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Between Celebration and Suspicion: How Bakri Eid passed across india in 2026
With police deployments, cattle regulations, housing society disputes and political mobilisation surrounding Eid-ul-Adha, the festival reflected the tensions of contemporary India
Muzaffarnagar riots: Case closed against BJP MLA accused of circulating inflammatory video
The closure report was filed by SIT and the complainant, a cop, was killed in a mob attack in 2018
MP Assembly passes ‘anti-love Jihad’ law by voice vote
Reportedly, the law was passed amidst continued opposition from the Congress
Haryana: RTI reply reveals four ‘love jihad’ cases, no conviction over three years
Out of the four cases, two were cancelled by the Police, a third was acquitted by a court and the fourth case is pending
Every citizen of India is Hindu, or so claims UP CM Yogi Adityanath
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath makes claims all Indians are “Hindu” while accusing the Congress party of indulging in divisive politics in Kerala.
Revisiting Northeast Delhi a year after the February 2020 pogrom
Senior activists, lawyers and experts working on-ground with Delhi pogrom survivors discuss with SabrangIndia the progress, or the lack of it, in the case of communal attacks in Northeast Delhi
UP Assembly passes anti-religious conversion Bill amid opposition
This 2021 Bill seeks to replace the Ordinance promulgated in November last year that makes conversion a non bailable and cognisable offence
Delhi HC seeks response in plea seeking quashing of DMC’s report on Delhi riots
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta representing the Centre said that these reports need to be examined
Battleground Bengal: Communal hues grow darker
From rath yatras, to pitting deities, there’s nothing the BJP won’t do to consolidate its vote bank of supremacists
Truth has been hijacked to serve political interests: Brinda Karat on Delhi violence
On Tuesday, the Left organisation remembered the atrocities suffered by residents of Northeast Delhi and condemned the central government for stifling dissent.
Mob Lynching in 2020: Misleading Exception than a Norm
Excerpts from a piece that appeared originally in Secular Perspective, February 16-28, 2021 edition
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