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Polynomial Politics: Imagining India as 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 and Shaj Mohan, edited by Maël Montévil, published in April 2024. At...

“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...

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...

Unending exodus: Crackdown pushes India’s Rohingya refugees to flee

On July 01, 2022, Nur Hafez and his family crossed Indo-Bangladesh once again to return to Cox’s Bazar, where nearly a million Rohingyas like him are living in the...

Family of slain Kashmiri cop alleges army men shot him

On October 31, Uzma Gul, 20, was cleaning her house when she heard some gunshots. After speeding up apprehensively, she found her father, Ghulam Mohammad Dar, lying in a...
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Assam woman declared ‘foreigner’ 6 years ago gets reinstated as Indian citizen

On October 7, when Dulabjan Begum came out of a Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) office in Assam’s Silchar town, her tears did not stop streaming down her cheeks. “These are...

UAPA: Strange relationship between saffron party and anti-terror law

The date, September 13, marks three years of Umar Khalid's incarceration under the Unlawful Activities Act (UAPA), a colonial-era draconian law. He was charged under the UAPA in...
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Supplementary chargesheet filed against Rupesh Kumar by NIA; wife says he remains jailed for his courageous journalism

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), on 14 October, has filed a supplementary chargesheet against jailed journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh in connection with an alleged case related to Naxal activities in Bihar under sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a Special Court.

“We lost contact,” says family of Kashmiri woman stranded in Gaza Strip

It has been more than 24 hours since Fatima has heard from her only daughter Lubna Nazir as she is stranded in Gaza amid the recent Israel-Palestine conflict. Now...
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They made me a story: Rana Ayyub on media suppression, Muslim assertion in Modi’s India

Acclaimed journalist and author Rana Ayyub speaks to Maktoob about how she became the "story and storyteller" of the current India.

In Satara, Muslims targeted by Hindu mob, unable to reopen livelihood amid boycott calls by Hindutva groups

Muslims in the violence-hit Pussessawali village of Satara allege that they are being forcibly evicted from rented houses owned by Hindus. Small-scale businesses owned by Muslims are facing adverse impacts.
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Navigating life as a Dalit student

I believe I wouldn't have the ability to write a single word if I hadn't received an education. The reality of my life is that I am a Dalit,...

“We waited 14 years for him”: Mother of Muslim teenager lynched in Jaipur

Mohammad Iqbal, a 17-year-old Muslim boy was lynched to death by an alleged Hindu mob after he was involved in a bike accident with a Hindu in the capital...
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“Hate killed our brother,” say sisters of Muslim man lynched by Hindu mob in Delhi

On Tuesday, September 26, a Hindu mob lynched to death Mohammad Ishaq, a 23-year-old Muslim man, alleging that he had eaten prasad from a makeshift temple tent in Sundar Nagri, Northeast Delhi.

“I wish I had died in Myanmar”: Recurring crackdowns break Rohingyas in India

Zehra is among around 7,000 Rohingya refugees living in Jammu and Kashmir's Bathindi Jammu. Even as the recent crackdown on Rohingya Refugees has caused clutter in India, nothing has improved.
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