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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

Great Bigots Think Alike: Indian Muslima to the Establishment

A poem about the place and perception of Indian Muslim women

Did Aurangzeb also issue a ‘farman’ against razing temples?

Amidst the Gyanvapi controversy, perhaps it is time to also look into historical facts that a majoritarian regime wants to erase

Shivling ‘found’ on Gyanvapi mosque premises, court orders area sealed

Video survey over, lawyers of petitioners claim that the shivling was found in the wazu khana

Hate Watch: Kerala cleric targets Muslim schoolgirl for accepting award, gets schooled by Governor

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan has questioned the state’s silence on the matter

Four buildings razed during SDMC demolition drive, MLA Amanatullah Khan arrested!

Residents and police sustain injuries; accuse each other of violence

CJP moves NCM seeking action against Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul for anti-Muslim genocidal speech

The Bihar MLA had compared Muslims to Ravan saying they should be set ablaze like demons

Khambat: Muslim women take to the streets to protest continued oppression of the community

Muslim women have been leading the way via peaceful protests, first in Shaheen Bagh and most recently in Khargone

Is Taj Mahal not a part of Indian Culture?

One can say the totality of plural expressions of people is Indian culture; it is inclusive and has syncretism in all the aspects of social life

Khargone’s Muslims rise against police atrocities

Khargone’s Muslim women marched, demanded their rights and decried the communal tactics of the regime

New Indian politics and increasing legal conservatism among Indian Muslims

The general reading of Indian Muslims as a monolithic community often glosses over the vibrant diversity underlying the regional differences in Islam

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SCs, Muslims both live in highly segregated neighbourhoods with poorer public services: International Study

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