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Four years of Delhi Pogrom: Shabnam’s story of resilience | Women’s Day Special
Shabnam Nafisa Kalim saw the funeral procession of dozens of Muslims killed during the 2020 Delhi pogrom through the window of her house in Mustafabad. When the COVID-19 lockdown after less than a month of violence broke the community, Shabnam swung into action.
India
Documentary | Recalling Babri
In November 2019, the Supreme Court of India ruled that the site in Ayodhya in northern India, where Hindutva mobs destroyed Babri Masjid, a 460-year-old mosque in 1992, must be handed over to a trust to oversee the construction of a Hindu temple.
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Burning Qur’an is sign of unfreedom, not freedom, says Dr. Irfan Ahmad
On 3 August, 2023, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) interviewed political anthropologist Irfan Ahmad about the Quran burning issue in Denmark and West in general. The interview, conducted in the corridor of his office at Ibn Haldun University, Turkey, was about many issues, including, "why does the burning of the Quran spark anger within the Muslim world," freedom of speech, the proposal by the Danish Prime Minister to ban the Qur’ān burning and so on.
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Video: “Our fight for honour, dignity will continue regardless,” says Mehbooba Mufti after SC verdict on Article 370
“The people of J&K are not going to lose hope or give up. Our fight for honour and dignity will continue regardless. This isn’t the end of the road for us,” said former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti soon after the Supreme Court upheld the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution.
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Video: Art exhibition of displaced children in Gaza
Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has shared a video of an art exhibition by displaced children in Gaza....
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Video from Gaza: ‘Free world, where are you?’
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has released a video showing the director of the Gaza European Hospital, Youssef al-Akkad, sending a message to the world with bodies of six infants killed in Israeli bombing in front of him.
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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.
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Video: Watch Messi’s last-minute debut goal for Inter Miami
"The Messi experience has arrived," Major League Soccer tweeted as Lionel Messi scored on a free kick from about 25 yards in the 94th minute in his debut game...
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‘Hindutva Pandemic’ documentary exposes right wing ideology’s role in Leicester unrest
A recently released documentary from Maktoob Originals, titled 'Hindutva Pandemic,' exposes the role of Hindutva in inciting the 2022 unrest in the city of Leicester, UK.
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Video: Tughlakabad demolition drive leaves thousands of families homeless
Last week, about 2.5 lakh people were rendered homeless after the demolition of nearly 1,000 homes in New Delhi's Tughlakabad. Despite the Delhi High Court direction, no rehabilitation plan...
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Video: Sarus crane overwhelmed as rescuer Arif visits it in zoo
A video of Uttar Pradesh farmer Mohammad Arif visiting the Sarus crane he had befriended after rescuing it a year ago is making waves on the internet. The bird...
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“No other option”: MGNREGA workers protesting over a month against throttling scheme
For over a month, MGNREGA workers from across the country have joined a sit-in protest in New Delhi's Jantar Mantar against app-based attendance, and budget cuts among other issues.
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A year like a decade of punishment: GN Saibaba’s wife Vasantha
When the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted former Delhi University Professor G N Saibaba and five others in October 2022, Vasantha Kumari didn’t leave for Maharashtra...
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Interview | “Plan to curtail civil society,” says Hany Babu’s wife Jenny Rowena
Jenny Rowena, the wife of jailed Delhi University professor Hany Babu, laments the situation of prisons in India and accuses that, as a society, we failed to have a social ethos that never undermines prisoners' rights.
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Betrayed and broken: Joshimanth locals wait for permanent solution
When cracks appeared on Sunaina Saklani's house in Joshimath a year ago, her father filed an application for help from authorities. But he was ridiculed saying it was the...
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He is in jail not for himself but for the nation: Umar Khalid’s mother
Jailed human rights activist Umar Khalid's mother, Dr Sabiha Khanum, recalls the anxious week she spend with her son who was home after getting an interim bail to attend his sister's marriage.
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Video: How did Okhla become the largest segregated Muslim enclave in Delhi?
Sneha Richhariya, Sejal Patel, Tej Prakash, Faizah Ayyub Mir
Close to 7 Lakh people live in Okhla, a Muslim-majority residential area in South Delhi. Densely populated residential apartments, decaying and...
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