The ‘Love Jihad’ Bogey in Kashmir Is Another Attempt to Deny Women Freedom of Choice
This hate propaganda assumes that adult women who consent to relationships with Muslims are gullible and must be rescued by gallant men.
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This hate propaganda assumes that adult women who consent to relationships with Muslims are gullible and must be rescued by gallant men.
Assam’s new Cattle Preservation Bill violates Article 48 of the Constitution and will give a fillip to vigilantism.
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey alleged that many innocent people were also arrested earlier on “false charges of terrorism”. He said dozens of youth have been later acquitted by courts after they had spent several years behind bars.
Israel is one of the world’s most militarized and securitized countries. It is also the eighth largest arms exporter in the world. Through its arms exports, Israel is shaping the coercive dimensions of states everywhere, bringing the politics and methodology of occupation to its allies abroad.
In this open letter written in August 2018 after he was charged with sedition, Fr Stan Swamy listed all the activities that have made him a ‘Desh Drohi’: “During the past two decades, I have identified myself with the Adivasi people and their struggle for a life of dignity and self-respect….”
Freedom of opinion and freedom of association are ‘the two lungs that are absolutely necessary for a man to breathe the oxygen of liberty’, he wrote.
The threat of a declining Hindu population and growing minority numbers lacks a basis in logic and facts.
It is imperative to ‘be unreasonable’ in a dark time! Not only does it keep hope alive in oneself, but it also inspires it in others, too. Despair may be contagious, but courage is much more so.
This article is an attempt to bring forth the ecological and environmental disasters that await over a fragile ecosystem, as a consequence of the new rules and regulations of the recently appointed administrator of Lakshadweep, Praful Khoda Patel.
The claim of Indians that they respect all religions does not square up with their attitudes towards religious communities to which they do not belong.
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