Muharram: A period of mourning, not festivities

Each year on the arrival of Muharram, my phone gets flooded with messages congratulating me on…

Muslims in India: The last subaltern

In May 2023, CPI (M-L) Liberation’s general secretary, Dipankar Bhattacharya received the ‘Ambedkar Sudar’ Award. In…

Erasure of Muslim intellectuals in Indian academia

During a marathon 15-hour academic council meeting on May 27th this year, Delhi University decided to…

Expansion of national park in Assam uproots 3000 predominantly Muslim families

Ajiran, who goes by her first name, sat on the bank of the Dhansiri river near…

Exploring the link between hijab ban, social anxiety disorder, persistent PTSD cases

The mental health of Indian Muslims is at risk due to systemic discrimination, which includes vilification,…

“My fear has vanished,” says human rights defender Mohammad Shoaib interrogated by UP ATS

Mohammad Shoaib, a prominent human rights activist and lawyer associated with a legal aid organization Rihai…

Photos: Forest dwellers displaced by Nagarhole Tiger Reserve fight for their ancestral land

For decades, evicted forest dwellers from India’s Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, near the Karnataka-Kerala border, are fighting…

2020 Delhi pogrom: Citizens’ chargesheet against hate-mongering

On February 26, 2020, the Delhi High Court asked the Delhi Police to take a “conscious…