Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
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
Sambhal Mosque, Ajmer Dargah: how deep do we plunge into the abyss?
A misplaced and selective narrative of distorted history is whipping up social tensions and threatening lasting peace
Rising Tensions: Muslim Religious Sites face renewed attacks, demand for survey in Delhi’s Jama Masjid and Hanuman Chalisa
New legal disputes at the behest of Hindu groups and public provocations fuel communal discord, undermining India’s pluralistic fabric and threatening interfaith harmony
Upholding the Madarsa Education Act as constitutional, the SC however restricted the Board’s right to confer degrees
Upholding the law as not infringing fundamental rights or secularism, the Supreme Court however upheld the State’s right to regulate higher education degrees
Sambhal Violence: State crackdown intensifies, thousands accused, and allegations of police misconduct ignite a political and communal crisis in Uttar Pradesh
As families of the 5 dead Muslims mourns its dead, the state government faces criticism over aggressive tactics and arbitrary arrests, communal targeting, victim threatening and political scapegoating
Sambhal’s darkest hour: 5 dead, scores injured in Mosque survey violence as UP police face allegations of excessive force
Amid rising tensions in Sambhal, police deny responsibility for the death of five innocent Muslim youth, pointing to injuries among their own, while videos and eyewitness accounts paint a different picture; internet shutdown, prohibitory orders, and detentions underway
Supreme Court delivers a 4:3 Verdict on parameters to determine the minority status of institutions
A seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court recently pronounced a verdict in in case of AMU vs Naresh Agarwal, in a 4:3 majority—overruling the court’s previous judgement in Azeez Baasha vs. Union of India.[1] The Supreme Court, in 1967, had held in Azeez Basha that Aligarh Muslim University did not quality to be minority institution as it was neither established nor administered by the Muslim community.[2]
Muslim bride molested on Delhi-Aligarh train, husband thrashed for defending her
Despite the victim's pleading for help, other passengers remained silent and did nothing to intervene. In a highly questionable move, the GRP police chose to take selective action, arresting the victim's husband instead of accused, later released after relatives staged protest
Indore Muharram Poster Misunderstood: right-wing claims ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ message, despite common tribute
A traditional Shia Muslim poster depicting the battle of Karbala, with Imam Hussain's family watching the aftermath, has ignited a political debate after a BJP leader's son accused it of targeting Hindus. The poster features a famous Arabic inscription, "Man Kunto Maula Fa Haza Aliun Maula," honoring Imam Ali; ACP Chauhan of the locality in Indore however later clarified that the poster in question related to Karbala and was not objectionable in any way
Fortieth anniversary of the forgotten mass 1984 killing of Sikhs, rapist and killers yet to be identified and punished
Four decades of apathy and empathy have marked the failure of the Indian State and Judiciary to provide substantive justice to the Sikh victims of 1984
‘Spit Jihad’: a conspiracy afresh to break the economic backbone of Muslims & Dalits
It is no wonder that it is BJP-ruled state governments, born of an ideology rooted in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that is itself unconstitutional, that has launched a slew of measures that are discriminatory by both conception and implementation
Trending
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
Rights
From D-Voter Tagging to Citizenship Declaration: Anowara Khatun’s case before the foreigners’ tribunal
A Goalpara woman’s case underscores structural barriers faced by economically disadvantaged individuals in proving citizenship
Rule of Law
Rebuild or Compensate: Nagpur HC confronts NMC over ‘bulldozer’ demolition in riot case
Court flags prima facie breach of Supreme Court safeguards; asks civic body to decide whether it will reconstruct the house or pay damages
Communalism
CJP’s 2025 Hate Watch: leading the fight for accountability in the digital media
In 2025, CJP emerged as India’s leading voice confronting digital hate on television, spearheading sustained NBDSA interventions that challenged communal broadcasts/debate, secured corrective orders, and strengthened accountability frameworks to restrain the spread of hateful and polarising content across news media
Caste
The Double Stage: Caste’s Schizophrenic Modernity between Spectacle and Shadow
Caste from the pre-modern, colonial to the post-Republican; this analysis draws from, among others, works by Nicholas Dirks (2001), Anand Teltumbde (2014) and Gopal Guru (2016) to map this transition showing that contemporary caste should be best understood as a sort of social schizophrenia driven by imaginative acts whereby power perpetuates itself through a convoluted hermetic legitimising act in India.
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
UGC Guidelines 2026: AISA Protest at Delhi University followed by sexual abuse allegations amid police presence
Delhi university has seen persistent protest by Ambedkarite and left groups demanding implementation of the UGC Guidelines 2026 that were summarily stayed by the Supreme Court; in one such, a confrontation during a mobilisation over UGC equity regulations, AISA women leaders were subject to brute and allegedly sexualised threats, while a right-wing YouTuber filed a separate assault complaint; police have registered parallel FIRs
Labour
12 Bengali migrant workers murdered in 6 states, Maharashtra tops the crime list
Following the recently unleashed hysteria on the misnomer “Bangladeshi immigrants”, spearheaded by BJP elected officials from the Centre to States, as many as 12 Bengali migrant workers have been murdered, revealing the physical targeted harm that can flow out of systemic hate speech made by those in public authority; these are statistics compiled by the West Bengal Migrants Welfare Board; 4 of the 12 killed have been in “progressive” Maharashtra and 10 in states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Communalism
Against the Script of Hate: How ordinary citizens are reclaiming public space
A shop sign in Kotdwar, a shutter kept open in Nainital, a landlord’s refusal in Purola, and a Valentine’s Day standoff in Jaipur — how everyday acts of defiance are reshaping the narrative of communal tension in India