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Dhandhuka violence: Gujarat minority group seeks judicial action, cites targeted arson

The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC) Gujarat has written to the Director General of Police seeking judicial action in connection with recent violence in Dhandhuka town of Ahmedabad district, alleging...

Hijab ban: News media loses interest but student protests continue

Experts have time and again pointed out that students are fighting for their rights in a controversy created for political benefit

Prelude to the Gujarat 2002 Carnage

A look back at the communal buildup to the violence that broke out in February 2002, as documented meticulously in Communalism Combat Archives by Teesta Setalvad

Memories of Struggle: The quest for justice continues 20 years after the Gujarat Carnage

CJP and Teesta Setalvad bring together TM Krishna and Naseeruddin Shah to honour the memory of the victims, and the strength of the survivors with music and conversations

Bajrang Dal members assault Muslim family in Assam

A retired school teacher’s beard was pulled, his wife and daughter suffered injuries, little granddaughter was left traumatised!

First they came for the hijab, then they came for the turban; what is next on the list?

Bengaluru college asks Sikh girl to remove turban, following High Court interim ruling on the matter 

What is not obligatory is not essential: AG in Hijab ban case

He argued that if wearing hijab is freedom of expression that means it is optional and not obligatory

Muslim man allegedly lynched by cow vigilantes in Bihar, why is CM silent?

Victim, Mohammad Khaleel Alam, was reportedly a JDU member, his body was later burnt and the accused claimed it was to send a message

No interfaith nikah sans parents’ consent: MP’s Ulama Board’s latest diktat

Madhya Pradesh Ulama Board has “decided” that Muslim parents will have to take a call if their consenting adult children or daughters can marry a non Muslim partner or not

Hijab Ban: Identity politics or body policing?

CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad and social scientist, Dr. Muniza Khan, discuss the question no one has asked yet

Has Gujarat BJP been taken to task for its anti-Muslim ‘caricature’ yet?

The offensive tweet posted after the verdict in the Ahmedabad blast case; deleted after thousands of objections, Instagram clean up follows

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