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Situating the chronic backwardness of Pir Panjal in J&K politics
In a democracy, it is always expected by underprivileged communities that socio-economic reforms will be brought about through political means. After all, democracy is said to be a government of the...
View Article“Islamophobia is unjustifed fear of Muslims”: Prof Ahmed Shaheed
“There is this constant view that international human rights law doesn’t really allow you to look at concerns raised by Muslims, which I think is a fallacy,” says Prof Ahmed Shaheed who in 2021...
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Phoolan Devi: The revolutionary Bahujan Queen
Artwork by Siddhesh Gautam The international recasting of Phoolan Devi as a ‘bandit queen’ or ‘dacoit’ romanticises her as the armed looter Gabbar Singh from the Bollywood movie Sholay or the tribal...
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West Bengal’s Aparajita Bill centres populist pandering over women
West Bengal’s new Anti-Rape Bill is positioned as progressive and critical legislative reform aimed at addressing sexual violence against women and children by instituting ‘exemplary and severe...
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Kerala: Dalit family alleges ‘caste-class discrimination’ in suspension of...
A Dalit family in the Alappuzha district of Kerala has accused the principal and teachers of a government higher secondary school of caste-class discrimination against their identical twin sons,...
View ArticleIslamophobia is the grammar of world order: Prof Salman Sayyid
“The genocide that’s ongoing is not an interruption of the argument that I made about Islamophobia being the grammar of world [order], but in fact, it’s a demonstration of that,” Prof Salman Sayyid...
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Suicide of elderly auto driver over police harassemnt sparks outrage in...
On October 7, Yakoob Abdul Sathar, an auto-rickshaw driver and father of three, took his life after posting a distressing Facebook live video in which he blamed local police officers in Kerala’s...
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“Even for one patient, we will stay”: Hospital director in northern Gaza...
Al-Awda has 146 staff out of which only 85 are available in the facility as people in Gaza City have not been able to return to work since the siege, taking a toll on services. Photo: Special...
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