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Hate speech: If remarks are made with a smile, there is no criminality, says Delhi High Court Mar 26, 2022  https://scroll.in/latest/1020410/hate-speech-if-remarks-are-made-with-a-smile-there-is-no-criminality-says-delhi-high-court
CPM leaders have challenged a trial court order rejecting a plea for filing FIRs against Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma for allegedly making hate speeches. the Delhi High Court said “In the election speech, so many things are said by the politicians to politicians and that is also a wrong thing,” the High Court said. “But I have to see the criminality of the act. If you’re saying something with a smile then there is no criminality. If you’re saying something offensive, then definitely [there is criminality].”..Justice Chandra Dhari Singh made the statement while reserving its verdict on a petition filed by Communist Party of India leaders Brinda Karat and KM Tiwari.

The court said that it was important to note that when the speeches were made and what was the intention behind it.

“Only intention to win the election or intention to instigate the public to do the crime both are different things,” the judge said. “Then you have to see the mens rea [criminal intent].”

How caste works in an IIT https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/how-caste-works-in-an-iit-8519120/ Despite a string of measures to make campuses inclusive spaces, at some of India’s premier engineering colleges, caste remains a vexing issue. Pallavi Smart on how caste-based discrimination takes on many forms. One of which is a question...‘What’s your [JEE] rank?’ it’s a question that unfailingly follows that first handshake with a hostel mate..., For many students from some of the reserved categories, that seemingly innocuous ice-breaker ends up being a proxy for ‘what’s your caste?’.

A professor from IIT Roorkee, said, “Campuses of IIT are bound to reflect Indian society and it is futile for the administration to deny the existence of caste on campuses. The focus should rather be on making sure that the affirmative action of reservation is implemented effectively. Reservation is implemented across IITs when it comes to student admissions. But it is missing when it comes to faculty appointments, even after the Mission Mode recruitment drive.”

Barkha Dutt LIVE | Raghuram Rajan EXCLUSIVE On "Hindu Rate Of Growth," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9aIFzPgBYw 29/3/2023 Barkha Dutt speaks to former Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan who was recently in the headlines for his remarks that India is "dangerously close" to the Hindu rate of growth in view of subdued private sector investment, high interest rates and slowing global growth.

Rajan also speaks on Rahul Gandhi's disqualification, Adani-Hindenburg issue and the state of Indian economy.