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The Erosion of Equal Protection: Constitutional attrition and State apathy in targeted attacks on Kashmiri vendors across the states

Systemic 2025 and early 2026 vigilantism and attacks against Kashmiri sellers, fuelled by religious profiling and hateful propaganda, dismantles the constitutional "bedrock" of Articles 19(1)(d) and (g), by substituting "reasonable restrictions" with mob-enforced exoduses, these acts subvert state authority and corrode public morality

What the Babri Judgment portends for the Future

 The Supreme Court judgment on Babri Mosque-Ram Janmbhumi dispute...

Invisibilisation of Muslim Grief: Babri Verdict

Post the SC verdict, the media focus refuses to shift from the legal debate of “Ayodhya” to the capturing of the common sentiment about “Babri” of the Muslim minority in India

Glaring loose ends: Is all fair in the Ayodhya verdict?

Hiren GohainWhile there is little doubt that their Lordships...

The lives of Pakistani Hindus, a shrinking minority

Religious persecution of minorities is a harsh reality of today’s world not only limited to the Indian sub-continent. History has been witness to religious persecution of minorities all over the world and while people continue to cling on to such fascist ideologies, minorities in every region will continue to bear the brunt of this malice.

NO to AZAD, WELCOME SAVARKAR!

Is the Indian State validating the Two Nation Theory?

Giving blood to save human lives is my response to the repression of Indian state

This past Saturday, November 9 was one of those gloomy days that brought together the Sikhs and Muslims to jointly grieve the highhandedness of the Indian establishment.

Oh, Ayodhya! It’s time for Muslims to introspect

Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTOWith a constitution bench of the...

The BSF have left the 300 plus livestock to die a slow death

Cattle killers: Will the BSF be pulled up for the inhuman killing of cattle in West Bengal?

Himanta Sarma in Assam claims protection of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Christians from detention centers after Citizenship Amendment Bill is passed

Himanta Biswa Sarma, a BJP leader in Assam –now the finance minister of the state--who has on previous occasions,too used the CAB to reassure non-Muslim communities, is once again playing the CAB card and pushing its agenda, to keep the weather ripe for acceptance of CAB before its re-introduction in the winter session of the Parliament in November.

Jharkhand becomes ‘lynching capital’, records one more death by mob violence

This is the 22nd death by mob violence in Jharkhand in the past three-and-a-half years

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The Erosion of Equal Protection: Constitutional attrition and State apathy in targeted attacks on Kashmiri vendors across the states

Systemic 2025 and early 2026 vigilantism and attacks against Kashmiri sellers, fuelled by religious profiling and hateful propaganda, dismantles the constitutional "bedrock" of Articles 19(1)(d) and (g), by substituting "reasonable restrictions" with mob-enforced exoduses, these acts subvert state authority and corrode public morality

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