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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

ABVP: In the footsteps of Pakistan’s Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba; ominously so

The unfolding Modi-BJP-RSS-ABVP nexus in India is but a...

The Real Classroom: Outdoor Lectures Dissect Nationalism at JNU

JNU teachers create History with the sit in lectures...

Look Who’s Talking! Hate speech can’t be free speech, says Jaitley

  In Parliament on Thursday Union finance minister, Arun Jaitley...

The Dogs and the Rabbits

  This story is a work of fiction and any...

Who Gets to Fund Higher Education? A Hindu Nationalist Donor Raises Controversy

Last year, the University of California at Irvine (UCI)...

Afzal Guru’s execution has made him a martyr

The Indian state refuses to accept that there is...

Turkey: Mind numbing violence in a country where even “insulting President” is a crime

Photo: Courtesy Human Rights WatchThe violence unleashed against political...

Between Freedom and Fascism: Speech is really free only when it hurts

Amidst Hindutva’s escalating hysterical-nationalism, raising the question of Kashmir’s...

Muslim policeman at duty beaten up and paraded in Maharashtra

Photo: Two CirclesLatur (Maharahstra): In an apparent display of...

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