Friday, April 19, 2024

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“It’s a trap”: Why Bengali Hindus in Assam are opting out of Citizenship through CAA

Forty-three-year-old Montu Das was happy after the Indian government announced the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules on March 11.  The CAA grants fast-track citizenship to migrants in India from six...

Kerala: Church justifies screening of Adult film ‘The Kerala Story’ for minors; reignites Islamophobic bogey ‘Love Jihad’

Protests surrounding the Hindutva propaganda movie, 'The Kerala Story', resurfaced after the movie was screened by a church,...

34 crore blood money: Thousands join fundraiser to save Kerala man from death row in Saudi

Thousands have joined a Mother in Kerala’s Kozhikode in a last bid to save her son from being...

Analysing dip in Academic Freedom Index: Who takes the deepest plunge?

Dr. Shirin Akhter, Dr. Vijender Singh Chauhan The recent revelation on the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) shows that academic...

Election 2024: Samajwadi Party’s internal chaos might open a window for AIMIM in UP’s Meerut

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a joint rally alongside the NDA's new partner, Jayant Chaudhary’s...

Inqilab in Court: What does Urdu word really mean?

Last week, the Urdu word inqilab and its meanings were under discussion in the Delhi High Court. In the court, inqilab came under deliberation to determine whether or not...

Aani Maani: Constructing an Indian Muslim identity for celluloid

Aani Maani is a 2019 Indian drama film written and directed by Fahim Irshad, starring  Farrukh Seyer, Priyanka Verma and Neha Singh in the lead roles. Three years after...
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Demolition, resettlement: Tale of two colonies in Delhi

In Madanpur-Khadar, a suburb in New Delhi where South Delhi Municipal Corporation(SDMC) recently launched a demolition drive, a Jhuggi-Jhopdi cluster belongs to dozens of families resettled from Kalkaji two...

MP: Marriage with Hindu woman leaves a Muslim family miserable

Three days after Asif Khan and Sakshi Sahu eloped, Khan’s family house and shop were wrecked by bulldozers. While the two married each other in a temple, that didn't spare them from the wrath of Hindutva groups, who has given open calls to harm Asif.
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Hasty deportation of Rohingya refugee from Jammu triggers panic

On May 5, the news about the deportation of Jafar Alam, one of the refugees living in Jammu, spread across the community living in Jammu. Earlier, on April 17,...

“Why do you fear my way so much?” G.N. Saibaba writes from prison

The book "Why do you fear my way so much?", containing letters and poems from prison by human rights defender and Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba was launched at Jawahar Bhawan in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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Brahminised Environmentalism: Why moral vegetarianism in India is shaky?

The morally superior position of the supposedly caste-less vegetarians in twenty-first-century urban India is more derived from an aesthetic that neatly combines Brahmanism and environmentalism than any effort towards...

“Why so barbarous?” asks Muslim man assaulted in viral video from Khargone

A recent video from Madhya Pradesh's Khargone, following anti-Muslim violence on Ram Navami, had gone viral where five police personnel can be seen brutally assaulting two Muslim men.
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Violent raids by cow vigilantes grip Haryana’s Muslim villages

Last week, videos of cow vigilantes open firing and forcefully abducting Muslims in Haryana's Nuh were viral on social media.

“None feel at home,” says Rohingya refugee threatened with deportation

Abdul Rohim’s 8-year-old daughter, who till now has only seen her real home in pictures, wants to leave India and go back. She was just 6-month-old when her family...
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Ban for special Ramadan prayers at Srinagar Jamia Masjid hurts believers

On the last Friday of Ramadan, women desperately offered afternoon prayer outside the locked gates of Jamia Masjid. On the previous evening, the doors of Kashmir’s historic Jamia Masjid...

Mughal road linking Kashmir’s Pir Panjal with Srinagar remains closed, commuters stranded

Nasir Khuehami and Ummar Jamal Historic Mughal Road, an alternative road, to connect the bordering districts of Rajouri and Poonch to Srinagar continues to be closed since December last year....
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