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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...

Did Savarkar, Syama Prasad Mukherjee and RSS betray the Quit India Movement?

On the eve of the 78th anniversary of the glorious Quit India Movement [QIM] we must evaluate the role of the Hindutva gang in India's anti-colonial freedom struggle

PM Modi says the NEP hasn’t raised concerns of any bias

He added that “national interest” was a key factor as "Every country equates education to its national interest and moves forward”

Deeno Daan, Rabindranath Tagore, about a temple, 120 years ago

Is this a coincidence that exactly 120 years ago, on this very day, Yesterday, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a poem "Deeno Daan". It was about a temple.

Fundamental right of reporter to publish news even if not palatable to administration: Calcutta HC

The Court granted anticipatory bail to the journalist who reported on policemen taking bribe and causing accident due to rash driving

Several ‘secular’ people applauded the Babri demolition: Ravi Gupta

In this interview from 1994, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) former Chairman Ravi Gupta tells Communalism Combat co-editor Teesta Setavad, how he saw varying forms and degrees of not only religious, but also caste and class discrimination become apparant after the Babri Masjid demolition

Newsrooms, Living Rooms and Class Rooms: Evolution of the Ayodhya Narrative

How a corrosive refashioning of India took place in our personal and social spaces

Reportage on Ram Temple: Is the media playing it safe?

Most publications and networks are either focusing on the ceremony or talking about Covid-19 concerns, artfully dodging its communal history

End harassment of Kashmiri journalists, lawyers: Kashmir Reading Room

The Jammu & Kashmir Reading Room (KRR), a collective...

Police probe ordered by NHRC into death threats on journalist: Sultanpur rape case

CJP had moved NHRC seeking protection for reporter who had exposed police inaction and possible cover-up in the case

Dravidian TN speaks out against NEP, no to 3-language formula

Calling the Centre's plan “painful and saddening”, CM Palaniswami (AIDMK)—an ally of the ruling BJP-- has demanded a reconsideration of the three-language policy, with states being allowed the constitutional independence to implement their own, even as the opposition DMK has opposed the elite bias in the proposed policy changes

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