one of them and injured two others in Imphal. Abhinay Lakshman reports.
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For our election coverage Scroll.in I traveled to Giridih, Jharkhand and spoke to Kalpana Soren, a new entrant to politics, who has been creating a buzz in Jharkhand after her husband, former chief minister Hemant Soren, was arrested on January 31.

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Spivak responds to JNU controversy, says didn't stop student from asking Q, he should've clarified he was Dalit
Continued insisting on 'correct' pronunciation of Du Bois.
On the discourse since: 'Subaltern & Dalit not interchangeable words' The Hindu

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Following the incident, 28-year-old Anshul Kumar put up a poster in protest outside the auditorium where the talk was held, which read: “If the subaltern can’t speak, he shall abuse!” reports Abhinay Lakshman

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Mr. Modi’s government at the Centre has twice now (in 2019 and 2022) refused to acknowledge the existence of caste discrimination within Islam in affidavits it has filed before the Supreme Court, writes Abhinay Lakshman

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Non Yadav OBCs who switched to BJP in 2014 are shifting away from the party. In their appraisal the Narendra Modi in 10-yrs kept them short of total destitution but cheated them out of the life they had been promised. I report from Eastern UP
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Unidentified gunmen kill Jharkhand man in Manipur.
The deceased was identified as Shree Ram Hansda (42), a resident of Godda district in Jharkhand. He was working as a labourer.
#ManipurViolence
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Five people were killed in May in forest fires that have been raging in Uttarakhand since last November. Ishita Mishra travels across the State and finds that villagers, mostly women, are helping extinguish the flames
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No one can match the hard work the youth of Bihar puts in to find a job. It was a learning experience talking to youngsters in Buxar and Arrah and felt proud for their commitment and passion. My report on what they told me on #Agnipath #Agniveer scheme. thehindu.com/elections/lok-…

“Everything is good in India. The West’s hold over culture is ebbing,' says Prabhat Kumar of Sanskar Bharti. Lalit Kala Akademi, the country's premier art institution, regularly collaborates w the RSS cultural wing.

The remaking of India's art sector:

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BJP’s Hindutva pull diluted by grievances in Gorakhpur.

SP-Congress combine is hoping for a repeat of 2018 when the caste matrix trumped BJP’s Hindutva pitch here
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Story 🚨 In Varanasi's least competitive election in decades, 14 BJP-RSS members filed nominations as independents.

Along with election officials, they deliberately delayed nominations for others, violating ECI guidelines, allege candidates. Scroll.in

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The 4,600-year-old woman from Rakhigarhi thehindu.com/news/national/…

A clerk from Vellore who helped in toppling the Ranashahi in Nepal. India's relation with the land of millets! Mohammed Ali Jinnah's private secretary who joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1947 - & many more stories at #NehrusFirstRecruits . HarperCollins

How to look at same data in 3 diff ways
As tot. population-Hindu up by ~70 cr, Muslim by 14 cr
As share of population-Hindu down by 7 %age points, Muslim up by 4 %age points
Not controversial enough for elections?
PM-EAC uses rate of change- Hindu down by 8%, Muslim up by 43%👏👏

The EAC-PM paper on population is not based on any new finding. It compares 1950 Census with 2011 data. No Census has been done since 2011. “If one were to apply the same calculations, it would show the Buddhist population had increased by 1,520% in this time.”

The Population Foundation of India (PFI) expressed deep concerns about media reports misrepresenting the data set put out by EAC-PMb in a recently published working paper on the share of religious minorities in 167 countries, including India.
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Join the live discussion to mark the one year anniversary of Manipur violence on The Hindu at 7 p.m. with me, Abhinay Lakshman, A. Bimol Akoijam, and Chinkhanlun Guite.

The Telangana police have closed the Rohith Vemula SC/ST atrocity case against BJP leaders Smriti Irani, Bandaru Dattatreya, Ramachandra Rao and former VC of Hyderabad University P Apparao citing lack of evidence thenewsminute.com/news/telangana…