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Lawyer and famed writer Banu Mushtaq explains why she believes Muslim students shouldn’t have taken the hijab fight to court, how the Sangh Parivar destroyed the credibility of public intellectuals and appropriated the legacy of Basava, a 12th century Lingayat saint who envisaged a casteless society.
The court should have recognised that educational spaces in a plural and diverse society ought to reflect its plurality and diversity, and facilitating the freedom of choice and expression is one crucial way to achieve that.
The film is exploitative in the extreme, made to rouse emotions and build up a particular mood against Indian Muslims. Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is emerging as the favourite filmmaker of the BJP and has received the party’s full support.
Thanks to the Shaheen Bagh women, my daughters, and a million others, have real life role models.
Unfortunately for Adityanath and Narendra Modi, the ‘80-20’ statement not only exposes the central role communal hatred plays for the BJP in elections but the actual election result has thrown up contrarian arithmetic.
Uttar Pradesh didn’t even have an opposition until now. Today, at least, there is a strong opposition, albeit one that the people have created on their own.
Gandhi emphatically rejected the suggestion that the majority community had the right to dominate politics and governance in the country.
If we are to do any justice to the Constitutional mandate of equality before law, and the right to legal representation, we must put in place a mechanism to provide competent and effective legal aid to all those who cannot afford it, particularly to those languishing in jail.
While the protest meeting itself was peaceful and without police presence, trouble started as the protesters returned home and nine people were arrested.
If the coal project moves ahead despite the villagers’ resistance, it will decimate villages, farmlands and forests, and pollute the Badmahi river, an important lifeline of the region. It will also have severe climatic impacts over time, including erratic crop cycles and unseasonal rains.
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