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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

Mehvish Zargar: A Kashmiri lawyer who found independence through opening her own café

Srinagar:- In a patriarchal society like Kashmir where all...

Saudi women can drive, but are their voices being heard?

Earlier this summer, Saudi Arabia lifted the decades-long ban...

Burqa comments like Boris Johnson’s are pushing Muslims to reassert their identity

Boris Johnson’s inflammatory remarks about women who wear the...

Arrests of women’s rights activists put Saudi Arabia on the wrong side of history

From Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for...

Muzafarpur Shame Exposes Governments dependence on NGOs for Welfare Responsibilities

The horrifying news from a state sponsored shelter home...

Indian Women, Inordinately Burdened By HouseWork, Pay The Motherhood Penalty

Delhi/Gurgaon: Underneath two gigantic chandeliers in the conference room...

Nation-wide Shutdown Against Rape Culture Marks Women’s Month in South Africa

Marches were organized in all nine provinces in the...

An education in sexism

The culture of casual sexism in schools has long-term...

Why does the Indian society let men get away with crimes against women?

A student recounts an incident in her college and...

Pakistan: All the Prime Minister’s Women

Female members of Imran Khan’s party claim that Pakistan’s...

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From Arunachal to Delhi, anti-dam protesters face state crackdown; detained allege sexual assault

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Beyond Appropriation: Vidya Bhushan Rawat’s recovery of Bose’s inclusive nationalism

Rawat’s book emerges from a unique perspective that argues –among other things – that Bose and Nehru must be understood through their competing strategies, and historical circumstances— not recruited retrospectively into opposing political camps; neither does the book place Bose beyond criticism, affirming however his intrinsic secular outlook while stressing on diverse networks that helped sustain the struggle for independence’ not a biography of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose but a chronicle of Indian National Army as well as India’s freedom Movement.

After 22 years under suspicion, Assam’s Kashem Ali declared Indian by Foreigners Tribunal

With 18 years passing between the registration of the case and service of notice, and nearly a year spent fighting to prove his citizenship, Kashem Ali finally wins legal relief with CJP’s assistance

From treating Adivasi communities to being branded an instigator: Odisha jails doctor Randall Sequeira

Arrested in a case in which his name did not figure in the original FIR, Dr Randall Sequeira faces serious criminal charges amid an intensifying crackdown on Adivasi communities resisting bauxite mining in Odisha

Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival

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Arunachal’s anti-dam protests intensify as arrests, militarisation and threats to press freedom fail to silence resistance

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