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(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 …

Dr Samina Salim This morning as I was fixing my suhoor I scrolled through my phone and saw a message from a friend. The title of the video ‘Bhagwan aur Khuda” piqued my curiosity and I immediately opened the message to see the video. It was a poem recitation from …

Humra Quraishi Three sure ways to kill a person or an entire community. Either shoot him or her dead but then questions could be raised even though you could heap all sorts of wild allegations on the victim and with that justify the swift killing. The second way is to …

Farid Ullah Khan India’s decision to reject UN Security Council resolution and to abstain from voting on UNHCR resolution against Russia resulted in considerable worldwide criticism and isolation for India, which came at a time when she was attempting to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Following …

Ubeer Naqushbandi Six months in jail, suspension from college, denial of surety bond, are some of the repercussions that the three Kashmiri boys—Showkat Ahmed Ganai, Inayat Altaf Sheikh and Arshid Yousuf—are facing, while their families are frantically trying to secure their release. Srinagar, April 22 (KMS): At Bandipora’s Shahgund village, …

Farid Ullah Khan Delimitation of constituencies by BJP-led government in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) is giving more assembly seats to minority Hindu populace over Muslim majority populace. It has not only hurt the sentiments of people of Kashmir on both sides of the border but also united …

Maktoob Staff A brief note by Land Conflict Watch on the much-criticised move of BJP controlled North Delhi Municipal Corporation’s “demolition drive” in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri. Land Conflict Watch is an independent network of researchers studying land conflicts, climate change and natural resource governance in India. On April 20, after letter …