“They killed a soldier. Then filed a case against him. Then called him anti-national" Kargil War vet killed in police firing during Leh’s statehood protests 4 Ladakhis died. Judicial inquiry ordered. Year on, no answer on why lethal force was used. @betwasharma.bsky.social reports Link 👇
“The pain was too much" Father of 23-year-old who pushed his son's stretcher to the morgue 4 Ladakhis killed in police firing during Leh’s statehood protests Judicial inquiry ordered A year on, outrage over silence on why lethal force was used @betwasharma.bsky.social reports Link👇
“Why did they not use tear gas/ water cannons? I want to know who ordered the shooting" Mother of 23-year-old killed in police firing during Leh’s statehood protest 4 Ladakhis killed. Judicial inquiry. 1 yr on, silence on why lethal force was used @betwasharma.bsky.social reports Link 👇
“Who shot my husband? Who gave the order to shoot?” We need to know” Wife of Kargil War veteran killed in police firing during Leh’s statehood protest 4 Ladakhis killed. Judicial inquiry. 1 yr on, silence on why lethal force was used before non-lethal options. @betwasharma.bsky.social Link 👇
CBI/Rajasthan police ran such a botched investigation into the killing of 5 Dalits that not one of the 40 Jat accused was convicted 11 yrs, not even an identification parade/DNA/ballistic exam This is the state of investigations in India Judgment: "The occurrence is proved; perpetrators are not"
How Police & CBI Failures Left The Killing Of 5 Dalits In Rajasthan Without A Single Conviction, 11 Years Later
Eleven years after five Dalit men were killed in collective violence involving Dalits and Jats in a Rajasthan village, a district court has acquitted all 40 accused, all Jats, after finding that the p...
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5 months, 8 peoeple in jail over Noida’s wage protests Allahabad HC quashes artist's NSA detention: "concocted story" Journalist not visited Noida in 10+ years Video of engineer & auto driver urging peaceful protest Law student's messages urging peaceful protest article-14.com/post/from-fa...
From Factory Worker To Journalist: How Police Swept 8 People Into Noida’s ‘Organised Conspiracy’ Case
As a judge calls the police account of Aakriti Chaudhary, a 25-year-old theatre artist and historian and one of eight people still jailed over Noida’s wage protests, “concocted”, other infirmities in ...
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'This is also a fight to protect our jal, jungle and zameen. Not only is the tiger under threat, but there is also a gharial sanctuary here which is facing danger...compensation can only build a house – but [our] water, forest, land, livelihood, & skills have all disappeared with this forest.'
‘They Beat You & Don’t Let You Complain:’ Gandhian Activist On The Fight Against India's First River-Linking Project
Amit Bhatnagar, one of the leaders of the movement against the controversial Ken-Betwa project, India’s first project to link rivers, discusses arrests, demolitions, police crackdowns and the resistan...
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Betwa Sharma@betwasharma.bsky.social · 2mo ago"... a proverb in Bundelkhand: 'Jabra maare rone na de'" (We will beat you & we will not even let you complain) Read about the resistance to the Ken-Betwa river-linking project 20+villages will be displaced 2-4 million trees will be felled inside Panna Tiger Reserve article-14.com/post/-they-b...
"... a proverb in Bundelkhand: 'Jabra maare rone na de'" (We will beat you & we will not even let you complain) Read about the resistance to the Ken-Betwa river-linking project 20+villages will be displaced 2-4 million trees will be felled inside Panna Tiger Reserve article-14.com/post/-they-b...
The timeline Tax raids Then, Rs 60 cr in electoral bond donations to BJP Then, a Rs 3,389 cr dam contract How did an Andhra company that did not meet tender criteria land the Rs 3,389 cr Daudhan Dam contract in the Ken-Betwa project? Order book rose >3X in 6 yrs article-14.com/post/no-big-...
No Big Dam Experience, Rs 60 Crore to BJP: How An Andhra Company Won India's First River-Linking Dam Contract
As Adivasis fight displacement and the destruction of a tiger reserve, questions surround how an Andhra-based company with limited dam-building experience won the Rs 3,389-crore Daudhan Dam contract i...
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"... a proverb in Bundelkhand: 'Jabra maare rone na de'" (We will beat you & we will not even let you complain) Read about the resistance to the Ken-Betwa river-linking project 20+villages will be displaced 2-4 million trees will be felled inside Panna Tiger Reserve article-14.com/post/-they-b...
The timeline Tax raids Then, Rs 60 cr in electoral bond donations to BJP Then, a Rs 3,389 cr dam contract How did an Andhra company that did not meet tender criteria land the Rs 3,389 cr Daudhan Dam contract in the Ken-Betwa project? Order book rose >3X in 6 yrs article-14.com/post/no-big-...
No Big Dam Experience, Rs 60 Crore to BJP: How An Andhra Company Won India's First River-Linking Dam Contract
As Adivasis fight displacement and the destruction of a tiger reserve, questions surround how an Andhra-based company with limited dam-building experience won the Rs 3,389-crore Daudhan Dam contract i...
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"Eid…That’s when our patient load goes through the roof" A bearded man shows an Aadhaar card of a clean-shaven teenager to obtain a prescription, calls that rose from 2,000 a month in 2022 to 150,000 a month by April 2026 Scenes from a de-addiction centre in Kashmir article-14.com/post/j-k-s-s...
J&K's Sweeping Drug Crackdown Sends Thousands Into Withdrawal, Overwhelms De-Addiction Centres
A severe Jammu & Kashmir campaign against drug trafficking has sharply curtailed the supply of narcotics, sending thousands of people dependent on opioids into withdrawal and overwhelming de-addiction...
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“Hindu community will not spare you” It has become routine for Hindu extremists to disrupt prayer services at churches in & around Mumbai on Sundays Sometimes they arrive with the police They make Instagram reels of the attacks No fear of the law article-14.com/post/-now-th...
‘Now The Govt Listens To Us’: The Bajrang Dal Is Escalating Attacks On Mumbai’s Independent Churches
From March to August 2026, the Hindu nationalist organisation, Bajrang Dal, disrupted prayer services of numerous small churches in Mumbai and neighbouring cities, accusing them of illegal religious c...
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"Eid…That’s when our patient load goes through the roof" A bearded man shows an Aadhaar card of a clean-shaven teenager to obtain a prescription, calls that rose from 2,000 a month in 2022 to 150,000 a month by April 2026 Scenes from a de-addiction centre in Kashmir article-14.com/post/j-k-s-s...
J&K's Sweeping Drug Crackdown Sends Thousands Into Withdrawal, Overwhelms De-Addiction Centres
A severe Jammu & Kashmir campaign against drug trafficking has sharply curtailed the supply of narcotics, sending thousands of people dependent on opioids into withdrawal and overwhelming de-addiction...
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“Hindu community will not spare you” It has become routine for Hindu extremists to disrupt prayer services at churches in & around Mumbai on Sundays Sometimes they arrive with the police They make Instagram reels of the attacks No fear of the law article-14.com/post/-now-th...
‘Now The Govt Listens To Us’: The Bajrang Dal Is Escalating Attacks On Mumbai’s Independent Churches
From March to August 2026, the Hindu nationalist organisation, Bajrang Dal, disrupted prayer services of numerous small churches in Mumbai and neighbouring cities, accusing them of illegal religious c...
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Acquittal of 11 Muslim men, 4 yrs after Ram Navami violence in Khargone, MP, is another example of a made-up police case allowed by India's courts Eyewitnesses identified no one No identification parade No forensic evidence Translation of the Hindi judgment reveals article-14.com/post/demolit...
Demolitions to Acquittal: Ram Navami Violence Case Against 11 Muslims Was Built Without Evidence
With eyewitnesses unable to identify the accused, no identification parade conducted and no forensic evidence connecting them to the alleged crimes, a court acquitted 11 Muslim men charged in communal...
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The National Film Awards are dying a slow death If The Kerala Story's double honour in 2023 left any doubt, the triple honour Article 370 has confirmed it Anna Vetticad on an awards system willing to recognise propaganda, historical distortion, majoritarian politics article-14.com/post/how-the...
How The National Film Awards Became A Showcase For The Modi Era’s Favourite Narratives
The honours for Article 370, a Hindi film aligned with the Hindutva project, are the latest evidence of a decline years in the making: an awards system willing to recognise propaganda, historical dist...
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Acquittal of 11 Muslim men, 4 yrs after Ram Navami violence in Khargone, MP, is another example of a made-up police case allowed by India's courts Eyewitnesses identified no one No identification parade No forensic evidence Translation of the Hindi judgment reveals article-14.com/post/demolit...
Demolitions to Acquittal: Ram Navami Violence Case Against 11 Muslims Was Built Without Evidence
With eyewitnesses unable to identify the accused, no identification parade conducted and no forensic evidence connecting them to the alleged crimes, a court acquitted 11 Muslim men charged in communal...
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India had little choice but to engage Iran. It was more necessity than principle. But even in global politics, abandoning friends when it matters most undercuts any claim to moral leadership. That’s not what a “vishwaguru” looks like. consortiumnews.com/2026/04/13/w...
War On Iran: How India Got It Wrong
While Modi’s supporters argue the U.S.-Israel war on Iran was never India’s war, Betwa Sharma says the government has undercut its effort to project India as a vishwaguru, or world teacher, in a new e...
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"I can send my daughters to study abroad, but we can’t move to any posh or even middle-class society in the rest of Ahmedabad" In a city set to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games, segregation & Islamophobia shape everyday life #fieldnotes article14.substack.com/p/field-note...
Field Note: Aspiration & Apartheid In Juhapura
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On Ram Navami, a gory tableau of a fridge, with a woman's dismembered body & blood dripping out “This is to show where women will end up in pieces if they trust Muslim men.” How the birth of Lord Rama is celebrated in India today. article-14.com/post/late-ni...
Late‑Night WhatsApp Chains, Rallies, a New Law: How ‘Love Jihad’ Went from Street To Statute Book In Maharashtra
For more than three years, Maharashtra witnessed dozens of rallies by Hindutva outfits, led by BJP leaders, spreading ‘love jihad’ conspiracies, threatening Muslims, and demanding a law to criminalise...
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#UmarKhalid case shows that questioning the govt is criminalised & treated as an attack on the country: a dangerous conflation 50 people were killed in the riots. They, & all of us, deserve the truth, based on an honest investigation/ evidence, not a predetermined
Foundation DAHRD@dahrd.bsky.social · 6mo ago📣 Missed our webinar 'Justice on hold: Umar Khalid's story of Resistance' with Hannah van Dijcke (@hrf.org), Dr Banojyotsna Lahiri and Betwa Sharma (Article 14) ? You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel 👉🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8A... !
📣 Missed our webinar 'Justice on hold: Umar Khalid's story of Resistance' with Hannah van Dijcke (@hrf.org), Dr Banojyotsna Lahiri and Betwa Sharma (Article 14) ? You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel 👉🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8A... !
Justice on Hold: Umar Khalid's story of resistance- webinar 17 03 2026
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The war on Iran has exposed the fragility of BRICS as a rising alternative to the U.S.-led global order Under pressure, it looks less like a unified bloc & more like a group with overlapping interests that diverge sharply under pressure. consortiumnews.com/2026/03/26/i...
Iran War Exposes Cracks in BRICS Wall
Fissures have opened in the bloc over the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, writes Betwa Sharma. India has perhaps been most divisive. Let alone as a global power, India isn't even projecting itself as a truly...
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A Minnesota family rewrote “San Francisco” after ICE agents fatally shot two protesters, with the line “There comes a time, it will be beyond repair.” In India, that time appears to be here already, writes @betwasharma.bsky.social For our edit notes, subscribe article-14.com/subscribe
"I had decided to construct the school on my private land so that my village can progress and some people can study." Abdul Naeem spent about ₹20 lakh building a school for village children in Madhya Pradesh. What followed: Madrasa rumours and a demolition indianexpress.com/article/indi...
He set out to build a school for his village in Madhya Pradesh. What followed: Madrasa rumours and demolition
Abdul Naeem, who poured nearly Rs 20 lakh of borrowed money and family savings into the construction, watched portions of it crumble following orders from the administration
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"We are being punished because of our identity. If the Supreme Court won’t spell it out, it serves no purpose" 3.5 years on, the petition against the demolition of her family home remains unheard. Afreen Fatima on documenting 53 more cases & why they won't stop article-14.com/post/her-hom...
Her Home Was Destroyed By The UP Government. She Went On To Track 53 Punitive Demolitions
Three years after her family home was demolished in Allahabad in July 2022 by the Uttar Pradesh government after a riot—an event beamed as a spectacle on television—Afreen Fatima has documented thousa...
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5+ years in pre-trial detention Fabrications, poor evidence & investigation —all ignored Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam denied bail By allowing endless punishment, the courts have enabled the government’s silencing of Muslim voices & ensuring no more emerge article-14.com/post/how-the...
How The Supreme Court’s Bail Order Against Umar, Sharjeel Enables Govt Efforts To Silence Muslim Voices
Time and again, lower courts have caught the Delhi Police fabricating evidence in riot cases. Yet in Umar Khalid’s case, even as their claims about a key conspiratorial meeting fell apart, judges—from...
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"We are being punished because of our identity. If the Supreme Court won’t spell it out, it serves no purpose" 3.5 years on, the petition against the demolition of her family home remains unheard. Afreen Fatima on documenting 53 more cases & why they won't stop article-14.com/post/her-hom...
Her Home Was Destroyed By The UP Government. She Went On To Track 53 Punitive Demolitions
Three years after her family home was demolished in Allahabad in July 2022 by the Uttar Pradesh government after a riot—an event beamed as a spectacle on television—Afreen Fatima has documented thousa...
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5+ years in pre-trial detention Fabrications, poor evidence & investigation —all ignored Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam denied bail By allowing endless punishment, the courts have enabled the government’s silencing of Muslim voices & ensuring no more emerge article-14.com/post/how-the...
How The Supreme Court’s Bail Order Against Umar, Sharjeel Enables Govt Efforts To Silence Muslim Voices
Time and again, lower courts have caught the Delhi Police fabricating evidence in riot cases. Yet in Umar Khalid’s case, even as their claims about a key conspiratorial meeting fell apart, judges—from...
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