भेदभाव
November 27, 2016
Statement issued at a 'Pinjra Tod' Winter Afternoon In Jamia Millia Islamia, November 17, 2016
A fiery anonymous open letter by a women resident of Jamia Millia Islamia to the VC on the arbitrary cancellation of late nights in August last year, marks the inception of Pinjra Tod as a movement. It has been an incredible year of reaching out to each other, connecting,...
November 27, 2016
For the political alliance of convenience to mature into a social alliance with Dalits, Muslims have to engage with the entrenched caste practices and ideas within their own community
Photo credit: New Delhi News
The recently held Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Conference in Ajmer gave a call for Dalit Muslim unity. Laudable in its objectives because of the marginal positions of both these communities...
November 26, 2016
Image Courtesy: Kashmir Life: Omkar Nath Bhat outside his home in Haal Shopian.
Pic: Bilal Bahadur
Since July 2016, sustained threats and some sporadic attacks have left the 808 Kashmiri Pandit families in the Valley, threatened. On October 29, 2016, Sabrangindia had reported how a petrol bomb was flung at the home of one such cluster of Pandits living in the Valley. A...
November 26, 2016
Late in the evening of Friday, November 25, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Friday quashed the orders of PSA detention of human rights activist, Khurram Parvez saying that authorities have abused their powers to detain him.
“The detention of the detenue is not only illegal but the detaining authority has abused its powers in ordering his detention,” observed the court of...
November 26, 2016
Glossy pamphlets, catchy slogans tell us building toilets at home is all about protecting the honour of bahu-betis. And who else but Dalits will clean them later?
As a development professional, I have walked into the offices of many NGOs and read many a lop-sided, glossy pamphlet with slogans that have made me flinch. As someone working on hygiene and sanitation issues, one among those...
November 25, 2016
Hindus and Christians can enter shrines at Nankana Sahib, but a security protocol keeps Muslims out.
Image credit: Wikipedia Commons
On the occasion of the 548th Nanak Gurpurab earlier this month, Siddiq-ul-Farooq, the chairman of the Evacuee Trust Property Board, the government organisation responsible for looking after non-Muslim property in Pakistan, announced the opening of...
November 24, 2016
Image Courtesy: BBC
After 1,322 days in arbitrary detention, journalist Mr. Mahmudur Rahman has been finally released on bail late on Wednesday afternoon (November 23). The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) have welcomed his long-overdue release, and urge authorities to drop all pending charges against him.
Acting editor of the Daily Amar Desh, a...
November 24, 2016
Background:
More than 300 Adivasi children have died in Malkangiri in the past two months of Japanese Encephalitis, official figure says 121 but local activists say the number is much higher, what is happening in Malkangiri?
Photo Courtesy: Greeshma Aruna Rai
Firstly, 32 children have been confirmed to have died due to JE. This by itself is cause for concern and requires all...
November 21, 2016
Eminent economist and researcher Dr Abul Barkat says that there will be no Hindus left in the country three decades from now.
Dr Abul Barkat
“The rate of exodus over the past 49 years points to that direction,” the Dhaka University teacher says in his book Political economy of reforming agriculture-land-water bodies in Bangladesh published yesterday....
November 20, 2016
जेएनयू के प्रॉक्टर की जांच में एबीवीपी कार्यकर्ता विक्रांत कुमार विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में हुए एक हंगामे के दौरान नजीब अहमद पर हमला करने के दोषी पाए गए हैं।
इस घटना के बाद नजीब एक महीने से भी अधिक समय से लापता है। उत्तर प्रदेश के बदायूं का रहने वाला नजीब (27) जेएनयू में स्कूल ऑफ बायोटेक्नोलॉजी का छात्र है और वह विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में विक्रांत सहित एबीवीपी के कार्यकर्ताओं के साथ हुई कथित...