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Jauhar & the Politics of Distraction: How the Right and so-called liberals often complement each other
The selectiveness of medieval Muslim or medieval Rajput history in contestation is not just deliberate effort to alienate these two communities but is also a Brahmanical viewpoint that refuses to subject Peshwa or Maratha history to a similar brand of selectivity
7,020 individuals and 63 organisations demand justice for Araria rape survivor
Sign petition to Patna HC Chief Justice asking for release of the survivor and two women’s rights activists who were jailed by a lower court judge for ‘contempt of court’
Kerala nun rape case: Court dismisses Bishop Mulakkal’s discharge plea
Mulakkal has been charged with rape, unnatural sex, wrongful confinement and criminal intimidation.
Sedition charges against 51 including transgender activist for chanting pro-Sharjeel slogans
Organisers of the LGBT Pride solidarity meet where the slogans were raised have issued a statement dissociating themselves from those who raised the slogans
Mumbai Pride: Thousands stand in solidarity against CAA, NPR-NRC
The Queer Azaadi Mumbai Pride 2020 witnessed thousands of Queer people and allies, assembled under the rainbow flag, raising slogans of equality, diversity and freedom.
I never felt anything about my daughter was ‘different’: Chitra Palekar
Parents of LGBT+ children have their own journey of acceptance and inspiration
Mumbai Police denies permission for Queer Pride Parade!
Claims they have information that protesters against CAA and NRC will join the pride and raise anti-government slogans.
How NRC further marginalises Transgender people
Often abandoned by their biological families, transgender people grow up amidst others like themselves, but always largely outside the system, and hence rarely have any documents
Unnao rape case: Sengar’s sentence hearing adjourned to December 20
The Delhi District Court today, heard submissions to decide upon the quantum of sentence to be given to ex-MLA of BJP, Kuldeep Sengar, for being convicted on charges of rape under IPC as well as under POCSO.
This is Not the Justice We Seek
We awoke today to the shocking news of the deaths of the four suspects in the murder and rape of the veterinarian last week. They were killed at 3 am purportedly while trying to ‘escape’ from the scene of crime, where they had been taken for a dead-of-night reconstruction of the crime of rape and murder at the scene of the offence.
Who killed the Hyderabad rape accused?
This is not the first time that guns and the bullet have been used to get at those labelled criminals. For Sajjanar, handling the high profile rape case of Hyderabad veterinary doctor, of the three ‘encounters’ of non-Maoists in Telangana in 10 years, two were led by the same cop
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