‘Manipur Violence was Not Spontaneous, But Plannedand Ethnically Targeted’: PUCL Report

New Delhi: The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) on August 20 released the Independent People’s Tribunal on the Ongoing Ethnic Conflict in Manipur at the PressClub of India, New Delhi. The 694-page report, authored under the chairmanship offormer Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph, delivers the conclusion: “Theviolence which erupted on May 3, 2023, was not spontaneous but planned, ethnicallytargeted, and facilitated by state failures.”

When politics shook hands with religion in Dravidian soil: Thiruparankundram turmoil and its after-math

The Murugan Bakthargal Aanmeega Maanadu (Murugan Devotees’ Spiritual Conference)that took place in Madurai, Tamil Nadu on June 22, 2025 has successfully garnered theattention of the majority, with the Hindu Munnani boasting around a lakh participants. Butthe genesis of it and what it envisions tells a tale that is unbecoming of the progressivesocial justice model of Tamil nadu, a state steeped in its Dravidian ideology.