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The Mubarakpur Saree in the Digital Age: Can e-commerce bypass traditional barriers?

An age-old saree weaving tradition is also one area brutally affected by the US-driven tariff war with India

A social media account that promotes Hindu supremacy and fear mongering

We came across an account on Instagram that posts videos promoting Hindu supremacism and victimising Hindus despite being the majority

Sudarshan News continues to spread hatred, targets Muslims

Chavhanke, along with Hindu monk Devkinandan Thakur, advocates for the Babri mosque demolition to be repeated in Mathura and Kashi

The poster boy of cow vigilantism, Monu Manesar, is back

A suspect in the double murder of Junaid and Nasir from Rajasthan in February this year, his name was dropped from the list of suspects, now he is back to acts of cow vigilantism

‘Rationalisation’ of Text books or Communalisation of the Polity?

Representation ImageText books of schools are also a site...

A Malyalee festival that is not about killing, one that connects us to the earth: Vishu

Vishu, a festival of harvest, celebrated world over by Malyalees (Malyalis), is also the first day according to the Malyalam month, Medam, when the Sun reached the equator

CJP complaint to Aaj Tak for airing show using the term “Mazaar Jihad”

In the show, hosted by Sudhir Chaudhary, he encouraged people to look for shrines around them and report them to the police to verify if they are real or fake.

IT Rules 2023: Union Government can now flag content relating to any of its “businesses” as “misleading”

The new form of censorship and govt control over information flow, in the 2021 amended Rules have been earlier challenged  by several digital media portals and their operation stayed by high courts, now stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s latest challenge is in the Bombay HC

BUJ deplores attempts to censor online content by Government fact check unit

The Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists deplores the Union Government’s attempt to regulate and censor news by a disingenuous and ambiguously-defined new device: a “fact -check unit” to identify  ‘fake or false or misleading online content’ in respect of “any business of the Central Government.”

Mughals Won’t Disappear From History Just Because Sangh Wishes so: Irfan Habib

In a special conversation with NewsClick, historian, Irfan Habib said that after the changes, the image of India will be tarnished in front of the world.

Moradabad Police debunks false communally charged claims made by Panchjanya, warns of taking legal action if misinformation is spread

In the now deleted tweet, the mouthpiece of RSS had claimed that a Muslim man had raped his Hindu wife along with his 15 friends

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