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Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker

It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.

NHRC Holds 2007 Salwa Judum Ops to Account, issues Notice to Chhattisgarh

As India's Statutory Human Rights Body Calls the Central...

Bangladesh tops South Asia in gender equality

Bangladesh ranked 72nd last year  File photo: Women entrepreneurs at...

Notes on a Feminist Crowdsourced List of Sexual Harassers

In the wake of the extreme disagreements we have...

Why #metoo is an impoverished form of feminist activism, unlikely to spark social change

Using the hashtag #metoo, thousands of women around the...

Samajwadi Party fields transgender Gulshan Bindu as mayor candidate in Ayodhya

Samajwadi Party has declared its list of candidates for...

It’s not just O’Reilly and Weinstein: Sexual violence is a ‘global pandemic’

The recent exposure of widespread sexual predation in the...

Feminists uneasy over Facebook campaign to “Name and Shame”

As feminists, we have been part of a long struggle...

India’s first transgender Sarpanch vows to turn her village into an ideal village

A village in interior Maharashtra creates historyGnyaneshwar Kamble with...

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