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Elections 2024
In Sambhal, UP Police accused of voter suppression
The third phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024 was completed in Uttar Pradesh with multiple allegations levelled by the voters of Sambhal constituency of being driven away, lathi-charged, and...
Elections 2024
In Pictures: “Need change, want to live peacefully,” say Ahmedabad voters
Three days before Gujarat goes to the polls to elect Lok Sabha members, Maktoob’s Muhammed Noufal PM and Sahid Faris talked to the voters of Ahmedabad. While some say they support Narendra Modi because he is the strongest man, others say they need a change in government so they can live a peaceful life.
East India
North Bengal’s tea gardens, missing childhoods and unending exploitation
Fulmoni Munda’s son Taran (name changed to protect identity as per law), who would be 27 this year, had gone missing in 2011. Fulmoni, a retired tea garden worker who lives with her elder sister in the Matiali block of Malbazar sub-division in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, believes a local goon trafficked him to work in Delhi. The elderly lady waits for her long-lost son in her small cottage with only an old passport-size photo, which hasn’t been of much help in finding him.
Elections 2024
Betrayals, false promises and broken alliances: Election apathy peaks in Kashmir
Mubashir Naik and Zoya Malik
As Jammu & Kashmir encounters the parliamentary election this month, uncertainty looms, about whether...
Bookshelf
Book review: ‘Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution’; Imagining a country led by lower castes
This article is a review of the book Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics by Divya Dwivedi...
Features
Panels piled upon panels; How Kerala govt failed to act on anti-women bias in film industry?
For hours harassment was discussed and debated, but as the talk got serious and solution-seeking, panels piled upon panels and it got dragged into never-ending tomorrows.Â
Editor's Pick
I don’t have a choice to remain silent: Safoora Zargar
For Safoora Zargar, a Muslim student leader, hardly a day goes by​ without online abuse from India's right-wing trolls for her dissent against Modi's Hindutva regime. But none of it...
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Features
Masrat Zahra: An award-winning Kashmiri journalist’s haunting past
Although, Zahra is longing to return home and to be with her family she is uncertain about the decision. "I want to work there [as a journalist like earlier] but considering the situation [in Kashmir], they won’t let me and then I also won’t be able to come out of the [Valley]," she said.
Features
“Coup”: Journalists shocked after police aided takeover of Kashmir Press Club
On Saturday, there was an unusual presence of police and paramilitary outside the Kashmir Press Club (KPC), located in the Posh Polo view market. An armored white ambassador pulled...
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Features
UP: 212 hate crimes against Muslims since Yogi came to power, impunity remains high
After Yogi government came to power in 2017, at least 212 hate crimes against Muslims have been reported in UP
Features
Why is Kashmiri journalist Sajad Gul in Jail?
Sajad Gul, a journalist with The Kashmirwala has been arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police days after he posted a video of women raising anti-India slogans following the...
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Features
“All lies,” says family of Kashmiri teenager held by NIA
On 30 December, NIA carried out a search at Arsalan Feroz's residence in Srinagar's Zaldagar area and later detained him.Â
Features
Running a dirty poll campaign: Vilifying Muslim politicians and demeaning Muslim terms
As the campaign for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections heats up, major politicians are boldly using "Muslim" terms to gain entry into the state. Major BJP leaders are attempting to project themselves as "nationalist Hindu" leaders.Â
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Features
Kashmir: Three Gujjar men booked under PSA, families in limbo
In Gabpathri, a hamlet with Gujjar settlements in the thick forests and jagged mountains of Bandipora, Kashmir, the villagers are in shock after three men among them were arrested...
Features
Political satirists agonize spiking right-wing attacks
“I was all excited to open for Faruqui, never met him before but admired his work. Suddenly, when a few people stopped our show and targeted Faruqui, I stood...
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Features
Dire need for an Anti-Islamophobia Act in India
Speaking to Maktoob, Political Anthropologist Sharib Ali said that India needs an anti- islamophobia law that pays attention to the context of hate against Muslims in India.
Features
Reading ‘Midnight’s Borders’
‘The Dog of Tithwal’ is a short story by Sadat Hasan Manto. It stands out for its brutal yet subtle metaphors of partitioned lives in the post-colonial/post-partition Indian subcontinent....
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