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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...
Evicted, Accused, and Deleted: The shrinking space for Muslim citizenship
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From migrant workers and small vendors to university classrooms and electoral rolls, the architecture of suspicion –for the Indian Muslim--now stretches across everyday life
Odisha: 18 months, 54 incidents of communal hate crimes, 7 mob lynchings
Admitting to a spiral in communally driven hate crimes in eastern state of Odisha since June 2024 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a majoritarian outfit came to power, Odisha’s chief minister, Charan Majhi said on Monday, March 9 that 54 such incidents and seven mob lynchings were recorded in that state; this was in a written reply to the State Assembly
Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Bill: Legislating suspicion in the name of “love jihad”
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The proposed Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam, 2026 seeks to criminalise alleged forced conversions with harsh penalties and intrusive state oversight
Bidar, Karnataka: Two school teachers assaulted in Karnataka’s Bidar, triggering communal tensions
Two accused, unnamed by the police attacked two Muslim teachers at Basavakalyan in Karnataka’s Bidar district leading to widespread protests by the community
The Erosion of Equal Protection: Constitutional attrition and State apathy in targeted attacks on Kashmiri vendors across the states
Systemic 2025 and early 2026 vigilantism and attacks against Kashmiri sellers, fuelled by religious profiling and hateful propaganda, dismantles the constitutional "bedrock" of Articles 19(1)(d) and (g), by substituting "reasonable restrictions" with mob-enforced exoduses, these acts subvert state authority and corrode public morality
JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed
Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently
The Double Stage on Campus: Caste, crisis & UGC equity regulations (2026) controversy
This paper applies the theoretical concepts of the “scene”...
JNU: Former JNUSU President complains against Vice Chancellor’s casteist & racist remarks
Two complaints, one by former JNUSU president, Dhananjay and the second BY Suraj Kumar Baudh, an activist, take on Santishree D. Pandit, Vice-Chancellor of JNU for her recent casteist and racist comments
Making Waves: After inspiring swathes of peacemakers all over India, ‘Mohammed’ Deepak and his friend will launch a nationwide ‘Insaniyat Jodo Yatra’ to fight...
Unfettered by the attacks on himself and his friend after he intervened against Bajrang Dal hooliganism in Kotdwar, Uttarakhand, Deepak will now launch an Insaaniyat Jodo Yatra
SCs, Muslims both live in highly segregated neighbourhoods with poorer public services: International Study
The international working paper found that government services – like secondary schools, clinics and hospitals, electricity, water and sewerage – were all “systematically worse” in marginalised neighbourhoods
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