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Telangana State Elections: Polarising voters doesn’t yield results for BJP, key leaders lose seats

sabrangindia - December 5, 2023

Only serial hate speaker T. Raja Singh able to retain his seat, taste of defeat on four seats for the party

Rajasthan: Newly elected BJP MLA from Hawa Mahal constituency, Bal Mukund Acharya launches assault on minority-run meat food stalls

sabrangindia - December 5, 2023

In complete violation of constitutional principles and the Rajasthan law that regulates vendors, Bal Mukund Acharya, who won the election with a narrow margin of 974 votes, was seen moving around the Muslim majority, Hawa Mahal constituency trying to bully policemen to "shut down" Unlicensed stalls selling non-vegetarian delicacies. A video of him doing this before having been sworn in as a member of the newly elected state assembly went viral on social media last night.

Minorities

Dr Kafeel Khan booked again, this time over book ‘inciting people, creating division’

sabrangindia - December 4, 2023

In September 2020, the Allahabad High Court revoked charges under National Security Act (NSA) against Khan, and ordered to immediately release him as he had been in a Mathura jail for nearly six months.

Communalism

Unveiling the Alleged Link: Halal Products and Anti-National Funding

CJP Research Team - December 4, 2023

The recent ban of sale, manufacture and distribution of halal products in Uttar Pradesh has raised an uproar across social media. However, several right-wing groups and leaders have been advocating for a ban on halal goods by arguing that it funds a “parallel economy.” Is this true? Let's find out.

India

Delhi’s Sunder nursery basti demolished, residents displaced

sabrangindia - December 4, 2023

As part of plans for gentrification drive, the basti located near Delhi’s Sundar nursery was recently demolished, rendering hundreds of people homeless and without shelter in decreasing temperatures.

Media

Stop treating journalists like terrorists, media unions tell government as the 17th Lok Sabha begins

sabrangindia - December 4, 2023

Release jailed editors, drop criminal charges, stop muzzling media through draconian laws, and enact a law to protect journalists from persecution: NAJ, DUJ, KUJ and others; several unions of working journalists have appealed strongly for enactment of a law to protect media persons from false prosecutions and enactment of the Wage Board and establishment of a Media Commission of India

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Fact-finding report alleges UP police protecting men suspected of beheading Dalit woman

sabrangindia - December 4, 2023

A 40-year-old Dalit woman was found dead, chopped in three pieces, at a flour mill she used to work at. A fact-finding report points out that the police appear to be in a hurry to cover the incident up and designate it as an accident, and seem to be protecting the accused from charges of murder.

Hate Speech

Demonising the Madrasa is insulting India’s freedom fighters

ABHAY KUMAR - December 4, 2023

BJP Member of Parliament and the Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh is known for giving controversial, even provocative statements. Recently, he has claimed...

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Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger

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The author, a student in Bengaluru, asks why Dalit suffering is more readily received than Dalit anger in literature, cinema and public life. Is it because sorrow allows readers and viewers to remain sympathetic observers, while anger and refusal can challenge that comfortable distance?

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Prioritise ecological security of country over “false narrative” of “highway development”: CCG to Govt & Courts

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Former bureaucrats protest the “steady lowering of statutory safeguards for protecting India’s Environment and Forests” in an open letter to the government; both government and the judiciary need to prioritise the ecological security of our country and the health and life of its citizens over the false narrative of more roads, more buildings, more townships, more mines, more industries, more destruction of the natural world that is currently seen as progress.

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