"It has been too much & too long" 28 Jan 2025 marks 5 years of Sharjeel Imam's incarceration. Accused in 8 cases in 5 states, PhD scholar remains jailed in Delhi riots conspiracy case. Bail plea before Delhi High Court has been pending for 2 yrs 9 months article-14.com/post/in-violat…

Hate speech rallies are attended by elected officials, they celebrate bulldozing Muslim homes. Lynch mobs get political backing. This isn't fringe behavior, it’s mainstream. Politicians, MPs, MLAs, openly demonize Muslims, spreading hate without consequence 2/n

Instead of accountability,they are rewarded. The everyday impact?Muslim kids are bullied in schools,families struggle to rent homes,businesses are boycotted, jobs denied.Festivals turn into intimidation tactics outside Mosques.Even the right to eat or sell food is restricted 3/n

Booming Tourism, Dying Ecosystems: Uttarakhand’s Fragile Future by Noman Siddiqui countercurrents.org/2025/03/boomin… On a recent visit to Uttarakhand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated projects worth over ₹6000 crore, including ropeways to Kedarnath and Hemkund Sahib. While hailed

#Uttarakhand Booming Tourism, Dying Ecosystems: Uttarakhand’s Fragile Future. Growth at the cost of destruction, how long can this last? My piece for Countercurrents.org #Ecocrisis #SaveOurHills countercurrents.org/2025/03/boomin…

“Aurangzeb is controversial not so much because of India's past but rather because of India's present” — Audrey Truschke, Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth Full Video: youtube.com/watch?v=SdcYAA… #PoliticsOfHistory #WeaponisationOfHistory #Aurangzeb #IndianHistory #AudreyTruschke

In 2024, the India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the most frequent organizer of hate speech events, directly sponsoring and facilitating 340 such gatherings, which accounted for 29.2% of all documented incidents. BJP played a central role in orchestrating these

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But what about Aurangzeb?

Are welfare schemes unfairly dismissed as "freebies" used to buy votes? Prof. Reetika Khera sits down with Ali Javed to challenge that idea, and show why welfare is a citizen’s right, not a freebie. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=XgTgJX… #freebiepolitics #RevdiCulture #Welfare

#Nainital Anjuman Islamia Committee Nainital has condemned the incident saying we stand with the minor girl & the perpetrator should be punished. They've also requested the administration to take action against those who've attacked the mosque & those disrupting peace

In recent years, Nainital has witnessed multiple heinous crimes against women-each deeply tragic. Yet, similar past cases didn't provoke such reactions, here's a list of such cases: navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/uttarakh…

"Where was the Police when innocent traders were being beaten up?"- poses this to a group of policemen accompanying the protesters 4/4

to remember: "Hindutva is not a Hindu-Muslim problem; it is a Hindu problem that needs to be fought in Hindu spaces..." telegraphindia.com/opinion/six-st…

Courage comes from clarity in your mind. We all can be like this young woman.

The moment that ended McCarthy era is kind of a convenient myth. That aside, it conveys a truism. Such RW rowdyism ends when enough Hindus stand up in their own societal spaces & say their variant of: "You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?" telegraphindia.com/opinion/six-st…

6.) Ahh almost forgot, modi and co have prepared an army of monkeys for television, they believe the monkeys dance at their bidding, but the very existence of the monkeys has trapped the modi lot into performances they cannot sustain, like this one...

Oh the bitter irony of speaking on the "absence of Muslim women from the public sphere," while opposing every single policy on affirmative action as "Muslim appeasement." Have some shame. We rise from our ghettoes despite you.