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October 14, 2016
On this day 60 years ago, Dr BR Ambedkar, polymath – scholar, the principal architect of India's Constitution, and Independent India's first law minister – converted to Buddhism, having declared in 1935 that it was his misfortune to be a born an "Untouchable Hindu" but he will not die as one. This was the beginning of a social revolution – on the...
October 14, 2016
The proposed law renders any and all criticism of the existing political dispensation, especially the growing rage of the minority communities and Dalits against an increasingly intolerant regime, criminal.
Dalit protest in Gujarat; Photo credit: NDTV
The Gujarat government is set to table the Gujarat Protection of Internal Security Act (GPISA) in the upcoming budget session of the State...
October 14, 2016
Ashley (extreme left) with friends at the Eat-what-you-like, multiple options dinner hosted by him in Delhi a year ago
On this day, October 14, last year, NP Ashley, a Muslim hosted a 'Pork Dinner' to combat growing religious extremism
Some months ago, Sugathakumari, a Malayalam writer and a supporter of the Hindutva ideology, criticised Beef Festivals which came up protesting...
October 13, 2016
In the news reports on the Bijnor communal violence of Friday, September 17, 2016, as also in most of the recent instances of such violence in UP, Bihar, and Haryana, what is perceptible is a politics of reducing to anonymity (invisibilising, as it were) the subaltern identities of the Muslim victims, and reporting the crimes only in terms of their religious identity. The accused too...
October 13, 2016
पिछले दिनों गुड़गांव में प्राइवेट स्कूल में पढ़ने वाले एक बच्चे के अभिभावक ने आरोप लगाया कि फीस न देने पर उनके बच्चे को स्कूल में तीन घंटे तक धूप में खड़ा रखा गया, इस दौरान बच्चे की हालत इतनी बिगड़ गयी कि उसे अस्पताल में भर्ती करना पड़ा. इससे बच्चा इतना डर गया कि उसने स्कूल जाने से ही मना कर दिया .
दूसरी घटना इंदौर की है वहां के पैरेंट्स एसोसिएशन सदस्य निजी स्कूलों में मनमानी...
October 13, 2016
जिंदगी की जंग है कश्मीर की जंग
मेरे दोस्त क्या आप आजकल अखबार पढ़ रहे हो? पढ़ना जरूरी है। आपको हमारी करतूतों के बारे में तो जानना ही चाहिए? हां, वैसे आजकल आप कर क्या रहे हैं? आपने हजारों कश्मीरियों की जान ले ली है। सिर्फ इसलिए कि वे आजादी चाहते हैं। कुछ लोग कहेंगे कि पाकिस्तान कश्मीर पर कब्जा करना चाहता है। कुछ कहेंगे भारत इस पर कब्जा बनाए रखना चाहता है। लेकिन हम यह भूल रहे हैं कि कश्मीरी न तो...
October 13, 2016
Social media users have erupted in anger on the report that a Muslim youth was brutally ‘tortured’ by police in BJP-ruled Jharkhand after cops arrested him for a beef-related message on WhatsApp.
Many are asking if his body too should be draped in tricolour and his family be given Rs 25 lakh compensation just like the family of one of the Dadri murder accused Ravi.
Ravi’s...
October 13, 2016
A final chance has been granted to a Christian woman – convicted of blasphemy in Pakistan and facing execution.
Image: The Christian Post
The much awaited hearing of Asia Bibi’s last appeal in the court against her conviction for blasphemy in Pakistan’s Supreme Court was adjourned today, according to a report by Dawn. Another date for the hearing was not declared...
October 13, 2016
Britain is a nation of real diversity, tolerance and multicultural vibrancy. But for those who have suffered hate crime, it can be an alienating and terrifying place. Police figures have shown that hate crime surged in the UK in the weeks following the EU referendum vote, and still remains at significantly higher levels than a year ago.
Image:Roberto.Trombetta/flickr, CC BY-NC
But two...
October 13, 2016
Using cross-national data in human rights research helps perpetuate social wrongs.
Elections in the US are just around the corner, and it looks as if, once again, the results will ultimately hinge on outcomes in a few swing states. Perhaps foremost among these is Florida, where almost 25% of its African American citizens are disenfranchised because they are either felons or ex-felons. Florida...