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From caste to race: Reading ‘Black & Buddhist’ through an Indian lens
A few days ago, while visiting a local library in a relatively small town on the eastern coast of the United States, the person who took me there asked...
How caste hegemony has meant boycott for 17 families over inter-caste marriage: Gujarat
Seventeen families of the barber (Nai) caste in Gujarat’s Bhiloda taluka of Aravalli district have been facing a brute social boycott by privileged castes after a young man from the community married one from their caste
Independent Views, Gender Orientation must not affect candidacy for judgeship: SC
Making public the union government's objections to recent recommendations by the Supreme Court (SC) Collegium, the latter has reiterated its earlier choices and recommended the elevation of 17 advocates and three judicial officers as judges of the high courts of Karnataka, Allahabad and Madras.
If you kill one of us, we will kill thousands of yours: Bajrang Dal
This statement was made in retaliation to the murder of one of its workers in Assam whereby it has claimed that the murderers were “jihadis”
WFI leadership accused of sexual harassment by Indian women wrestlers, absence of redressal mechanisms the focus
The culture of harassment and impunity within WFI is underlined as Indian women wrestlers demonstrate outside Jantar Mantar
Hindu College, denies entry to students wearing burqas, sparks protests: UP
The chief proctor of a college in Moradabad, which recently implemented a "strict dress code," has stated that students wearing burqas will not be allowed entry to the campus. He added that they can remove the burqa and wear it again after stepping out of the campus.
Close to a month after ‘Pathaan’ hysteria, Modi cautions his partymen
Speaking the national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the prime minister obliquely reprimanded his aggressive party voices
Muslim man beaten on board a train in UP, booked for sexual harassment
Asim even spoke to the media and said he was beaten only because someone said “all mullas are thieves”
K’taka: Bajrang Dal allegedly demonstrated outside a mosque
They were apparently protesting the arrest of one of its members, Nitesh, in connection with harassing a minor Muslim girl in Karnataka’s Chikkamagaluru
Moral policing: Mob assaults a young man for talking to a girl in MP
FIR has been filed by the victim, reportedly a Muslim, claiming he was beaten for talking to a girl
Mohan Bhagwat: Distorted History-Sectarian Agenda
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