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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

How could Allah prescribe different rules for Bohras living in different countries?

Following the conviction of a Bohra priest and two...

Why the world needs a UN treaty to combat violence against women

Violence against women is one of the most prevalent...

Treat Dalit Women as Equals before the Law: Radhika Vemula on Women’s Day

Last year, on the 118th Death Anniversary of Savitribai...

Democracy, Nationalism and Nazism

  The recent events in Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru universities...

Sunderban: Breaking the Chains of a Historic Injustice

A public hearing brigs to focus the ongoing struggle...

The story I never got to tell – of rape and torture by the Indian army

  Twenty five years ago this February 23, 2016 ,...

Irom Sharmila’s Anguished Appeal to Women of India

Irom Sharmila on a hunger fast for the past...

Entering a forbidden terrain: Women Qazis, ‘Auraton ki Shariah Adalat’, what next?

Why the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan is throwing one...

Attacking the Defenders of Freedom, Chhatisgarh: Lawyers and Journos being Forced Out

   Days after Scroll contributor Malini Subramaniam at Bastar in...

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  भारतीय समाज की सबसे निचली सीढ़ी पर खड़ी दलित...

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