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Unifying cultural celebration weaponised: Ganesh processions turned into stages for hate speech & moral policing

Ganesh Chaturthi, once a symbol of shared community celebration, was exploited this year by hard-line groups across India to amplify anti-Muslim and anti-Christian rhetoric, transforming a festival of harmony into a tool of exclusion

How my Nana read the Ramayana in Urdu

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Funds collected outside Pune mosques help rebuild 74 Dalit homes in Pune

In a heart-warming story of Dalit-Muslim unity from Maharashtra,...

Women candidates break records in the 2018 US midterm elections

Sharice Davids, the first lesbian Native American Congresswoman. EPA-EFE  The 2018...

Nazar Nasir: Breaking gender stereotypes in Kashmir through crochet

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Amendments to RTI Act will spell doom for good governance: RTI Commissioner

RTI Commissioner Dr M Sridhar Acharyulu, the information commissioner...

Good Bye, Gandhi!

Writing on Gandhi in an India stricken by faux...

Gandhi accepted his faults, so should we

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