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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
Never-the-less, she persisted: The true meaning of Mumbai Bagh
Another group of women protesters who refuse to back down are taking a hostile regime head on with decidedly peaceful means.
Male troops not ‘mentally schooled’ to accept orders from women: Center
Government cites physiological differences and peril of being taken as prisoners of war to refuse command posts to women officers
Did UP Police lathi-charge women anti-CAA protesters in Azamgarh?
Women were holding Shaheen Bagh style sit-in protest, when male police officers allegedly rained lathis on them
Chinmayanand granted bail, did judge shame survivor?
Allahabad HC order says it was a “complete matter of quid pro quo”, raises questions over survivor’s silence.
Muslim Board has little to offer Muslim women demanding right to pray in mosques
Press ReleaseWhile welcoming the submission of the All India...
Women are on the frontlines, won’t be silent: Activists to Modi
Prominent feminists write open letter to the Prime Minister demanding that he rein in his party men who have repeatedly made derogatory remarks and threats against women protesters
Imminent threat to lives of Shaheen Bagh protesters?
Hindutva supremacist groups openly declare hostile intentions, label protesting women ‘jehadis’
Thank God men only heckled, did nothing else: Dilip Ghosh on woman CAA protestor
The woman was holding an anti-CAA protest at a pro-CAA rally that Dilip Ghosh was leading
AIMPLB objects to SC interference in religious matters
Entry of women into mosques is now being discussed in court among other rights of women in Islam
Cabinet clears reforms related to abortion, reproductive rights
New measures extend deadline for abortions to 24 weeks, include unmarried women
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Gender and Sexuality
Women journalists who were attacked prevented from reporting, protest attacks
Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, on-ground reporting by women journalists, invites threats and abuse from the authorities; is it a coincidence that all three states are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?
Media
Reporter attacked on DU Campus, DUJ condemns assault
The body of journalists has condemned the attack on a female reporter as also the fact that the police remained ‘mute spectators’
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger
The author, a student in Bengaluru, asks why Dalit suffering is more readily received than Dalit anger in literature, cinema and public life. Is it because sorrow allows readers and viewers to remain sympathetic observers, while anger and refusal can challenge that comfortable distance?
Environment
Prioritise ecological security of country over “false narrative” of “highway development”: CCG to Govt & Courts
Former bureaucrats protest the “steady lowering of statutory safeguards for protecting India’s Environment and Forests” in an open letter to the government; both government and the judiciary need to prioritise the ecological security of our country and the health and life of its citizens over the false narrative of more roads, more buildings, more townships, more mines, more industries, more destruction of the natural world that is currently seen as progress.
Labour
Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces
The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.