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Monday, October 13, 2025
TopicSocial Justice

Topic: Social Justice

Pew findings show Indians live religiously segregated. Blame the State

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Ensure no discrimination of transgender persons at Covid vaccine centres — govt to states

The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry has also urged the states to conduct awareness drives especially to reach out to the transgender community about the vaccination process.

Swami Agnivesh, saffron-clad social justice activist, dies at 80 of multiple organ failure

Swami Agnivesh, who tackled bonded labour and other social issues and was a leading light of the Arya Samaj, was suffering from liver cirrhosis.

Coronavirus is shaking up the moral universe and testing profound philosophical questions

The pandemic is also a test of the strength of the ideas humans choose to help them form moral judgments and guide personal and social behaviour.

How mathematics can be an anti-racist, feminist enterprise

If we can agree that mathematics can operate as whiteness, then we have a moral duty to ask how mathematics might be otherwise.

Modi govt’s inclusive growth plan for India has turned social justice on its head

The current phase of the quota system is geared to benefit those who are not the victims of caste discrimination, but its perpetrators.

BJP prevailed upon its upper caste base to pave the way for a more inclusive cabinet

BJP is correcting the injustices of the last 70 years when vulnerable groups were pushed to the margins.

Parties like SP-BSP & RJD are not the future of social justice politics in India, people are

As long as there is discrimination based on caste and class, the politics of social justice will remain relevant in India.

Javadekar promises thousands of seats in higher education institutes as per new 10% quota

The union HRD minister termed the 10% reservation for economically backward section in general category a move towards social justice.

Junior social justice minister didn’t know of 10% quota bill even on day it came to Lok Sabha

LS website contains details of an unstarred question in which MoS Krishan Pal Gurjar has stated that govt was not considering any such quota proposal.

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.