At a time when interfaith marriages are being criminalised and censored across India like never before, the actor's wedding comes as a booster shot for young interfaith and intercaste …
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The Dangerous Agenda Behind Probing Interfaith Marriages
The Maharashtra government panel will make life harder for both women wanting to exercise their choice and minorities.
MP College Takes Teachers Off Duty After ABVP Claims They Promoted ‘Negative Thoughts’ on Govt, Army
While the principal of the Indore government college has alleged that ABVP's claims are not true, he called them 'serious' and said a retired district court judge will conduct …
Shraddha Walkar and Beyond: How Media Coverage Is Shaping Perceptions
In most cases of sexual violence, big media highlights the accused’s name only when he happens to be Muslim.
Shraddha Walkar Murder: Stop Asking Why She Did Not Leave
The discourse surrounding the brutal murder in the national capital shows that there is little awareness about the complexities of an abusive relationship or the dynamics of gendered violence.
Delhi Murder: Six Ways To Use Our Anger To Fight Violence Against Women
The grisly murder of Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawalla in the national capital has generated a lot of pain and anger. Here's what can be …
Living Without a Surname
This poem is about what it means to be a mother of a Muslim child in today's India.
Fajr Has Ended
'I sit upon a cold ground with bruised cheeks... Held close is a ripped cloth, but a faith increased.'
Hinduism: A Way of Life or the Only Way of Life?
In 2015, a German man asked me if I was a Hindu. In 2022, we are obsessed with who isn't a Hindu.
A Poem on Spring, a Saffron Victory and on Being a Muslim
A poem on the turn India is taking, and the fear of dark times ahead in the hearts of minority communities.