India
Elections 2024
Lok Sabha elections: Third phase of polling begins in 93 constituencies
The third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections began on Tuesday, with 93 parliamentary constituencies in 11 states and four Union territories going to polls.
East India
Who is Shahnawaz Ali Raihan, Oxford researcher, anti-CAA protester running on TMC ticket in Malda Dakshin?
Raihan is a doctoral fellow at Oxford University pursuing his DPhil from Oxford University’s St Antony’s College since 2018 under the supervision of noted historian Faisal Devji around “Between Marx and Muhammed-Muslims and Communism in Bengal” and has been a staunch critic and opponent of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
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.
Elections 2024
“BJP doesn’t want our vote or presence; Congress knows we have no choice. We vote for Congress out of necessitude,” Gujarat genocide survivors
Twenty-two years after the Muslim genocide in Gujarat, the Muslims of Gujarat still live in fear. The survivors of the Gujarat Muslim genocide told Maktoob that the BJP, which orchestrated the pogrom, neither wants their vote nor wants to see them, while the Congress understands that the Muslims have no other option. "We are voting for Congress out of necessity," say the survivors.
India
One year of ethnic violence in Manipur: Kuki-Zo Community Members in Hyderabad hold memorial gathering
With the ethnic violence in Manipur completing a year, the Hyderabad Unau Tribal Forum (HUTF), organised a commemorative event in solidarity with the victims on Friday.
South India
Eight years in Agrahara Jail awaiting justice
It was not one Zakaria whom they arrested branding as a terrorist. It was a whole family, relatives and friends who were ostracised after the blatant lies which came out in the mainstream newspapers, fed by the police.
India
Let the girls be [ Video ]
Every woman in India will relate to this video about how they hide themselves in public.
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India
YouTube terminates ‘Dalit Camera’ , the voice of Dalit Bahujans and Minorities
Activists posted in social media against the you tube's policy with the hashtag #BringBackDC and argued that the accusations of copyright infringement are baseless.
India
Protest gathering against Brutality on Najeeb’s Family in front of Delhi police headquarters
Almost three months after Najeeb Ahmad went missing from campus, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration and the Delhi Police have been inactive and biased on finding and ensuring justice to Najeeb and punishing ABVP culprits.
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India
Chalo Thiruvananthapuram ; Wipe Out Caste Colonies. Reconstruct the Kerala Model
After the inaugural programme at Chengara, a footmarch will begin from Kasargod on 01 April 2017 and will end in Thiruvananthapuram by the last week of May. The 'Chalo Thiruvananthapuram' footmarch that will cover Dalit- Adivasi- fishers' colonies and slums is hoped to evolve into a new democratic movement of the marginalised in Kerala.
India
Factual misrepresentation by UoH admin regarding the events of Rohith Shahadath Din
It was only under such pressure that the police released her after nearly 4 hours of detention. This is a mother who lost her son on this campus and just asked for a commemorative visit, which the university very harshly denied publicly
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India
Ambedkarite and Muslim organizations for Rohith Vemula in JNU Campus
Ambedkarite and Muslim organizations organized the ‘Resistance March’ against institutionalized Brahmanism in Jawaharlal Nehru University on Monday night, commemorating Rohith Vemula’s Shahadath Din.
India
Remembering Rohith; Police detain Radhika Vemula and Students
Telengana Police detain Radhika Vemula, mother of Rohith Vemula, Sudipto Mondal, journalist from Hindustan times, Vijay Kumar Ambedkar Pedapudi, one of the socially boycotted student and witch hunted along with Rohith and other student activists.
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India
‘One day you will find me in history.’ Rohith Vemula’s Poem
The Poem was written after Rohith Vemula first got involved in the campus turmoil.
South India
Witch-hunt by Kerala Police. Novelist ,slapped with sedition decided to burn his book
'' Day after tomorrow (Saturday), I will be burning by book in public at 4 pm at Kidson corner (in Kozhikode). I believe you will support and forgive me,'' he has said in the post today.
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South India
An Open Letter to Kerala CM by the mother of an allegedly suspected ‘maoist’
'' As you can understand, the above mentioned incidents have put me and my family under great fear and now, we are seriously concerned about my son’s future. Will my son get an immigration clearance to move out in the light of all that has happened? ''
India
Raja Vemula remembering his Brother Rohith Vemula
Rohit Anna, you forgot that...
without you:
We are helpless,
We are hopeless,
We miss ourselves and
We are, nothing but, meaningless.
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