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Bulli Bai.

Weaponising Hate Apps: Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai

By Prabir Purkayastha The recent Sulli Deals and bulli Bai cases targeting Muslim women show how the deeply anti-women and communal mindset manifests when deployed...

I don’t have a choice to remain silent: Safoora Zargar

For Safoora Zargar, a Muslim student leader, hardly a day goes by​ without online abuse from India’s right-wing trolls for her dissent against Modi’s Hindutva...

‘Dark Clouds Looming’: IIT Alumni Ask PM Modi to Condemn Dharma Sansad, ‘Bulli Bai’ App

New Delhi: Alumni of IITs have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his silence on several concerning issues – like the hate speeches at...

Bulli Bai’ App case – Advent of cyber Hindutva in India

By Syed Ali Mujtaba The arrests made in the ‘Bulli Bai’ app case by the cyber branch police from Mumbai and Delhi suggest the existence...

‘Utter Moral Bankruptcy’: Thousands Ask CJI to Take Cognisance of Apps ‘Auctioning’ Muslim Women

New Delhi: Nearly 4,500 people from across the country – including lawyers, women rights activists and others – have signed an open letter to Chief...

‘Sulli Deals,’ Form of Hate Speech, Must Be Condemned: UN Minority Affairs Chief

UNITED NATIONS/ GENEVA  — Harassment of Muslim women in India through social media apps such as “Sulli Deals” must be condemned and prosecuted as soon...

Bulli Bai app and the descent of India’s educated youth into using tech for anti-Muslim hate

By BISMEE TASKIN Vishal Jha, Shweta Singh, Mayank Rawal, and Niraj Bishnoi — all between 18 and 21 years old — have been arrested for creating...

Delhi Police Makes Breakthrough in Bulli Bai: Why Didn’t It Act 6 Months Ago?

By MYTHREYEE RAMESH , HIMMAT SHALIGRAM On 1 January, when hundreds of Muslim women started their New Year seeing their photos being misused and 'auctioned' on...

Bulli Bai auction: The audacious bullying of Indian Muslims

By RUBEN BANERJEE Some 100 Muslim women in India had a disastrous start to 2022 when they woke up on January 1 to find that...