Category Minority Rights
By Irfan Engineer Neha Dabhade Communal polarization in the year 2020 was primarily heightened with the help of structural violence and attitudinal violence, or what is also popularly termed at hate crimes, rather than by physical violence. In the previous… Continue Reading →
8 March 2021 Women in war zones are the best peace-makers, yet they rarely get a place at negotiation tables dominated by men. Iranian gender activist and senior adviser to the UN Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini is working to change that. Sanam’s grandfather advised… Continue Reading →
‘Dalit Literature is the literature of self-respect and pride of those who were oppressed and deprived for centuries. … clearly, love won’t ooze from our words, only anger will. This anger is sort of a building block of Dalit Literature.’… Continue Reading →
A magnificent piece of investigative film-making by Shubhradeep Chakravarty who tragically passed away just a few years after making this film and other hard hitting exposes of the regime that now rules India. Encountered on Saffron Agenda is a documentary… Continue Reading →
One year since his incarceration, a man who campaigned against hate crime is defending himself in three cases, including the Delhi riots conspiracy case, which invoked India’s anti-terror law. In one bail order, the judge highlighted the “vindictiveness” of the… Continue Reading →
Emphasising the right of a woman to exercise her agency while choosing a spouse, the Himachal High Court said that “a girl is not cattle.” It recognised that the constitution prohibits discrimination based on caste and doing so is a… Continue Reading →
Defending our land is NOT A CRIME!” And yet, 14 villagers of Sab Wai village, Thailand, have been unfairly convicted of trespassing, utilizing, and clearing land in Sai Thong national park, a land on which they have been living for generations, making their… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 18, 2021 The Chief Justice of India looked down from the middle chair in Court Number 1 and very calmly, almost in a cold tone, asked the counsel for the Christian community: Will any bishop tell the… Continue Reading →
by- K.P.Sasi Well known writer, Kamla Surayya was born in a conservative Nair Hindu family (Nalappat) in 1934. She embraced Islam in 1999 at the Age of 65 and changed her name from Kamla Das to Kamla Surayya. Many conservative… Continue Reading →
Irfan Engineer and Neha Dabhade Introduction: In part one of this report, the authors observed that based on media reportage monitored by Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), though physical violence has declined in the forms of communal… Continue Reading →