Thursday, March 28, 2024

Features

“Lost all hope of ever living in clean habitat,” say residents of Delhi’s Rangpuri Pahari

Batto sits on her haunches, overlooking the flooded home made out of old worn-out bricks. The 72-year-old, who goes by her first name, laments the plight her family has to...

Interview: Kashmiri historian Hafsa Kanjwal accuses India of memoricide, repression

Human rights groups and United Nations experts have repeatedly warned against India's crackdown on the civil liberties of...

“Worse human rights violation than murder”: How an aspiring wildlife photographer was tortured to death in Kerala university

The torture to death case of JS Sidharthan, a second year student inside the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University’s men’s hostel has become a center point of news in Kerala. 

I don’t want to die, so I decided to fight: Dr Ritu Singh 

I have decided to fight because I am fully aware of their evil plans. I decided not to surrender to them and fight till justice is served.  I don’t want to die, I want to fight for survival.

Family of Kashmiri man deceived into joining Russian army appeal for assistance in bringing him home

"Take me back home," Azad Yousuf repeated over a video call on WhatsApp to his brother. The 31-year-old...

600 days into hunger strike; Kerala coastal village continues protest against ‘eviction’

Despite the 600 days long protest started in 29, October 2019, neither the demand to reconstruct the Kochi-Chellanam coast nor the installation of groynes were implemented by the ruling government

Kashmir: How two breadwinners became casualties?

Two policemen and two civilians were killed during the shootout between Indian forces and suspected militants. However, local residents accused police of targetting the civilians.
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Kerala: ‘Grave concern’ over 67 year old UAPA prisoner’s health

a 67-year-old left activist has been imprisoned in Viyyur central jail for alleged Maoist links for the past six years. Denied bail, parole, and speedy trial, Ibrahim, who was booked under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), is suffering from a severe case of diabetes and cardiac issues. Though he takes 22 tablets every day, the diabetes is still not under control.

Thousand days, no evidence; Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan remains in jail

Calls are growing for the immediate release of Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan, who on May 25th (Tuesday) completed 1000 days in prison. Journalists and activists in Kashmir and globally have urged the authorities to free Sultan who they say is being punished for doing journalism.
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Urdu under Hindutva rule: Dr Rizwan Ahmad says ‘languages are proxy for people’

Hindu nationalists, since the late 19th century, have projected Urdu as a foreign language. This over a century-long political and cultural campaign has led to the marginalization of Urdu...

Though ‘there is no guarantee of life in Gaza,’ stranded Palestinians in India longing for home

“Sitting by the sea in Gaza, eating Humus and falafel with friends, listening to patriotic music – Al – Taghreba al- Falastenya (Palestinian Alienation), are amongst my best memories of home”, says Ali Abushbak a Palestinian national residing in India.
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“Our loved ones were being forced to live in inhuman conditions during pandemic,” family & friends of BK-16

Family members and comrades of the accused in Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, serving as under-trial prisoners in Mumbai’s Taloja and Byculla jails, demanded the release of all political prisoners at a virtual press conference on Saturday. Their exhortation comes due to a lack of healthcare workers to treat the inmates during the pandemic.

How a Muslim woman is helping arrange cremations for COVID-19 patients in Lucknow

Azra Mobin has been through a whirlwind of emotions in the past few weeks. The 35-year old social worker in Lucknow, while fasting during Ramadan, has arranged the cremation of around 7-8 COVID-19 patients who had no one to cremate them.
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Digital disparities become determinants of vaccine coverage

Online facilitation of the COVID-19 vaccine process leaves behind the poor beneficiaries, widening the digital divide in the country.

‘Doctors on Road’ brings health to the homes of the marginalised

The initiative “Doctors on Road”, the brainchild of Dr. Kafeel Khan and Dr. Harjit Singh Bhatti was conceived after realising the appalling conditions of the marginalised communities living in the hinterlands of the cities after the second wave struck India in mid-April.
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Bed, bigotry and Islamophobia; The tale Of ‘Bengaluru bed scam’

The people who were targeted were young in their earlier 20s looking for a job, being bread winners and labelled as terrorist are now uncertain of their future, the police have threatened them a lot.

UAPA prisoner Rauf Shareef’s wife -mother of 22 days old girl- says UP police framed her husband

“They will always hunt down people who fight for justice," says Fathima Bathool, wife of Campus Front of India national general secretary Rauf Shareef who was arrested initially by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for money laundering and then later was charged under draconian UAPA by Uttar Pradesh police, accusing of stirring unrest in Hathras following the caste killing of a Dalit woman.
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