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Mian Maqdoom Shah shrine, Mumbai’s Mahim Durgah & the December Urs

I saw quite a few processions going towards the Mahim dargah in Mumbai for the annual Urs celebration of the Muslim saint last evening. A lot of colour, not...

Climate Change Will Worsen Disparities, Increase Conflict, Support For Naxals: New Report

Bengaluru: As the effects of climate change on livelihoods become...

Play about Queers Cancelled, As VHP and Right Wing Organisations Protest

Image Courtesy: Jagriti TheatreThe staging of the play titled Shiva, which explores...

Keep Calm and Carry On: Dealing with Patriarchal Carpet Bombing in Kerala

For all women in India, what is happening in...

Sui Dhaaga: Weaving Deception

"By focusing on product rather than the process, the...

Gandhi accepted his faults, so should we

Be aware of demagogues and don’t let national icons...

When Majrooh Sultanpuri went to jail for writing poetry against Nehru

On his 99th birth anniversary, read how noted Hindi...

SC ends gender discrimination at Sabrimala: Women of all ages can enter temple

In a resounding slap in the face of patriarchy...

Opinion: Ganesh Chaturthi Replacing Ganesh Pujo in Bengal: A Cultural Threat or Political Move?

Surprisingly, from last three to four years Ramnavami, Hanuman...

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Partitioned minds, a Saffron Fatwa & Denial of Fair Opportunity: Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu

Each time, or several times in the past eleven plus years, incident after incident, brazen, bloody and discriminatory slips us lower into the abyss; the latest but sadly not the last is what transpired just this week at the Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu