(Scroll.in) A plethora of handles promoting obscene content showcasing Muslim women as submissive to Hindu men thrives on the platform.
Read More »Feature: How Twitter’s liberal policy on porn allows Indian Muslim women to be harassed
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Feature: Condition of evicted Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam’s Darrang ‘precarious’
(Clarion India) A delegation of Janhastakshep which met the victims flays the ‘criminal mindset of the state machinery’ and demands from the government to ensure safety of the evicted people and withdraw the Land Policy of 2019
Read More »Feature: T20 World Cup: When Indian fans are jailed for celebrating Pakistan’s win
(BBC) When it comes to cricket, passions run high in both nations, but these latest arrests in India have come as a shock to many who feel that the space for freedom of expression is shrinking fast
Read More »Feature: The old SRK wouldn’t have kept quiet about his son’s arrest
(The Quartz) While sensationalist TV news channels plastered Aryan’s face all over the screen, a government minister’s son who allegedly ploughed into a farmer’s protest, killing eight people, roamed scot-free for a week.
Read More »Feature: ‘While I’m Alive, I’ll Keep Speaking.’ Journalist Rana Ayyub’s fight to expose the truth in India
(Time) Although India is often called the world’s largest democracy, U.S.-based nonprofit Freedom House downgraded India from “free” to “partly free” in March 2021, citing a decline in civil liberties since Modi came to power in 2014, including the intimidation of journalists and activists.
Read More »Feature: In presence of BJP bigwigs, Chhattisgarh Hindutva leader calls for beheading minorities
(The Wire) 'It’s important to ignite the fire sometimes. I am telling you; anyone who comes into your house, street, neighbourhood, village, don’t forgive them,' Swami Parmatmanand said.
Read More »Feature: ‘Nobody forced us to leave’
(The Kashmiriyat) Amid chaos, non-locals narrate stories of love they received from Kashmiris and they dismiss the narratives created by the mainstream media in India
Read More »Feature: Hindutva leader, linked to BJP and Narsinghanand, assaults Muslim man in train
(The Wire) In the video, Madhu Sharma is seen to be pulling the Muslim man by his hair and slapping him. The only sentence the Muslim man is heard saying is, "Maine to dekha bhi nahi. (I didn't even notice.)"
Read More »Feature: Even during Press Council’s probe trip to Kashmir, intimidation of journalists continued
(The Wire) Detention, questioning and harassment continues to be the norm for journalists in the Valley, as the space for critical reporting shrinks.
Read More »Suicides, fratricides rising among soliders in Kashmir
On Thursday, Sepoy Deeraj Kumar of the Engineering Unit posted at Kralpora pointed the barrel of his service rifle towards him and died by suicide by fired himself with his service rifle in Kupwara – frontier district of Jammu and Kashmir.
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