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When Suspicion Becomes Deportation: The case of Sahida Fakir and the dangerous criminalisation of Bengali identity
A woman who left home to buy dinner was detained, taken across state lines and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh despite her family producing a birth certificate, voter ID, school records and land documents
How a battle is being waged within India’s forests, for rights over land and resources
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A real life battle is on in those lands over which forest dwellers and Adivasis ought to have control but where state and corporate interests intrude
Long way to go before promises are kept to India’s LGBTQIA+ communities
The legal win for decriminalising homosexuality in India is just the beginning of the ongoing struggle for LGBTQIA+ rights.
Poster-boy of ‘Hindutva’, Assam CM targets, Himanto Biswas Sarma threatens ex-US President with Islamophobic Slur: ‘Hussain Obama’
Barrack Obama had earlier said that if US President Joe Biden meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi, then the protection of the Muslim minority in a majority Hindu India is 'something worth mentioning.'
Haryana: Abusing Gandhi, Nehru, Muslims in one breath, saffron-clad mendicant at VHP-Bajrang Dal meet
The speaker, one Shivanand Maharaj, said that killing of thousands for protecting religion, women and cows is justified in Hindu scriptures
FIR filed against Chavhanke at Sangamner for his communal speech, which had resulted in violence and vandalism
In an invitation video put up by him, he had said that he was going to Sangamner to stop the “Islamification” of the city.
UP: 2 Dalit Undertrials ‘Commit Suicide’ in Sultanpur Jail Premises, Families Allege Foul Play
The families have accused the police of torturing their sons to death.
Pride Month 2023: One-of-a-kind events, parades throughout urban and rural India to celebrate diversity and inclusivity
'This home is for you, me, him, her, they, them'’- LGBTQIA+ community celebrating pride month across in India
A protest march ‘Sakal Bharatiya Samaj’ counters hateful propaganda in Kalyan
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People from Dalit and OBC communities participated in large numbers in this march as there were attempts being made to cause a rift between them
RW extremist pulls out religious board at Biryani restaurant in Bengaluru, calls it “Pakistani”
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He was seen yelling at the staff and forcefully pulled the board out
UP: Yati Narsinghanand delivered provocative anti-Muslim hate speech, invoked Love-Jihad, temple demolition
He announced a ‘Hindu Bachao Morcha’, a group that will take revenge if any Hindu is killed by a Muslim
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