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Fighting Bad Press: Karnataka-based Campaign Against Hate Speech has successfully complained against media channels that spread misinformation and targeted harassment ( https://www.newsclick.in/press-council-finds-vijay-karnataka-newspaper-guilty-targeting-muslims-covid-19-coverage ) . NewsClick reporter Nikhil Cariappa talks to Shilpa Prasad, lawyer and member of the Campaign, about the process.

Terror in Barjora: Panic grips four villages in the Barjora region in West Bengal. The reason is intense explosions for opencast mining. Agricultural labourers and farmers evicted in the villages and around await compensation and rehabilitation ( https://www.newsclick.in/bengals-barjora-coal-mines-disaster-waiting ) reports Madhu Sudan Chatterjee, who writes for Ganashakti.

There can be no Bhagat Singh without his ideology, notes historian S. Irfan Habib in conversation with senior journalist Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay. If Bhagat Singh is not a communist in our remembrance ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOQ2fkCRETo ) , he’s only a photo on a wall. Habib says the ruling political parties in Punjab or elsewhere do not need a ‘strategy’ to bring Bhagat Singh’s ideas into provenance. All leaders must do is read the literature he has left behind. But when they thrust Bhagat Singh’s face into the limelight, minus his ideas, it is akin to killing him again.

 Bhagat Singh’s Essays: Student activist Sahil Budhwar recalls Bhagat Singh’s Letter to Young Political Workers ( https://www.newsclick.in/studentswith-love-bhagat-singh  ) and his essay on students and politics. Released by the SFI on the anniversary of his hanging on 23 March, NewsClick brings you the epilogue of the booklet that features both essays.