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Former Delhi University Professor G.N. Saibaba celebrates with his family after being released from the Nagpur Central Jail after the Bombay High Court acquitted him in an alleged Maoist links case, in Nagpur on Mach 7, 2024.
Human Rights

G.N. Saibaba’s acquittal prompts calls to scrap UAPA

Additionally, the harsh and inhumane treatment meted out to prisoners underscores the urgent need for a law that criminalises such acts.
Ashutosh Sharma
Book Review

Queer love and freedom in 1920s India

Ruth Vanita’s historical novel examines scans queer desire, cinema, and modernisation through interconnected lives in 1920s Bombay and Delhi.
Vivek Tejuja
Labour Exploitation

India to Italy: A trail of broken dreams, loss, and abuse

Indians take risky routes to Italy in search of work but many end up exploited on back-breaking farms.
Reuters
CONTROVERSY

Random enforcement of KYC rules is denying the poor their own money and dignity

Banks are freezing accounts without warning, forcing people to make costly trips to distant branches and pay bribes just to access pensions and wages.
Jean Drèze,Vipul Paikra,Natasha Trivedi
Labour Rights

Samsung workers end 37-day strike in Tamil Nadu, union recognition still pending

While union registration remains sub-judice, workers secured commitments for dialogue on demands and protection from punitive action.
Siddarth Muralidharan

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Samsung workers in Tamil Nadu are locked in a fierce struggle for union recognition, facing arrests and tent demolitions while the government claims a resolution with a separate committee. 

Samsung strike: Workers arrested as battle for union recognition continues

Tamil Nadu government swiftly dismantled protest site, arrested workers after they rejected a pact reached between Samsung and a “workmen committee”.
Siddarth Muralidharan
A. Soundararajan, general secretary of CITU, Tamil Nadu says Samsung is determined to prevent unions by resorting to aggressive methods.

Our main demand is recognition of the union; if that happens, we will call off strike: A. Soundararajan

The Tamil Nadu CITU general secretary says this strike is about workers’ constitutional right to form associations under Article 19(1).
Siddarth Muralidharan
E. Muthukumar, president of the Samsung India Workers Union, hopes that this strike ends in victory for the workers.

No difference between what is said by Samsung and Tamil Nadu government: E. Muthukumar

The SIWU president states that the strike focusses on the right to unionise and says victory for trade union rights is a victory for everyone.
Siddarth Muralidharan
The community, which has called Delhi home for three generations, awaits a crucial court decision on October 23.

Delhi’s Madrasi Camp and its 2,000 Tamil migrants face demolition threat

Home to working class Tamils for over 60 years, this colony in Jangpura, Delhi’s migrant haven, gets caught in the BJP-AAP crossfire.
Vitasta Kaul,Vedaant Lakhera
Samsung workers take part in a strike demanding higher wages and better working conditions at Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, on September 16.

Samsung workers strike in Sriperumbudur. What’s driving India’s largest electronics workers’ protest?

Over 1,000 employees demand higher wages and union recognition, testing labour relations in the country’s burgeoning tech manufacturing sector.
Siddarth Muralidharan
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