(The Wire) Cases like the one on the Gyanvapi Mosque show how the legal system is being used to promote disorder.
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Article: The bulldozer is reshaping our cities and our imaginations
(The Wire) Recent punitive demolition drives by administrations following orders without official procedure reflect a willingness to dispossess anyone the state labels as ‘anti-social elements’, supporting the regime’s agenda of dehumanisation.
Read More »Feature: Arm Chopped Off Over ‘786’ Tattoo, Charged Under POCSO, Acquitted at Last: The Story of Akhlaq
(The Wire) In 2020, Akhlaq was the victim of what he and his family alleges was a brutal anti-Muslim hate crime. While the FIR on the attack on him has gone 'nowhere', a POCSO case slapped on him has now resulted in an acquital.
Read More »Feature: Demolition, resettlement: Tale of two colonies in Delhi
Aisha Siddiqui “In the 60 years we have lived here, we arranged a house for ourselves, water and electricity, they ask us to raze our home to the ground and take the land, where will we go?” asks Pushpa, a resident of Pant Nagar South Indian Camp. In Madanpur-Khadar, a …
Read More »Article: Pakistan Feels for Afghanistan
Faridullah Farid The last prophet and messenger of Allah,Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W.W) said, “The believers in their love, mutual compassion and intimate relationships are like one body; when any section suffers, the whole body responds with alertness and fever. The faithful are like one man: if his eyes suffer, so does …
Read More »Article: ‘This time, Muslims of India will resist’: Shashi Tharoor on Varanasi
Shashi Tharoor The controversy over a court order authorising a video inspection of the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi is one more reminder that in India debates over history are not confined to the distant past alone. The assumption behind the request is that the mosque was built on a demolished …
Read More »Feature: Marriage with Hindu woman leaves a Muslim family miserable in Madhya Pradesh
Zenaira Bakhsh In Madhya Pradesh‘s Dindori village, on 5 April, 24-year-old Asif received a phone call from 22-year-old Sahu, she told him that her parents were sending her to a relative’s home to keep her away from Asif and to avoid communal violence. The couple met in a nearby village …
Read More »Feature: Commission in Disha Encounter Case says cops’ version ‘concocted’, wants murder charges against 10 officers
(The Wire) The panel also found that police have deliberately attempted to suppress the fact that at least three of the deceased were minors – two of them 15 years old.
Read More »Article: The Kashmir Files: Myth or reality (Part 4)
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai “Terrorism-related charges leveled against me are concocted, fabricated and politically motivated” and that “If seeking Azadi (Freedom) is a crime, then I am ready to accept this crime and its consequences,” Yasin Malik said during the trial, reported by Associated Press. I believe that the loss …
Read More »Feature: 20-year-old’s death not ‘chance encounter’ but ‘civilian killing,’ say family, witnesses
(The Wire) The death of 20-year-old Shoaib Muhammad Ganai is only the latest in a long list of civilian deaths in which the official narrative differs from what the victims' families claim.
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