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Did Indian Democracy fail Father Stan Swamy?
Five years after Father Stan Swamy's death, his life continues to ask difficult questions of India's democracy.Speaking at a memorial meeting in Bandra, Mumbai, Teesta Setalvad reflects on the...
‘Don’t forget Gujarat’: Pro-CAA supporters warn protestors at a BJP rally in Kerala
The pro-CAA supporters shouted provocative slogans as they marched at a ‘Save the Country’ public meet by the BJP
Bengal BJP chief unfazed by 2 FIRs
Dilip Ghosh booked under charges of hate speech on complaints by TMC leaders
She hit me so much that the helmet broke”: Pawan Rao Ambedkar on UP police
The activist who was released on bail last week, wasn’t even a part of the protest but was brutally attacked by the Lucknow cops
CAA is first big step towards Savarkar’s Akhand Hindu-Rashtra
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) is being vaguely labelled as...
Blowing in the Wind
First published on January 16, 2016Image: Salim Shaikh Jamalpur ke...
In a first, BJP leader, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi objects to the ‘Go to Pakistan’ slogan for Indian Muslims
Pakistan and ‘suspect loyalties to India’ have always been used by the supremacist right wing to beat and bait Indian Muslims with
Terror has been repeatedly unleashed on JNU, lest we forget the disappearance of young Najeeb, and several times before
The questions of the young that clearly rattle this regime have made them repeat victims of brute violent assault: from the police and the ABVP. Hate and targeted speech has been systematically used to make them special targets; JNU and its student leadership have borne the brunt of physical blows and assaults on more than a dozen occasions in the past six and a half years
After silencing protests by violence, UP starts implementing CAA
Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh unleashed the worst of police atrocities on its people; those who were protesting as well as those who were not. Yet, undeterred by public resentment, the state has started process for implementing CAA.
Enactment of the CAA has sparked a primordial fear among Muslims
Structural Violence deepens roots of Communal violence in India: the enactment of the CAA has sparked a primordial fear among Muslims, who see the government’s meddling with citizenship laws as nothing short of an existential threat.
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