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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

Why are rapists and ‘upper-caste’ supremacists getting bolder in UP?

Two more raped in 24 hrs; Dalit women, children targeted even after UP CM Adityanath sets up SIT after Hathras horror

No dignity even in death for Dalits

The law is clearly on the side of the family of the Hathras gangrape victim, having provisions for action against any section, that denies survivors dignity in death, protecting the rights of the deceased

Acquittal of Babri accused, gang rape of UP Dalit woman are interlinked; have roots in the history

September 30, 2020 will be marked as another dark day in our history

Hathras rape a case of Caste Supremacist Atrocity: AIPWA

Uttar Pradesh CM Adityanath sets up SIT, after PM’s order, 15 days after Dalit girl was raped, tortured.

Hathras Dalit girl rape: Why are Smriti Irani, PM Modi, UP CM Adityanath quiet? 

UP Police stopped grieving family from taking their 19-yr-old home one last time citing ‘customs, traditions’, cremated her instead

Dalit girl gangraped by ‘upper-caste’ men dies: Will UP CM finally react?

The 19-year-old Dalit girl was gang-raped and tortured by four men in Hathras

Why are SHG women struggling with NPAs?

Sabrang India looks into why NPAs present themselves as such big challenges to SHG women.

India Unsafe: The escalating heinous crimes against women

Is this a sign of lawlessness and anarchy?

Time magazine calls Shaheen Bagh daadi global icon!

Meanwhile, Delhi riots chargesheet alleges that women protesters paid ‘daily wages’, used as for ‘gender cover’

Femicide: UP Man Rips Open Pregnant Wife’s Stomach To Find Out Baby’s Gender

At the horrific incident, the woman's family alleged that the man wanted a son and committed the crime to know if it was male or female foetus.

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