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If Prime Minister Narendra Modi were to close down the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, it would confirm one’s worst fears about his government’s hypocritical approach to grass-roots democracy for grass-roots development.

It
 is
 truly
 remarkable
 that 
a
 teachers ’
rebellion, 
unequivocally 
singular 
in 
scale
 and
 intensity,
 has
 arisen, 
this
 summer
 of
 2016,
 like
 a 
Phoenix, 
from 
the
 dust
 that
 Delhi
 University 
(DU)
 was
 being
 systematically 
reduced
 to 
over 
the 
last 
many 
years.

Critics are lashing out at the Hindutva movement that encourages changing history texts to promote Hinduism in India

We are representatives of people’s movements, civil society organisations, and other concerned citizens from India, who have been engaged with, or monitoring World Bank financed projects for the past many years.

In what could lend more heft to the fight for their rights, leading lights of the LGBT community have moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of Section 377 of IPC to protect their sexual preferences, saying these are part and parcel of the right to life.