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When Suspicion Becomes Deportation: The case of Sahida Fakir and the dangerous criminalisation of Bengali identity

A woman who left home to buy dinner was detained, taken across state lines and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh despite her family producing a birth certificate, voter ID, school records and land documents

New MHA order gives Assam FTs unspecified and unprecedented powers

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Majority of Indians don’t aspire for a democratic society, often at the cost of minorities

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Help Mariyam Khatoon, widow of Alimuddin Ansari, the Jharkhand lynching victim

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A woman who left home to buy dinner was detained, taken across state lines and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh despite her family producing a birth certificate, voter ID, school records and land documents

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