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Politics of Humiliation: Mahua Moitra, mob intimidation and the Calcutta High Court’s warning

The alleged attack on Mahua Moitra came just a day after the Calcutta High Court warned against the growing culture of mob justice, public humiliation and egg pelting in West Bengal

Mass graves and missing lives

  The challenges thrown up for India, post-Godhra 2002, are...

The charge sheet

On June 8, 2006, Zakiya Jaffri, widow of the...

Pockets of resistance

The Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) in Vadodara, Gujarat,...

Cultural fascism

On May 1 and 2, 2006 the illegal attack...

Hating Muslims is a natural thing in Gujarat

  Gujarat has become an intolerable place; at least that...

Shadows and silences

It was a deluge of reactions from the Gujarati...

Shadows & silence

The Indian media turns a deaf ear to issues...

The protest of poor marginalised people is not considered news

  Siddharth Vardarajan           Courtesy: The HinduIt...

Massacre in Maharashtra

Kherlanji massacre: September 2006​Dalit killings in Kherlanji The murder of...

Caste out

Dalits and Dalit issues are largely absent in the...

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