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In a country where Islamophobia has intensified, three Indian Muslim women describe their encounters with Delhi-based private firms where they were chastised, humiliated, and pressured to disown their religious identity.
Muslim women are in favour of gender-just laws, but Muslim women’s groups recognise that the women have to contest both the Muslim Personal Law and the politics around the demonisation of everything that is Muslim.
What happened to Professor Tejaswini Desai of Kolhapur can happen to anyone in the teaching community. It tells you of the perils of being a teacher in India of our times
Uniformity versus Equal Rights: The 21st Law Commission report can and should form the basis for taking forward the struggle for women’s equal rights across communities; why is the BJP refusing to discuss this report. Also: “Why the Uniform Civil Code has Few Takers in the North East”.
Egypt’s president conferred on PM Modi the ‘Order of the Nile’. The Grand Mufti of Egypt discussed communal harmony with him. And yet, memories of the Gujarat carnage and daily news of lynchings make such updates sound hollow.
Cultural diversity, as the 21st law commission said, cannot be compromised to the extent that an urge for uniformity becomes the reason for a threat to the territorial integrity of the democratic nation. Also: Flavia Agnes, an eminent lawyer, questions the timing and intention of raking up the UCC.
Book Review: The author dubs the BJP’s efforts to connect with the Muslim community, especially the Pasmandas, through “Sneh Yatras” and other outreach initiatives, as tokenistic, part of BJP’s vote bank politics, and as efforts to pit Muslims against one another.
Gita Press, Gorakhpur, has been awarded the 2022 Gandhi Peace Prize. Award to the Gita Press has shocked all those who cherish Gandhian values, humanism and civilized norms.
Vidya Bharati schools across the country use false claims, cultural indoctrination and consistent anti-Muslim rhetoric to instil Hindutva ideology in young minds.
Letter expressing concern over the alarming rise of hate speech, vigilantism, and targeted communal violence against the minority Muslim community in Uttarakhand in the last few days.
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