Mounting Atrocities Against Dalits Across India
By Dr Ram Puniyani
In Karakthal village in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a Dalit youth was recently thrashed for daring to sport a moustache. In Chikkmagaluru, Karnataka,...
Suraj Pal Amu and the New Hindutva
By Samar Halamkar
“They make nude photos of our sisters and daughters and we cannot even murder them? Those who try to stop this panchayat,...
The Atlantic: How Dissent Dies in Modi’s India
By Snigdha Poonam
For most of her life, Gulfisha Fatima showed little interest in anything beyond academics. By late 2019, the 27-year-old Delhi resident had finished...
Five members of UP Dalit family attacked by goons of land mafia
Five members of a Dalit family, including a woman, were attacked allegedly by a group of local goons outside their house in Hariharpur village...
Delhi riots: Two women describe how they coped in Tihar
By Pheroze L. Vincent
Two imprisoned young women’s accounts of how they defeated the authorities’ efforts to “strip away” their “autonomy and humanity” form part...
Karnataka revokes Covid-19 relief to Muslim clerics after VHP opposition
By Nagarjun Dwarakanth
The Karnataka government has withdrawn its decision to pay allowances to Muslim clerics as Covid-19 relief in the state from the funds...
Ramprasad Bismil: A revolutionary who fought against Communalism and Colonialism till the end
We are living in an age where appearance is given preference over content; where Image is used as a both signifier and signified. The...
UP: Dalit youths thrashed in public by upper caste men on suspicion of stealing...
Amethi: Even after 73 years of independence, there seems to be no end to caste atrocities in Uttar Pradesh. In a fresh incident, a group...
Tracing Hindutva movement’s roots in Bengal
By B.Sanjay
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS): In post-partition India, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has remained the only prominent flag-bearer of the concept and the...
Under Modi, Politics of Polarisation Takes Over Development Narrative During Pandemic
By Zakia Soman
This May marked seven years of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) rule. In 2014 and again in 2019, majority of Indian electorate...
Sedition case against Lakshadweep activist Aisha Sultana for calling administrator Patel ‘bio-weapon’
By Shaju Philip
Lakshadweep police on Thursday registered a case of sedition against local resident and film activist Aisha Sultana for calling the Union Territory’s...
Right-wing elements communalise creation of new Punjab district
By Ziya Us Salam
The Punjab government’s decision to create the Muslim-majority Malerkotla district has come under attack from BJP ideologues who, in disregard for...
Asif Lynching: Despite Witness Account, Police Discharge 4 Men
By AISHWARYA S IYER
Despite Asif’s father and his brother and eyewitness Rashid having named four accused in the Asif lynching case, the Haryana Police...
