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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

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?

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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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)?

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’

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?

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.

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.