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Urdu is not the monopoly of mullahs, nor even the Muslim community
Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure
2021: A year of unprecedented communal hate crimes
The sheer nature and number of incidents of communal hate crimes in 2021 are overwhelming and a reminder to authorities that it is high time to act against them
According to MHA, Missionaries of Charity itself “requested SBI to freeze its own accounts”!
Ministry of Home Affairs has said it rejected Missionaries of Charity’s renewal application under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act “due to adverse inputs”
Alienation and apathy: Assam government’s 2021 agenda?
From a new cow protection law to eviction of minority communities, here are some of the Assam government’s most blatantly exclusionist policy decisions of 2021
22,000 inmates hit as Missionaries of Charity’s bank accounts are reportedly ‘frozen’!
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee expresses shock at the Union government's brazen action against Mother Teresa’s organisation in India
Was Rahul Khan’s Muslim identity that led his friends to hack him to death?
Rahul Khan, a Muslim resident of Rasoolpur village in Haryana's Palwal was hacked to death by his ‘friends’ Kalua,Vishal, Akash and some others
Jamia attack anniversary: Arundhati Roy compares CAA-NRC with Hitler’s Nuremberg law
Interestingly this meet was on a day when Jamia Millia Islamia got an A++ rank in the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) review
Bashing Christians in India
The divisive agenda is clearly to polarise sections of the majority community against the Christians
Targeting Christian community not a new phenomenon in Karnataka: PUCL report
Report traces history and evolution of Hate Crimes against Christians in the state where right-wing vigilantes are given a virtual carte blance to unleash violence and terror upon minorities
Gujarat: Why was a Christian ashram accused of conversion even after enquiry found nothing amiss?
An FIR was lodged in this regard under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act at Makarpura police station based on a complaint by District Social Defence Officer Mayank Trivedi
Karnataka’s Right-Wing groups most active against Christians ahead of State Assembly meet
Right wing mob sets Christian books ablaze in Kolar, in Belagavi man enters church armed with a machete; Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai hints that draft “anti-conversion bill” may be approved by cabinet
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