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MALIK NISAR It is 11 am in the morning and Sajad, instead of attending conferences, is busy fencing the apple garden on the outskirts of his village. This may become a routine as India’s education body, University Grants Commission is likely to put a brake on his studies. Sajad completed …

(Scroll.in) She stood her ground even as the other rape complainants withdrew their cases. Nearly a decade later, is a verdict anywhere in sight?

Shaheen Abdulla Nargis,20, is anxious about how to feed her eight-month-old infant. The tragedy of losing her first child two years ago haunts her. But her husband is absconding since police began raiding Muslim houses after communal violence broke out in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Hanuman Jayanti, 16 April this year. …

Akansha Deshmukh It’s been two months since anti-Muslim violence broke in Madhya Prashe’s Khargone. The city is still limping back to normalcy after violence broke out on April 10 on Ram Navami. There is stillness in the town after a month of curfew and other restrictions. Following a 25-day long …

(The Print) The police allege he made speeches to provoke violence as Muslims protested against BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s comments on June 10.

(The Wire) In every Bihar village, it is not uncommon to see groups of young men doing rigorous exercises early in the morning. For them, the respect and financial security of Army jobs had made the forces the top choice.

SHREEGIREESH JALIHAL AND TAPASYA   On May 5, 2022, the WHO estimated that 100.51 lakh people died in India in 2020. Of this, it estimated 8.30 lakh were COVID-linked deaths. In its May 5 press release rejecting the WHO figures, the Union health ministry claimed that 81.20 lakh people died …

Zenaira Bakhsh On the night of June 11, when 19-year-old Sumaiya Fatima told the police that her sister, Afreen Fatima was an activist and a student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the police changed their tone. What followed was a long night of questioning and harassment against the alleged involvement …

(The Wire) From the 'key conspirator' named by police to those arrested, respective families have alleged that those who had little to do with the violence have been picked up simply because they were Muslim. Police said, 'Those who are innocent will be let off.'

Malik Nisar and Sajad Hameed “We wish to stay back in our homeland but the situation is not conducive. Our people are getting killed regularly. We were kept confined to one place and in such a choked environment it’s difficult to survive,” says 33-year-old Amit Bandoo, exhausted with the situation. …