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On 20 December 2019, the second week of passing India's anti-Muslim citizenship law, mass shooting and police crackdown happened across Uttar Pradesh killing at least 23 Muslims. It is...

For an evening, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh trembled as it witnessed a brush of violence that reminded the bloodied days from 2013. Chaos, gun shots, stampedes and arson made Muslims flee into the corners of the city. After a long night with police raids in Muslim localities, many were relieved to know only one life was taken.

“He saw a stampede and tried to escape. He was shot in his stomach,” Mohammed Raees's brother Mohammad Saeed told Maktoob.

As night fell in Rampur, an old Mughal city in Uttar Pradesh, news about killing spree in neighbouring cities had spread. Despite uncertainties and tensions, hundreds gathered in Rampur the next morning with courage. Fate had no mercy, the only Muslim majority district in the state felt the warth of opposing India's new citizenship amendment law.

The Maulana Azad Library in Deora village of Darbhanga District is an initiative taken up by young Sadiya with help from her family and friends to sow the seeds for inclusive education for all the students in the community who cannot afford the luxury of getting appropriate and established means of instruction.

The evident, outspoken revolutionary to a sharp- tongued rebel, a quintessentially fit athlete to a bloated addict, voice for the oppressed and the presence who made himself felt. Listless attributes and attainments, albeit the vices, lies the question, of how Diego Maradona, would etch himself in the history, the most polarising figure in football history, succumbing to a cardiac arrest, bidding adieu abruptly, at the age of 60.

A small carton sat on the coffee table with a note in Marathi. Three books for Hany Babu, an associate professor in the department of English of Delhi university, has been returned from Taloja jail in Mumbai. “What is their problem with books?” ask Jenny Rowena, wife of Hany Babu.

Syeda Anwara Taimur was appointed as the first lady Chief Minister on 6 December 1980. Taimur occupied the Chief Minister's office till June 1981. In the history of Assam, she remained the only female and Muslim Chief Minister of the State.

Beneath the iconic clock tower of Lal Chowk, Srinagar, Mir Suhail Qadiri sketches a pool of human targets. Suhail posted it with the hashtag #KashmiriLivesMatter - evoking the dangerous...

“Twitter is still not doing enough to tackle the deluge of abuse women face on the platform. Our analysis shows that despite some progress, Twitter is not doing enough to protect women users, leading many women to silence or censor themselves on the platform,” said Rasha Abdul Rahim, Co-Director of Amnesty Tech.

“I spoke to my parents about going to Guwahati to sit for the exam. Their answer was simply ‘No’. They are extremely worried and they only care about my health at this moment”, she added.

This is an excerpt from Cyclone Fani: Tracking Inclusion of Dalits, Adivasis, Minorities, and Other Marginalized Communities in Disaster Response, a study jointly undertaken by the National Dalit Watch (NCDHR) and Ambedkar Lohia Vichar Manch, Odisha.