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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
Hate Watch: Kerala cleric targets Muslim schoolgirl for accepting award, gets schooled by Governor
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan has questioned the state’s silence on the matter
UP: Four reports of cops allegedly committing crimes against women!
Two of these instances of brutal violence and assault were against Dalit women, one against a woman from an OBC family
Reproductive rights of American women in jeopardy?
A leaked draft of a majority opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito indicates that a majority of the justices could be inclined to strike down Roe vs. Wade
Yati Narsinghanand calls Hindu women snakes for not having enough children
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The serial hate speech maker has now berated Hindu women and men for not producing enough children
Orchestrated right-wing campaign targets Muslim women: Can the Law defend them adequately?
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Hindutva leader from UP openly threatens Muslim women with sexual assault outside mosque; it’s time to take a closer look at legal provisions against such an aggression
Post Poll Watch: Muslim woman allegedly threatened with triple-talaq after voting for BJP
The woman, identified as Uzma, has claimed that her angry in-laws beat her and threw her out of the house
Women’s dissent: India’s feminist legacy
Last few years show how 2022’s ‘Breaking Bias’ Women’s Day theme has become increasingly popular among Indian women
Assembly Elections: Large turnout among women voters
While authorities celebrate the improving statistics, ground realities remind that women’s issues are far from over – or even addressed adequately
International Women’s Day: Reflections from my Gaon
Let us set just one agenda, let us end this war
Aurat March: Highlight of International Women’s Day celebrations in Pakistan
Pakistan’s women’s collective succeeded in overturning administrative attempts to curb the popular women’s march in Lahore
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Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival
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India
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India
Food Security during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Need for a shift from food security to nutrition justice.
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India
Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses
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India
SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
Barely 771 “foreign nationals” identified in Karnataka and a miniscule 1,600 in six other Indian states; yet the hysterical bogey of the “ghuspetiya” (illegal immigrant) has been used to render 130 million plus Indian without the right to vote?
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2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death
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