अल्पसंख्यांक
November 27, 2016
Poems in Right filled Anger, Of Resistance
On November 16, 2016, the occasion of the KG Kannabiran Memorial Lecture at Madurai, feminist activist Vasanth Kannabiran read our three powerful pieces of writing. Teesta Setalvad, co-editor, Sabrangindia delivered the lecture. We reproduce these powerful poems of Vasanth Kannabiran, a fellow traveler in the democratic rights struggle, with a...
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 25, 2016
While most of the Middle East is gripped with turmoil, terrorist attacks or displacement of both Muslim and non-Muslim residents due to military conflicts, Iranian Christians are smoothly making preparations for Christmas in over 300 churches across the country.
All of the churches in Iran, which amount to 300, are going to celebrate Christmas in the coming weeks, Saeed Taqavi, an official...
November 25, 2016
The disappearance of JNU student, Najeeb Ahmad, now in its 41st day, has been one of the stories to drop off the national radar after the government’s move to abruptly, without proper consultation, de-monetize Rs 500 and Rs 1000 Rs Notes. Huge number of students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) along with other universities staged a protest outside the Delhi Police Headquarters. The...
November 23, 2016
A video of Bajrang Dal goons in Bulandshahr’s Khurja in Uttar Pradesh mercilessly thrashing a Muslim couple because they felt both were ‘dirtying’ Hindu neighbourhood has surfaced.
In the video, the Hindutva brigade goons are seen mercilessly thrashing the man and the woman. We’ve edited the part of the video, where the woman’s identity could be revealed....
November 23, 2016
कर्नाटक सरकार द्वारा गत 10 नवंबर, 2016 को टीपू सुल्तान की जयंती मनाए जाने के मुद्दे पर जमकर विवाद और हंगामा हुआ। पिछले वर्ष, इसी कार्यक्रम का विरोध करते हुए तीन लोग मारे गए थे। टीपू सुल्तान की जयंती मनाए जाने का विरोध मुख्यतः आरएसएस-भाजपा और कुछ अन्य संगठनों द्वारा किया जा रहा है। इनका कहना है कि टीपू एक तानाशाह था, जिसने कोडवाओं का कत्लेआम किया, कैथोलिक ईसाईयों का धर्मपरिवर्तन करवाया और उनकी...
November 22, 2016
Members of the muslim Rohingya minority are fleeing Myanmar after government troops poured into their land since a series of attacks on police border posts last month
Rohingya refugees sit as they wait to enter the Kutupalang Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 21, 2016REUTERS
Hundreds of Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in neighbouring...
November 22, 2016
अमेरिका में एक मुस्लिम अमेरिकी महिला ने स्थानीय चुनाव में जीत दर्ज की है। महिला के माता-पिता भारत और पाकिस्तान से हैं।
महिला ने अमेरिकी राज्य मेरीलैंड में जीत दर्ज की है, जहां प्रवासी-विरोधी और मुस्लिम विरोधी बयानबाजी का बोलबाला था। राहीला अहमद (23 साल) ने लंबे समय से प्रशासन संभाल रहे व्यक्ति को 15 फीसदी वोटों के अंतर से हराते हुए मेरीलैंड के प्रिंस जॉर्ज काउंटी में स्कूल बोर्ड की दौड़ जीत ली...
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....