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Tribals in a Jharkhand village denied access to drinking water from the common well

The reporter who highlighted this issue has been booked for reporting this and interviewing the tribal community.

Firozabad District Court: Conviction delivered 4 decades after massacre of 10 Dalits

9 out of 10 accused deceased, remaining 90- year-old sentenced to life imprisonment

Protesting farmers block the highway to Delhi in Haryana’s Kurukshetra

Farm leaders from Haryana, Punjab, UP and other neighboring states had gathered at the Pipli grain market for the 'MSP Dilao, Kisan Bachao' mahapanchayat to press their demand.

A ‘Garbh Sanskar’ event by the RSS “teaches” pregnant women birth ‘Sanskari’, ‘Deshbhakt’ Babies

Though occupying a constitutional post, even the Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan remained present at the event and said that pregnant women should chant 'Sunderkand', and read the 'Bhagavad Gita', 'Ramayana', and 'Mahabharata' to have mentally and physically sound babies.

‘Aurangzeb ki auladen ‘, a term for Indian Muslims or high caste Hindus?

Tyrannical as the rule of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb may have been, when he targeted Sufis, Shia Muslims and Hindus alike, its stability and that of the entire Mughal Dynasty depended on the political and social support of privileged (high) caste Hindus

What lies behind the latest Islamophobic slur ‘#Gaming jihad’?

A lone case of alleged forced conversion in Ghaziabad through an online gaming app unleashes hate - #Gaming Jihad’ is the latest epithet that adds to a long line of previous slurs, #CoronoJihad, #PopulationJihad, #Land Jihad, #Madrassa Jihad

Warning or threat, accused MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh sends ‘message’ to BJP’s top brass: UP

‘The main motive is to tell PM Modi and Amit Shah that he is in a position to damage the BJP’s prospects in Kaisarganj, Gonda, Balrampur, Faizabad and Shravasti constituencies’ and it is this political clout that he still carries a close associate of the MP told The Telegraph in Lucknow.

Chokhamela’s Bhakti: the past transforms into a radical present

A poet-philosopher of an inclusive tradition, Chokhamela experienced the bitter exclusion of caste, yet persisted in his questioning spirituality, adding to the rich variety in this centuries’old tradition, the Warkari (Varkari) devotional movement of Maharashtra

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