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After NEET protests ended, the battle moved online: Women protesters face threats, doxing and criminalisation
From demands for accountability over a paper leak to attacks on protesters’ identities, the aftermath of the movement raises questions about dissent, gendered harassment and the State’s response to democratic protest
Remembering Kandhamal
After travelling to Gujarat following the pogrom of 2002, I began inquiring into Hindu nationalist mobilisations in Odisha
Progressive Students’ Forum raises concern over TISS registrar’s ‘communal’ social media posts
After students write open letter expressing concerns over registrar’s alleged communal tweets, he deletes account
Secularism and its importance to the ‘majority’
Let us judge people by their contributions to the nation and the global family instead of a personal matter like faith
Communal and Targeted Violence Bill: Why it must be codified into law
Re-plug: Originally published in November 2011, we are revisiting this piece as we remember the Kandhamal carnage and other acts of targeted violence against minorities
Kandhamal 2020: We live with the national shame of impunity in perpetuity
From the mass murder of Christians in Kandhamal to the killing of Graham Staines, Christian minorities remain at peril
BJP MLA’s communal Facebook posts finally removed
Posts by Shiladitya Dev sparked hatred against Bangaldeshi-Muslims in Assam
Dialed 100 repeatedly, got no answer: Delhi riot survivor
Amnesty International India reveals horrors recalled by survivors of the communal violence that raged in North East Delhi
Are Kashi-Mathura mosques in the crosshairs of hardliners again?
Sudhir Singh, a UP politician, says he would have 'liberated' Kashi Vishwanath temple had the lockdown not played spoilsport
Delhi HC stays broadcast of Suresh Chavhanke’s ‘UPSC Jihad’ show
Notice also issued to the Centre, UPSC, Sudarshan News channel and its Editor-in-Chief Chavhanke
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