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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

Why do investigations into the Delhi riots appear to be a conspiracy in itself?

Activists who participated in the anti CAA movement say Delhi Police is attempting to criminalise a peaceful protest

Riot book authors meet Delhi Police Commissioner, file complaint against Bloomsbury and others

Authors’ allegations include cheating, breach of trust etc against the publishers, as well as activists, writers and journalists

How the regime is hounding Human Rights Defender Dr. Kafeel Khan

A look at the charges invoked against him and how his woes could be far from over

Northeast Delhi riots: Crime Branch questions activist Umar Khalid again

The former JNU scholar was last questioned in August under the same investigation, and his phone was seized

Remembering Kandhamal

After travelling to Gujarat following the pogrom of 2002, I began inquiring into Hindu nationalist mobilisations in Odisha

Tablighi Jamaat: Bom HC judge disagrees with colleague’s remark on “indirect warning to Muslims”

Justice Sewlikar has said he does not conform to Justice Nalawade’s views that taking action against Tablighi Jamaat attendees was a warning for Indian Muslims in light of anti-CAA protests

Kandhamal 2020: We live with the national shame of impunity in perpetuity

From the mass murder of Christians in Kandhamal to the killing of Graham Staines, Christian minorities remain at peril

Kandhamal: Brotherhood of victims

Why we must all come together to challenge impunity, hate

Scapegoats and Holy Cows

Media, Police and Tablighi Jamaat in the Times of Covid 19

How courts rescued the Tablighi Jamaat from further hatred

Courts are increasingly finding that police acted without application of mind and the Tablighi members were made into scapegoats

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