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Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists
Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices
Modi Govt said we will shut Twitter down, raid employee houses if orders are not followed: Jack Dorsey
Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, however, dismissed ex-CEO, Jack Dorsey’s claims as an outright lie; Dorsey also claimed that India put pressure on platform during farmers’ stir
What lies behind the latest Islamophobic slur ‘#Gaming jihad’?
A lone case of alleged forced conversion in Ghaziabad through an online gaming app unleashes hate - #Gaming Jihad’ is the latest epithet that adds to a long line of previous slurs, #CoronoJihad, #PopulationJihad, #Land Jihad, #Madrassa Jihad
Chokhamela’s Bhakti: the past transforms into a radical present
A poet-philosopher of an inclusive tradition, Chokhamela experienced the bitter exclusion of caste, yet persisted in his questioning spirituality, adding to the rich variety in this centuries’old tradition, the Warkari (Varkari) devotional movement of Maharashtra
Times Now Navbharat: Where hate sells like hot cakes daily
The Hindi news channel of the powerful Times Group has been belligerently pushing its anti-minority agenda through its shows: an analysis of their content of over just seven days, shows how tireless they are in propagating hate; where this leaves the quality and standards of fair and equitable practices in broadcasting is a question that bears examination
“Embarrassed” with textbooks: Suhas Palshikar, Yogendra Yadav ask NCERT to drop their names
Following recent controversial changes made to political science textbooks, the political scientists wrote to NCERT asking it to drop their names as chief advisors. We feel embarrassed that our names should be mentioned as chief advisors to these mutilated and academically dysfunctional textbooks,” they said.
Ex-judges, bureaucrats, diplomats support inclusion of V.D. Savarkar in DU’s political science syllabus
The group went further: it also supported DU’s decision to drop the philosophy of poet Mohammad Iqbal from the political science syllabus, as he was associated with the idea of a separate Muslim nation
Denial of access: number of Muslim students shows sharp decline: India
Recent reports on education and higher education reveal a staggering decline in the number of Muslims enrolled in all institutes of education
Decimating schools to accommodate Shakhas
The NEP 2020’s position paper on “Knowledge of India” (KI) (January 2022) including `Indian Knowledge Systems’ (IKS) clearly privileges Brahmanical propaganda and hegemonic structures of the past, a past already glorified in the thousands of shakhas[1] run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS)
Film as Propaganda: the months between June 2023 & May 2024
After the Kashmir Files & Kerala Story, now movies on the Godhra violence, Tipu Sultan, ’72 Hoorain threaten social peace
Teaser of Film on Savarkar: Lies Galore
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