(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.
Read More »Article: Disdained Indians are happily embracing Islam being a true religion
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, …
Read More »Article: Press in Kashmir
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 …
Read More »Feature: Tête-à-tête with Jahangirpuri Boy, the symbol of human misery in the face of bulldozed hopes
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 …
Read More »Article: Raging anti-Muslim hysteria in India
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 …
Read More »Article: Indian Muslims going through darkest phase in history
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 …
Read More »Article: Russia-Ukraine crisis brought international isolation for India
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 …
Read More »Opinion: Unending ordeal of three Kashmiri students jailed for India-Pakistan cricket match post
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, …
Read More »Post 2019, Indian unlawful actions & delimitation of IIOJK
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 …
Read More »Article: Jahangirpuri demolitions: Legal position, facts and data; A quick read
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 …
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