Did You Know (Documentation)

The Did You Know section on the home page presents a rotating grid of short, curious facts drawn from pages across the project, covering Sunil Abraham’s life and work, digital rights, internet policy, and the scholarship of A. M. A. Ayrookuzhiel. The section was first introduced on 13 November 2025.

Unlike the Featured Article or Featured Media sections, the Did You Know entries were not swapped out in a single batch. Instead, facts were added gradually, one or two at a time, as new pages were created and relevant material emerged. There is no single “edition” date for each entry; the section grew organically over several months. This page records all entries that have appeared, grouped by the broad period in which they were added.

November 2025 – April 2026

The following entries were present in the Did You Know section during this period, added incrementally from the section’s launch in November 2025 through April 2026.

Did you know…

… that the concept of religious colonisation was used by theologian A. M. A. Ayrookuzhiel to describe how Dalit gods and myths were absorbed into a Brahmanical order?
… that the movement Students for Peace (1993) brought together 5,000 students on Bangalore’s M. G. Road for a candlelight protest promoting unity and non-violence after the Ayodhya and Bombay riots? (This entry was hidden on 13 February 2026 when a dedicated section on the 33rd anniversary of Students for Peace was added to the home page, to avoid duplicating the link on the same page. It was not restored after that section was removed.)
… that when Sunil finished an engineering degree in 1995 and began job hunting in Bangalore, the internet was something he had heard of but never worked with, pushing him towards the non-profit sector?
… that a 2004 The Times of India article wrote that Sunil Abraham could well be a poster boy for “India Shining”?
… that Aadhaar reverses the logic of transparency — making citizens visible to the state while keeping the state opaque?
… that India’s 2011 Intermediaries Guidelines require online platforms to remove content within 36 hours of a complaint, creating a culture of over-compliance and silent censorship?
… that the Shreya Singhal judgment (2015) marked a significant doctrinal shift in Indian law, moving from a ‘tendency’ test to an ‘imminence’ test when judging if speech incites violence?
… that Ponnamma Abraham undertook her nursing training in Germany, served in hospitals in the United Kingdom, and after returning to India became a teacher who retired as a school principal?
… that intermediary liability law has been described as a form of ‘private censorship’, since platforms can decide what stays online without clear legal transparency requirements?
… that the policy brief Artificial Intelligence: A Full-Spectrum Regulatory Challenge (2019) rejects one-size-fits-all AI ethics and instead proposes context-specific regulation based on who uses the technology and the harm it can cause?