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“Lost all hope of ever living in clean habitat,” say residents of Delhi’s...
Shanti Devi, 70, sitting outside her house, continues to grapple with the daily struggle for water. Photo: Anushka Kogta Batto sits on her haunches, overlooking the flooded home made out of old...
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‘My family and I have suffered injustice’: Released Muslim activist Javed...
Javed Mohammed’s arrest was deemed politically motivated by several human rights groups and opposition parties. Photo: Shaheen Abdulla/Maktoob When Javed Mohammed left for the police station on his...
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Representation, reservation, caste census: Ashoka University students’ battle...
Slogans of “Brhamanwaad, Baniyawaad Murdabad”, echoed at the Ashoka University (AU) campus on March 22 as a part of the ongoing sit-in protests while student groups managed to disrupt a talk,...
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Election 2024: Samajwadi Party’s internal chaos might open a window for AIMIM...
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a joint rally alongside the NDA’s new partner, Jayant Chaudhary’s Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), in Meerut, the main opposition party in the state is still...
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Analysing dip in Academic Freedom Index: Who takes the deepest plunge?
Dr. Shirin Akhter, Dr. Vijender Singh Chauhan The recent revelation on the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) shows that academic freedom has registered a further dip in India. The report notes a downward...
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34 crore blood money: Thousands join fundraiser to save Kerala man from death...
Thousands have joined a Mother in Kerala’s Kozhikode in a last bid to save her son from being executed in Saudi Arabia. Sentenced to death for the death of a Saudi boy, Machilakath Peediyekkal Abdul...
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Kerala: Church justifies screening of Adult film ‘The Kerala Story’ for...
Protests surrounding the Hindutva propaganda movie, ‘The Kerala Story’, resurfaced after the movie was screened by a church, which also organized a class on one of its Islamophobic themes, ‘Love...
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“It’s a trap”: Why Bengali Hindus in Assam are opting out of Citizenship...
Montu Das from Kakubari wants to apply for citizenship for his wife Nisharani Das under CAA. But he thinks his wife will face legal issues if she applies as she has to show Bangladeshi documents....
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Polynomial Politics: Imagining India as a Country Led by Lower Castes
This article is a review of the book Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics by Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan, edited by Maël Montévil, published in April 2024. At a time when India...
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Betrayals, false promises and broken alliances: Election apathy peaks in Kashmir
Mubashir Naik and Zoya Malik As Jammu & Kashmir encounters the parliamentary election this month, uncertainty looms, about whether the Kashmiri people will cast their vote or stay away from the...
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North Bengal’s tea gardens, missing childhoods and unending exploitation
A child looking out of the day care centre in Killcott Tea Garden Nikhil Singh and Mriganka Goswami Fulmoni Munda’s son Taran (name changed to protect identity as per law), who would be 27 this year,...
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In Pictures: “Need change, want to live peacefully,” say Ahmedabad voters
Ahmad Khan from Old Ahmedabad is not ready to reveal his political thoughts, but he wants change. Photo: Sahid Faris/Maktoob Three days before Gujarat goes to the polls to elect Lok Sabha members,...
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In Sambhal, UP Police accused of voter suppression
The third phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024 was completed in Uttar Pradesh with multiple allegations levelled by the voters of Sambhal constituency of being driven away, lathi-charged, and identity...
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“Only tiny proportion of reality”: RTI study reveals over 9,600 children...
At least 9681 children were wrongly incarcerated in adult prisons across the country between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2021, a study with data compiled using government data accessed using Right...
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On this day, fifteen years ago, Kerala Police killed six Muslims, including a...
Fifteen years ago, on May 17, 2009, the day after the 2009 general election results were announced, Beemapally, a coastal town in the capital city of Trivandrum with a predominantly lower-caste...
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Dholpur evictions: Shanties of evicted Muslim families reduced to rubbles...
Mamataz Begum, the widow of Maynal Hoque – gunned down by Assam Police in September 2021 during the eviction drive in Darrang district’s riverine sandbar of Dholpur when he charged with a bamboo pole...
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In polls for existence, Muslims find their names missing from electoral rolls
Photo courtesy: @ECISVEEP As Mumbai voted on 20 May, journalist Rana Ayyub spent her day visiting all the polling booths in her locality. But she wasn’t reporting on the mammoth elections. Rana wanted...
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“We will vote for anyone but not for Modi and BJP; they have killed our...
While Delhi is going to the polls today in the second-to-last phase of the 18th Lok Sabha Elections, residents of North East Delhi are seeking change as the painful memories of what is called the...
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Is Europe drifting away from Israel?
Photo: AFP Last week, Spain, Ireland, and Norway recognised Palestinian statehood, despite strong opposition from Israel and the United States. This action serves as a sharp rebuke to Israel. These...
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Kerala Police quizzes Muslim man for photo outside Jewish synagogue on Facebook
On May 13, Nizammudin aka Nizam, a Muslim businessman from Ernakulam, shared photos on Facebook of him hanging out with three friends outside the Jewish synagogue in the historic town of Mattancherry....
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