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December 2, 2016
Feminist lesbians have been passionate activists from the beginning of the movement against men’s violence and remain an inspiration for women to live independently of men.
Lesbian feminists with a banner "I love, I trust, I value Myself: Stop Sexual Violence Against Women". Belgrade.
I came out as a lesbian in the feminist encounters at the end of the eighties in Yugoslavia...
December 1, 2016
It is a matter of disgrace for a nation of about 10 million, whose people once took refuge in its neighbouring country in the face of extermination, to push back a community that is facing the same situation.
Rohingya Muslims seeking refuge in Bangladesh. Photo credit: Dhaka Tribune
Two Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel are seen standing erect facing the Naf River, with AK-47 rifles...
November 30, 2016
वैश्विक स्तर पर ‘इस्लामिक आतंकवाद’ शब्द बहुप्रचलित हो गया है और इस्लाम के आंतरिक ‘संकट’ की कई तरह से विवेचना की जा रही है। कुछ लोगों की राय है कि इस्लाम एक बहुत बड़े संकट के दौर से गुज़र रहा है और इस संकट से निपटने के लिए ज़रूरी कदम नहीं उठाए जा रहे हैं। इतिहास गवाह है कि इसके पूर्व इस्लाम एक बहुत बड़े संकट से उबर चुका है। वह था क्रूसेड्स। वह एक बाहरी संकट था। इस्लाम का...
November 29, 2016
The RSS may not harm Islam in India, but it will certainly destroy Hinduism, Hindi poet Ashok Vajpeyi said on Thursday.
“Mahatma Gandhi had once said that all religions are true, but they are not perfect. Through this he is saying that each religion can learn from another religion. A nation which is called so diverse which has millions of gods and over 700 languages.
“Now...
November 27, 2016
Border Guard Bangladesh in Cox's Bazar district has pushed back at least 95 Rohingya Muslims who fled the country in the face of ongoing crackdown in Rakhain state by Myanmar troops
Photo credit: Dhaka Tribune
The 95 Rohingyas including women and children were sent back home from different border points of Teknaf till Sunday morning starting in the dead hours of the night....
November 27, 2016
कासगंज। नोटबंदी से अब तक 70 से ज्यादा लोगों की मौत हो चुकी है। इसके बाद से लोगों का सरकार के प्रति गुस्सा बढ़ता जा रहा है। खासतौर पर मजदूर वर्ग नोटबंदी के कारण बुरी तरह परेशान है। गोरखपुर में तो दिहाड़ी मजदूर इस कदर मजबूर हो गए हैं कि एक हजार रुपये के लिए नसबंदी करा रहे हैं। नोटबंदी के कारण कासगंज में एक रिक्शा चालक की मौत हो गई। इसके बाद उसकी पत्नी ने सरकार के खिलाफ तहरीर दी है।...
November 27, 2016
The Bharatiya Janta Party government has amended the land tenancy laws to allow use of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes.
Image credit: Manob Chowdhury
Offices and markets remained shut in Jharkhand on Friday after protests broke out over the amendments to land tenancy laws governing predominantly Adivasi regions in the state by the Raghuvar Das-led government. As...
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 23, 2016
Image Courtesy: Southlive
PATNA: Police in Bihar’s eastern Madhepura district on Tuesday arrested two of the six menaccused of setting afire as many as 18 houses belonging to a Mahadalit community — the poorest among the Dalit communities living in Bihar.
Media reports say that nearly 50 people from the distressed Mahadalit community in Udakishan area, many of them...
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....