Opinion

Any increase in vote share of Akhilesh Yadav’s SP and Mayawati’s BSP means decrease in BJP’s vote share.

Every year on 14th August, friends turned Hindutva activists would wish me “azaadi”. I know it has become normalised for Indian Muslims. It is one of the ways that the Hindutva brigade and like-minded citizens mock Indian Muslims and want to make us realise that we should be on the other side on the Indo-Pak border, that we don’t belong here. This year was no different. Now I have stopped replying to these kinds of slurs. I have stopped proving myself “Indian” to them. I’ve just stopped engaging on this issue. 

This article is in response to Alice Evans’s article titled Will the BJP’s plan for a Uniform Civil Code save Muslim women? published on Feb 03, 2021. As evident from...

Propaganda and policy geared towards the saving of Muslim women has occupied a very central position in the politics of BJP.

Over the past few years, the temporal and spatial occurrences of such Islamophobic gatherings have proliferated.

The diversity and racism in professional football have been much discussed. Apart from that, this piece looks at how diverse is the group of men standing in the dugouts, managers. 

The DNA Profiling Bill (officially known as the DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2019) is yet another draconian legislation in the making, which has urgent implications on questions of justice, privacy, and rule of law in India.

Uttar Pradesh Law Commission released a draft of “The Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, stabilization, and welfare) Bill 2021” (hereafter referred to as ‘the Bill’) is an attack on the rights of the marginalized groups (women, disabled and minority), privacy, with no rationale and manifestly vague.

Make no mistake, there is overwhelming public support to these population control laws in India, especially from educated Indian middle class, which assumes that India’s every social and economic problem can be solved through population control measures, rather than addressing root causes of growing reasons of growing income inequality and social backwardness of various lower caste and religious communities. Yet, the popular discourse still makes us believe that population control measures are a ‘magical wand’ to solve each and every problem faced by marginalised and under-privileged communities.

(Warning: Abusive texts are quoted in this article. It might be triggering for some readers.) The spectacle of the auctioning of Muslim women online that appears to be one...

Since the liberalization of the Indian economy, the middle class has only heard of the promises of the Neoliberal state made to them and has been aspiring for a...

It would be naïve to view the Sulli Deals or similar objectification of the “Other” women merely from a gender lens. A historical analysis that puts into perspective the sexualisation of racism will help us to interconnect multiple different incidents like claims of love jihad, population jihad, hyper-masculine jingoism, metaphorising of women as the nation, sexualisation of both Muslim women and men that currently seem to be distinct and unrelated.