Category: Minorities
Commemorating Mohsin Shaikh’s mob lynching and denial of justice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Seven years have passed since Mohsin Shaikh, Modi-ruled India’s first recorded hate-crime victim, was lynched. Until now, justice remains elusive for Shaikh.
MHA order on citizenship isn’t CAA 2019, won’t rescue Bengali refugees
Reading Time: 5 minutes The recent MHA order on citizenship stirred a controversy on whether it’s a backdoor entry of the CAA 2019. It’s not. Also, both won’t help Bengali refugees.
Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque placed on Ayodhya template
Reading Time: 5 minutes Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque is now under gloomy clouds as a synchronised campaign has placed it on the Ayodhya template used to demolish the Babri Masjid.
A year apart, Tablighi Jamaat and Mahakumbh: Two religions two approaches
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Tablighi Jamaat was blamed last year for spreading COVID-19 and the entire Muslim community was vilified. But the Mahakumbh won’t have to face such wrath.
The “Rohingya infiltrators” bogey: The BJP’s old strategy in the 2021 assembly polls
Reading Time: 4 minutes Using the “Rohingya infiltrators” bogey to intensify xenophobia, the BJP is dehumanising the victims of one of the world’s goriest genocide.
50 Years of “Operation Searchlight” and plight of Bengali refugees
Reading Time: 6 minutes On the 50th year of “Operation Searchlight” genocide by the Pakistani Army let’s revisit the plight of the Bengali-speaking refugees in India
Bengali Bhadralok’s “secular” Islamophobia manifested in anti-Abbas Siddique slurs
Reading Time: 5 minutes As Abbas Sidddique joined the Left and the Congress for the forthcoming 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, Islamophobia erupted everywhere.
One year of Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom: Looking back at the ordeal
Reading Time: 6 minutes After one year of the Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom, the Muslims remain at the receiving end of injustice and vilification drive of the BJP.
Disha Ravi ‘Joseph’ and being a Christian in Hindutva fascism-ruled India
Reading Time: 7 minutes If the arrest of Dish Ravi for sharing a “protest toolkit” wasn’t enough, Hindutva fascists turned her into a Christian now to vilify her.
Nishan Sahib—the Khalsa flag—over India’s Red Fort on Republic Day
Reading Time: 3 minutes On India’s 71st Republic Day—which commemorates the adoption of the country’s constitution—Indian farmers, with Sikhs from the state of Punjab leading the charge, entered New Delhi as they continued their […]
Can the recent anti-Muslim violence in Madhya Pradesh help the BJP?
Reading Time: 2 minutes The recent anti-Muslim violence in Madhya Pradesh is an attempt by the BJP and the RSS to deflate the farmers’ movement with communalism.
Can “love jihad” bogey help Yogi Adityanath to retain support base?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Can Yogi Adityanath retain the BJP’s eroding Dalit support base by using the “love jihad” bogey and by persecuting Muslim men using new laws?
Inside Brahmin Bhata and Durga Puja doles of Mamata Bandopadhyay
Reading Time: 4 minutes Though the Mamata Bandopadhyay regime is trying to use Brahmin Bhata to woo the Hindu votebank, can such measures help it withstand the BJP?
Babri Masjid demolition verdict showed Muslims their place in Modi-fied India
Reading Time: 5 minutes After the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict, a CBI court’s Babri Masjid demolition verdict reaffirmed the position of Muslims in Modi-fied India
NIA arrests Muslims again to help Modi sail through anti-incumbency waves
Reading Time: 3 minutes Under the guise of busting an al-Qaeda network, the NIA is targeting hapless Muslims. These arrests will help Modi sail through rough sea.
Tahir Hussain remains the Islamophobic state’s demonised victim
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tahir Hussain is a most-despised name due to the incessant media demonisation and Islamophobic vitriol against him. Can he get justice ever?
Naqvi’s “heaven for Muslims” is actually worse than hell
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi called India a “heaven for Muslims” opposing the OIC’s allegation of sponsoring Islamophobia, which became a joke of the town recently.