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‘We Cannot Be Afraid’: Rhiya Ahir in Conversation with Teesta Setalvad

What does it mean to stand beside young people when they choose to confront power?In this conversation, activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad speaks with Rhiya Ahir, whose act of...

I am not scared, this attack on me will resonate in society: Kamal Shukla

With a bandaged head injury, in pain when talking, the Bastar-based senior journalist says goons want to kill him for exposing sand mafia

What Bhagat Singh would have fought (for) in 2020 India

Romila Thapar on Bhagat Singh’s 112th Birth Anniversary, September 28, 2019. We are re- publishing this today, on the 113th Birth Anniversary

We are with Sudarshan News: Absurd slogans of NRIs in NY

Video of an NRI group supporting Sudarshan News surfaces.The channel’s deeply communal show ‘Bindas Bol’ appears to have attracted sympathisers.

Why Are gay Muslims held to standards that not even prophets fulfil?

There is no dearth of online YouTube videos and...

Twitterati bat for Farmers’ Rights, even as news media attempts distractions

Even as troll armies, IT Cells and news media continue to spread propaganda or divert attention, civil society, some journalists and ordinary Indians came together to bat for ‘kisan-mazdoor’ rights

Advocate-activist Babar Qadri shot dead by militants in Srinagar

Second political-social activist killed by in 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir

Media coverage on Covid-19, anti-CAA protests, prejudiced: Report

Campaign Against Hate Speech’s report finds reportage laden with gender and religious stereotypes 

Time magazine calls Shaheen Bagh daadi global icon!

Meanwhile, Delhi riots chargesheet alleges that women protesters paid ‘daily wages’, used as for ‘gender cover’

Aakar Patel arrested, then bailed for three tweets on Modi, BJP-RSS & Ghanchi Caste: Gujarat

Patel says the state has become intolerant of dissent. He has been asked to hand over the devices used to post the tweets in question.

CJP moves NBSA against India Today’s communal sting operation on Madrasas

The complaint was filed against a sting operation run by the channel while drawing links to the Tablighi Jamaat incident which was largely pegged as being a conspiracy for spread of Covid-19 in India

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