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Zenaira Bakhsh It was a regular morning in New Delhi’s Jahangirpuri until a few hours after they began fasting, the residents were jolted awake by the sound of bulldozer wrecking their shops and stalls. Sabina Bibi, a 24-year-old resident went out to check what the chaos was all about when …

Nasir Khuehami and Ummar Jamal Historic Mughal Road, an alternative road, to connect the bordering districts of Rajouri and Poonch to Srinagar continues to be closed since December last year. The road was closed following massive snowfall at Pir ki Gali and in the adjoining region more than four months …

(Scroll.in) ‘Bulldozer justice’, like mob justice, is only to satiate the bloodlust and frenzy that has been whipped up and unleashed for the past eight years.

(Scroll.in) Unemployment rates touched 25% in March, according to one survey.

Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai ‘Early reviews in the Indian media had found the film deeply Islamophobic, dishonest, and a provocation.’ Sanjay Kak, Kashmiri Pandit filmmaker and writer This movie feeds into cycles of hate and revenge. It collapses Kashmir’s history and politics into an Islamophobic morality tale that is palatable …

Pamela Philipose This reference to India as the “world’s largest democracy”, a term widely used during the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent charm offensive in India, requires to be subjected to serious critical review. Indeed, India may soon become the largest country in the world by virtue of its …

(Clarion India) The residents, most of whom are either rag pickers or vendors selling wares on carts, lament that they are living in a fortress behind grilled gates in lanes and bylanes. They are not allowed to venture out or go about their daily routine.

Farid Ullah Khan Forty people from eight Dalit communities in Dombicheri Village, Tamil Nadu, India, recently embraced Islam after discovering that life among the upper caste Hindus was a nightmare, and that Islam is a religion of peace and equality for all, regardless of caste, race, colouror gender. In India, …

A.G. Noorani In its entire history, even at the best of times, press freedom in Kashmir has suffered constraints that were absent in the subcontinent. This was particularly true of the phase from 1947 to 1953 when Shaikh Mohammed Abdullah was prime minister of Jammu & Kashmir. Tolerance of dissent …

Zafar Aafaq New Delhi:  Visuals of a boy collecting coins from the rubble of his father’s shop razed by MCD bulldozer during a demolition drive in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri emerged as a symbolic image of the helplessness in the face of state cruelty. Clarion India spoke to the boy named Asif …