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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...
BJP MLA Raja Singh uses anti-Muslim slurs, targets Muslims, encourages violence at rally permitted by Bombay High Court
Even after submitting an undertaking stating that no hate speech will be made at the rally, Singh made inflammatory comments while addressing an audience of thousands, BJP MLA Geeta Jain plays supporting role
Rajasthan: Muslim teachers suspended for ‘love-jihad’, as students allege they were made to falsely testify
After the government suspended two Muslim government school teachers on the basis of a memorandum submitted to the education minister by a local Hindutva organisation, videos of students have emerged where they can be seen claiming that they were asked to testify ‘wrongly’
Another student lost to suicide at IIT-Delhi
The incident where 24 year old MTech student allegedly committed suicide at the IIT-Delhi. The incident comes as India’s premier institutes, the IITs, continue to be criticised as hostile places for students from marginalised backgrounds
Communal brainwashing to hate and kill: Zeherkhurani, a Hindi novel by Nirmala Bhuradia
The recently published novel Zeherkhurani (Samayik Prakashan, Delhi, 2023) by Nirmala Bhuradia depicts the horrendous implications of putting religion to the worst abuse in the pursuit of remorselessly divisive power politics. Bhuradia is an Indore-based fiction writer and journalist (associated with a Hindi periodical of Indore, Nai Duniya) and a known name in the Hindi literary world.
Mumbai: Senior doctor asked to chant Jai Sri Ram by cab driver
A senior Muslim doctor based in Mumbai’s Haji Ali was asked to chant Jai Sri Ram if he wanted to take the ride. Furthermore, a Muslim rickshaw driver was beaten, robbed, and forced to chant Jai Sri Ram in Mumbra earlier this week.
Modi’s engagements with Temple Events is not Decolonisation
The recent (January 22, 2024) Pran Pratishtha (consecration) of Lord Ram...
Social welfare department intervenes after Dalit youth faces discrimination, denied hair cut in Karnataka
A Dalit youth had to receive an ordinary service like a haircut under police protection in Kadanur village in Doddaballapur in Karnataka this week
I am Rani Chennamma Too! Kittur Declaration asks women to fight for land and people, women’s dignity, and livelihood
Naanoo Rani Chennamma! मैं भी रानी चेनम्मा हूँ the campaign calls for a non-violent fight against tyranny and autocracy: Commemorating 200 Years of Courageous Resistance against British Imperialism
Telangana: Christian cemetery attacked a week after Dalit Churchgoers were attacked
The cemetery was attacked in Telangana’s Secunderabad and saw gravestones and the Christian religious symbol, the cross being desecrated and broken
Gujarat: 108 shrines demolished in Gujarat
The state Home Minister in Gujarat claims to have seen a ‘conspiracy’ where suddenly shrines are turning up in the state, as he demands for budget allocation and asserts that 108 shrines have been destroyed in the state.
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