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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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