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Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai
Students who marched from Nashik are denied Azad Maidan protest, prevented from leaving Tilak Bhavan and forcefully transported out of the city
Riot book authors meet Delhi Police Commissioner, file complaint against Bloomsbury and others
Authors’ allegations include cheating, breach of trust etc against the publishers, as well as activists, writers and journalists
Facebook and Delhi Violence: State Assembly committee receives further evidence of culpability
Committee of Peace and Harmony to summon Facebook officials in the next meeting following mounting evidence by independent journalists of the company’s involvement in Delhi riots.
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
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