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Data & Research

Numbers carried through a real narrative, community response represented alongside the data.

The Supreme Court of India building, New Delhi
The Supreme Court of India, New Delhi. — Subhashish Panigrahi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Atrocity & Accountability

The Conviction Gap: What NCRB's Own Data Shows About the Prevention of Atrocities Act

India's own crime-data tables show conviction rates for caste-atrocity cases barely moving in years — the real bottleneck sits far past the police station, in a court system that decides only a sliver of a fast-growing backlog.

AUG 15, 2026 · 12 MIN READ
Land, Labour & Economic Justice

Two counts of the same dead sanitation workers, 1.8x apart

The government told Parliament 332 people have died in sewers and septic tanks since January 2021. A civil-society group counting the same years puts the number at 593. Neither figure is fabricated. They disagree because they are not measuring the same thing — and the gap between them is where the dead who don't officially exist are.

AUG 12, 2026 · 6 MIN READ