Discrimination
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‘Pray tell, how much more will you harass?’: The subtext of a song on Assam’s embattled Miyas
An unknown woman’s song is an appeal to a universal humanity but some have claimed the singer is not truly Assamese based on her appearance and dialect.
Suraj Gogoi & Nazimuddin Siddique
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India’s scaling up of AI could reproduce casteist bias, discrimination against women and minorities
Even if technology can be considered ‘neutral’, the databases used to train such models are biased along the country’s many faultlines.
Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Row in IIT-Bombay over posters for separate eating space for vegetarian students
The posters declaring that ‘vegetarians only are allowed to sit here’ had been put up on walls of the canteen of Hostel 12 last week.
Scroll Staff
Trending
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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What a Guwahati restaurant’s menu says about majoritarian discrimination in Assam
In stating its refusal to serve ‘doubtful citizenship/illegal immigrants’, the little-known restaurant has sought to transform itself into an NRC authority.
Angshuman Choudhury
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Monthly income of SCs and STs Rs 5,000 less than others, shows Oxfam India report
The report also found that Muslim and women faced discrimination in earnings.
Scroll Staff
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DMK leader Kanimozhi alleges CISF officer asked her if she was Indian for not knowing Hindi
The Central Industrial Security Force has ordered a probe into the incident.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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Reality check: Life after being labelled lesbian and thrown out of Benares Hindu University hostel
A first year student tries to recover from the social stigma of a label that should not have been treated as a crime to begin with.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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How Indians are making things worse for women with mental disabilities
The stigma begins at home.
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
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Government panel demands special hate crimes unit to prevent violence against North Easterners
The Bezbaruah panel also wants a hate crime law to be passed.
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
The Reel
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer