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Jauhar & the Politics of Distraction: How the Right and so-called liberals often complement each other

The selectiveness of medieval Muslim or medieval Rajput history in contestation is not just deliberate effort to alienate these two communities but is also a Brahmanical viewpoint that refuses to subject Peshwa or Maratha history to a similar brand of selectivity

Jamiat Launches a Law Institute to Defend Muslim Personal Law

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Give us bread or Give us Death : Uttar Pradesh workers scream!

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Menstruation is sacred, allow entry of women into Sabarimala, says Kerala BJP leader K Surendran

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The Surrogacy Debate and the Missing ART Bill

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‘The Assembly is not a place for religious discourses’

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Bombay HC Order on Haji Ali Has Opened a Floodgate

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The ‘Burkini Battle’: France’s Capitulation to Extremism

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Bombay High Court Upholds Women’s Right to Equal Access to Haji Ali Dargah

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Italian imam posts photos of nuns on beach: FB account blocked

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