Topic: civil society

As long as questions of caste-based, ethnic, and religious discrimination remain trapped within frameworks of statistics or technical definitions, the lived suffering of communities at the grassroots will not diminish.

When citizens, especially those with the least institutional power, insist on these rights, they perform an essential democratic function.

A republic remains healthy only when power understands that its legitimacy comes from law, not personality. When that understanding weakens, the pathology of power has already begun.

Under the guise of transparency, the proposed bill introduces “automatic cessation” and a “Designated Authority” to permanently confiscate schools, hospitals, and land built by minority organizations to serve marginalized communities.