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‘Reforms’: Sachar Committee, the 2013 Amendments and the motive behind the proposed changes in the Waqf Regime
While, like instant triple talaq and Uniform Civil Code (UCC), more stringent regulations on Waqf properties have figured in the BJP’s electoral manifestos in 1998 and 2009; the specific amendments have the potential to be the means for property grab and control of what has historically and legally been established as minority land holdings
Gauhati University is under complete lockdown, as protests against the CAA implementation spread across Assam, fears of the 2019 repression and loss of life...
A series of protests have unfolded all across Assam after the Centre, on March 11, furnished the rules and regulations of the Citizenship Amendment Act, which was passed in 2019.
Government notifies CAA regulations, opposition decries it as a means to polarise voters
The government officially issued a notification on March 12, bringing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) into effect in the run up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Selective & discriminatory, CAA notification likely to be followed by NPR-NRC
Since the time that the intent of what became the CAA Amendment of 2019 was conceived and found its way into the BJP’s 2014 manifesto, its intent has been divisive and exclusionary; the threats issued time and again by the minister for home affairs that CAA 2019 would follow a “chronology” –All India NPR and NRC—made the intent worse; insecurity and social upheavals will be the result of this cynical diktat
Anti-constitutional, bereft of humanity & religiously bigoted: CAA 2019 is now enforced in India
Not only are the Balochis and Ahmadiyas from Pakistan abandoned under this skewed law, but so are Uyghur Muslims of China and Tamil Hindus or Sri Lanka
Class 3 student threatens to kill Muslim classmate in Gujarat
On February 17th in Vadodara, Gujarat, an 8-year-old student studying in class 3 was targeted and reportedly abused by his fellow classmates. Reports suggest that similar incidents of discrimination have happened in the school earlier as well.
Karnataka: Muslim girl asked to not wear hijab to school, after students protested wearing saffron shawls
The hijab ban continues to evoke student protests against Muslim girls wearing the hijab, as a recent case from a private college in Karnataka reveals a girl wearing a hijab was told to remove it after students protested against her wearing the head covering.
UP Government SIT recommends closure of 13, 000 Madrasas, alleges unaccounted funding from ‘Gulf’
A three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Uttar Pradesh government has brought about its preliminary report and has stated that there are 13,000 ‘illegal’ madrasas spread across Uttar Pradesh.
Cop caught kicking and slapping Muslims during Friday prayer
A disturbing video has recently gone viral from Delhi's Inderpuri area, where the video captures the shocking actions of a police officer kicking and slapping Muslim men engaged in Friday prayers on the road Makki Jama Masjid.
Three Banes of India’s Muslims: Victimhood Syndrome, Power Theology, Obsession with Identity Politics
The author makes a convincing argument –based on a close study of the past century --for doses of rationality and soul-searching in the ongoing battle for minority rights and dignity, urges Indian Muslims to make their own contribution to invest in secularising India, and baldly asserts that minority communalism is no antidote to majoirtarianism
Delhi violence 2020: 4 years on, the shadow of violence lives on
It has been 4 years since the north east Delhi communal violence took place. However, the court case has seen a rocky road with several acquittals, with the court rapping the Delhi police for “shoddy investigation”, amidst all of this, the casualty continue to be the survivors of the violence.
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NHRC, India takes suo motu cognisance of a media report regarding the arrest and remand to custody of a Professor of Ashoka University in Haryana, issues notice to DGP Haryana
In a press release issued today, May 21, the NHRC has termed the arrest of Professor Mahmudabad as as a violation of han rights, directed the Director General of Police, Haryana to submit a report to the Commission within a week
Rights
SC: Interim bail granted to professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad; SIT to probe posts on Operation Sindoor
During the hearing, the bench led by Justice Kant expressed some disapproval of the petitioner's post.
Culture
Pahalgam Attack: Kashmir unites in heroic resilience amid terror attack, proving humanity’s strength against hate narrative
Kashmir, renowned for its breath-taking landscapes and the warmth of its people, became a place of tragic sorrow, loss and anger, on April 22 when a terror attack claimed 26 lives at Baisaran, Pahalgam. In the face of the chaos that followed, local heroes like Syed Adil Hussain Shah and Sajad Bhat risked their own lives to save others; despite the tragedy, the people of Kashmir, transcending religious and cultural divides, stood in fraternal solidarity, showing that humanity, love, and peace are stronger than terror and hatred
Rule of Law
“Shielding their own”: Supreme Court slams Madhya Pradesh police, transfers custodial death probe of a tribal man to CBI
In a scathing judgment, the Court denounces State inaction, delays, and intimidation of the sole eyewitness, reinforcing the constitutional demand for impartial investigation and institutional accountability
Rights
Singing Faiz’s ‘Hum Dekhenge’ is ‘Sedition’: Nagpur Police Book Organisers of Vira Sathidar Memorial
A group of young cultural activists sang the lyrics of Faiz’s famous poem last week. The police complaint says, 'At a time when the country valiantly fought Pakistani forces, the radical left in Nagpur were busy singing Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem.'
Politics
How high is the price of criticism? Professor Mahmudabad arrested for his criticism of politics of hatred
The targeting of a respected scholar from the minority community, for a critical comment on the politics of hatred during a national security operation underscores the growing erosion of free speech, institutional autonomy, and dissent in contemporary India