(Rising Kashmir) Someone has said the child in you never dies. While admiring the snowflakes piling up; I wondered where the child in me had gone
Read More »Article: Kashmir snowfall and the tales of yore
Feature: Has BJP planned to take revenge on Sikh community for reversal of farm laws?
Sikh Community in India after winning a year-long social fight against BJP is now under another kind of danger—this time it is the wrath of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who believes that Sikhs have eroded his political base and they must be penalized and punished. Independent Indian media indicates that …
Read More »Article: Why India is witnessing spike in attacks on Christians, churches?
Neel Madhav and Alishan Jafri In late October, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met and invited Pope Francis to India, the country with the second-largest Christian population in Asia. However, in a speech about two weeks earlier, Mohan Bhagwat, head of the far-right Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological mentor …
Read More »Feature: Saffron terror: Christians in India hold clandestine gatherings at night; secret baptism
Amidst the festivities of Christmas across the world, the Christians in India have been reduced to holding clandestine religious gatherings and secret baptisms as RSS goons never tolerate the non-Hindu rituals. Any non-Hindu religion has become a liability in Modi’s India as vicious Hindutva ideology, seeking Hindu domination in India, …
Read More »Article: Let’s fulfill Quaid’s commitment with Kashmiris
Humayun Aziz Sandeela Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had realized it quite earlier that without Kashmir Pakistan would be incomplete. Due to his indefatigable commitment with the people of Kashmir, he made concerted efforts to get Kashmir liberated from India’s illegal occupation. His vision on Kashmir was unequivocal. His insight has …
Read More »Editorial (The News): A people oppressed
The news from Indian-occupied Kashmir has been grim since 2019 when the BJP government ended the partial autonomy available to the state and split it into two union territories. In addition, the mass displacement of Kashmiris was encouraged and other groups permitted to purchase land in an area from which …
Read More »Article: Modi, Kejriwal don’t think Omicron is spreading locally. So why are they prepping for a crisis?
(The Wire) Our situation would be laughable if there weren’t lives at stake: two major political leaders, one heading the country and the other the capital, have played down the extent of the problem yet are openly preparing for a crisis.
Read More »Article: The viva marks discrimination controversy is not really new to JNU
(The Wire) Students say that the fact that those belonging to marginalised communities have been allotted single digit scores in the 2021 PhD viva exams across different centres points to a deeper rot.
Read More »Feature: Mental health is on the brink in Kashmir
(News Click) Experts believe that higher psychiatric disorders contribute to increased suicide rates in conflict zones, as mental health is often overlooked in focus on the physical aspects of trauma.
Read More »Feature: Indian jails: Over 55% under trial inmates are Muslims, Dalits and tribals
Abdul Bari Masoud In its latest analysis on prison occupancy, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) revealed that the last two years witnessed over 23 percent increase in Indian jails which have already overcrowded and have the most inhuman conditions. The report said over nine lakh more were arrested during …
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