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How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand

What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar

‘Good Sufi’, ‘Bad Muslim’

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Three Months After, Reading Rohith Vemula’s Poetry

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Why as a Woman and Mother I won’t say, ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’!

  The BJP-RSS propagated idea of “Bharat Mata”- shining, smiling,...

What a Wonderful Women’s day! At AMU

Aligarh Muslim UniversityThe co-founder of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila...

ISIS extremists kill Syrian poet, son on charges of apostasy

The poet and his son: Photo courtesy ABNAThe Islamic...

Muslim organisation takes up cudgels against extremism

Express photo: The organisation is also asking people to...

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Healthcare in Karnataka: Is a Health Bill the Need of the Hour?

The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires