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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...

Maharashtra mosques reiterate commitment to following noise pollution laws

In light of approaching Eid, state police hold meetings with authorities and local leaders to ensure peace and protection of the Muslim community’s customary rights

Honouring the Tricolour

Why we need to hold on to Khadi flags to truly preserve the spirit of the ‘Tiranga’

72 percent of Mumbai’s mosque hold off on loudspeakers

In keeping with the Supreme Court, mosques stop the use of loudspeakers for morning azaan

Allahabad HC bats for tolerance, but refuses to strike down meat and liquor sale ban

The court held that as the ban only applied to 22 wards in Mathura Vrindavan, it was not a complete ban; also claims of harassment were just “bald sweeping statements”

Hindi Imposition and Hindu Nation

Though English is a foreign language, Hindi is equally foreign to people in South Indian states

On the 103rd Commemoration of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Contemporary documents of the brutal massacre and people's heroic resistance remain hidden in boxes of National Archives

Aurangabad: Ram Navami procession shows respect to mosque

While passing by the mosque, DJ turned off the music; Aurangabad’s Hindus take a stand for secularism

Kashmir: Journalist Aasif Sultan jailed under PSA, after getting bail 

He has already been imprisoned for four years; under the PSA an individual can be detained without trial for up to six months

Teesta Setalvad is NOT making any movie titled “The Gujarat Files”: CJP to YouTube news channels

Two YouTube news channels had aired baseless, inflammatory and defamatory rumours about the Human rights defender’s involvement with a movie based on the 2002 Gujarat violence

Does news of assaults on journalists not reach any minister’s reading list?

Journalists have allegedly been arrested, stripped, assaulted and intimidated in different states across the country, all for speaking truth to power

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