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‘You natives, be grateful that your children died as Christians, not pagans’: American Conservative magazine tells indigenous people in Canada

Sanghamitra - 9 July, 2021

The article goes on to defend the residential school system altogether. It actually asserts that 'it was necessary to convert native people into Christianity because otherwise, "their souls could not have been saved."

Opinions

No, the death of Stan Swamy is not “judicial murder”. Here is the truth

Abhishek Banerjee - 7 July, 2021

Multiple media reports and so-called activists have claimed that terror accused Stan Swamy's death at hospital due to medical complications is 'judicial murder'. Here is a lowdown of the facts

Law

Supreme Court curtailing the inherent powers of the High Courts: Neither legal, nor justified

B.V. Acharya - 6 July, 2021

B.V. Acharya, senior advocate and former Advocate General, Karnataka, argues why the Supreme Court should not restrict High Courts.

Opinions

Want to celebrate someone’s death? Here is a toolkit and handbook from liberal library

K Bhattacharjee - 6 July, 2021

Stan Swamy was an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case and had multiple serious allegations against him.

Opinions

Thou shall not crack this joke – how Vir Das deleting tweet shows what they say is not what matches in action

Nirwa Mehta - 6 July, 2021

'Comedians' in India cry hoarse that 'Sanghis' are not letting them crack jokes while taking less than an hour to delete 'jokes' on 'wokes'

Specials

Dalai Lama’s 86th birthday: How the Tibetan spiritual leader escaped persecution and outsmarted China to cross over to India 62 years ago

Jinit Jain - 6 July, 2021

Dalai Lama XIV or Tenzin Gyatso as he is known with his worldly name was born on 6 July 1935 to a small farming family in the small hamlet of Taktser, Amdo, which is in northeastern Tibet.

Politics