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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

Sustaining Shaheen Bagh & Challenges that lie ahead

A peaceful and powerful movement articulated by Muslim women, thrice oppressed, it must reach out to others alienated, workers, farmers, Dalits and Adivasis

Single women’s meet demands increase in widow pension to Rs 5,000: Gujarat

A single women's conference, held under the auspices of...

SC mediators arrive at Shaheen Bagh, gov’t stooges try to delegitimise protests

Pro-regime TV channels and social media trolls attempt to question authenticity of protest alleging Shaheen Bagh women were ‘tutored’ by CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad

SC’s landmark judgment: Equal roles for women in the Army

The SC ruled that all women army officers are eligible for permanent commissions, commanding roles

Can’t have rules violating students’ dignity: NCW

NCW representatives met girls of the Gujarat college who were allegedly forced to strip by the authorities to prove that they were menstruating

Four, including Principal, booked for humiliation of 68 girls in Bhuj hostel

The authorities of the SSGI had demanded that the 68 girls prove that they were menstruating

Rein’state’ed – The case of the ‘exchanged’ women at Partition

The paradigm of the “recovery” and “restoration” of women was a form of biological citizenship, as it entailed not only determining the religion (at birth) of a woman, almost as if it were a biological characteristic, but also her biological status as a woman whose body had been violated, impregnated, or otherwise defiled by union with a male of another religious community

Protests against Delhi police brutalities on women students at Jamia, inaction at Gargi College

It was reported that at least 10 women protestors at Jamia were hit on their private parts by the Delhi Police

Picture of two Elderly Women at Shaheen Bagh, is worth thousand words

Divided by class and privilege, but united by compassion and patriotism

Draped in yellow, Malerkotla rises against the CAA-NPR-NRC

The women, students and farmers in the town are planning for a mega rally against the CAA-NPR-NRC on February 16

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