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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

Egypt court backs niqab ban on Cairo University staff

 The ban on the niqab has often sparked fierce...

All women anti CAA rally from Latashil to Chandmari in Guwahati

Pratidin Sangbad, Guwahati, 19th January: After various protest against the...

Relentless and Unyielding: Women protestors show how it’s done

Women protestors in Lucknow ask Amit Shah to turn up and remove their ‘misconceptions’ about CAA

The Many Meanings of Shaheen Bagh

It began as a trickle, with some twenty men...

Women gather at Agripada in thousands; show way against CAA-NPR-NRC

The women-led protest is one in the long line of agitations inspired by the women of Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh

Shaheen Bagh is everywhere!

Inspired by the spirit of Shaheen Bagh, women-led protests against the CAA-NPR-NRC soar

WB becomes first state to declare it will skip NPR meet in Delhi

A preparatory meeting is scheduled to be held on January 17 in Delhi for upcoming Census and NPR

Lipstick – and an Iron Will – under my burqa

A tribute to the women of Shaheen Bagh

Holding out anti-CAA posters renders 2 Delhi women homeless

The poster was held out during Amit Shah’s rally in Lajpat Nagar in Delhi, after which a mob gathered and their landlord evicted them.

Huge rally of women in Malegaon against CAA, NRC

Image Courtesy: indianexpress.comMalegaon witnessed its second massive protest against...

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After some dithering, Odisha government rejects premature release of Graham Staines murder convict Dara Singh

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Deaths, Denials and Delayed Action: The Balaghat crisis

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Why Swatantra Bhardwaj is a pawn in our politics

As a fellow Bihari and a native of Darbhanga, my heart goes out to the middle class parents who pawn jewellery and mortgage ancestral property to send their ladlas and ladlis to a big city…