Fighting Discrimination
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‘Shocked at silence of PM’: 13 Opposition leaders issue joint statement against communal violence
The leaders alleged that Narendra Modi’s silence is testimony to the fact that ‘private armed mobs enjoy the luxury of official patronage’.
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Fear, deception and intimidation pillars of Modi government, writes Sonia Gandhi
The Congress chief accused the government of pitting Indians against each other on the basis of ‘dress, food, faith, festival and language’.
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‘Art should have no religion’: Kerala minister urges temple to allow ‘non-Hindu’ dancers to perform
The Koodalmanikayam Temple has barred Bharatanatyam exponent Mansiya VP and dancer Soumya Sukumaran from participating in a 10-day festival.
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Trending
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BBC is independent, says UK on documentary about Narendra Modi
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How did the Hyderabad Police race against time to recover stolen artefacts from the Nizam’s Museum?
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India is now the world’s most populous nation – but there’s no reason to be worried
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‘I turned my impatience into something useful’: Ruth Ozeki, winner of 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction
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Aaj Tak says its anchors will report on Budget 2023 suspended from a tower at a height of 160 feet
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Three dancers withdraw from Kerala temple festival after it bars ‘non-Hindu’ Bharatanatyam artist
‘I cannot perform dance on that stage by writing ‘Hindu’ to my art,’ one of them wrote on Facebook.
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‘Non-Hindu’ Bharatanatyam dancer stopped from performing in Kerala temple
Around 800 artists are slated to perform at a 10-day festival at the Koodalmanikyam Temple and they have all only been allowed if they identify as Hindu.
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Bahrain authorities shut Indian restaurant for allegedly denying entry to woman wearing veil
The alleged incident took place at the Lanterns restaurant, located in the Adliya area of the country’s capital Manama.
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Video
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Watch: Indian women’s cricket team take on the ‘Tum Tum’ dance challenge in the dressing room
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‘Journalism is not a crime’: Siddique Kappan after being released on bail after more than two years
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Caught on CCTV: Man steals gorilla statue kept outside a shop
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Watch: Tiger walks freely in tea garden, unbothered when car comes up close
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Watch: Students climb gate to enter exam centre because they were late
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Watch: Delhi hotel denies room to Kashmiri man, cites fake police directive
Oyo Rooms said that it took the hotel off its platform and that its ‘rooms and hearts are open for everyone’.
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Kashmiri tenant accuses landlady of calling her terrorist, trespassing, theft; police register case
The Delhi Commission For Women has issued a notice to the police and sought an action taken report along with a copy of the FIR by October 19.
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Don’t trust the false advertising. Liberal British universities are still endemically racist
Through in-depth interviews with academics, I discovered troubling stories of racism.
Katy Sian, The Conversation
The Reel
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Bowing out in style: Soumitra Chatterjee’s late-career gems ‘Bela Seshe’ and ‘Mayurakshi’
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‘Lost’ trailer: Yami Gautam Dhar plays a journalist investigating a disappearance
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‘The Romantics’ trailer: Docuseries pays tribute to the Yash Raj Films legacy
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Film ‘Follower’ crawls inside the mind of a social media troll in Belgaum
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Shah Rukh Khan on ‘Pathaan’ success: ‘Have forgotten those four years in the last four days’
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‘How could you have been raped?’: New study on how India’s transgender people face bias from doctors
A new study uncovers reasons for discrimination against transgender patients by the medical community.
Ankur Paliwal
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How Delhi excludes the disabled, single women, and Muslims from a regular existence
A report from the India Exclusion Report on discrimination in the capital.
Rajanya Bose & NC Saxena
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Australia: Sikh family wins case against school that refused a boy admission for wearing a turban
The tribunal held that the institute cannot reject an application on the grounds that students look like they are not Christian.
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The Field
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Football: Attempted rape charges against Manchester United’s Mason Greenwood dropped
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Football: French World Cup winner Raphael Varane announces international retirement
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Davis Cup: Against Holger Rune’s Denmark, India opt not to play it by the book
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Tri-series final, IND vs SA blog: Chloe Tryon’s 57 takes South Africa to a win in low-scorer
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Thailand Masters: Sai Praneeth sole India in QFs; Kiran George, Ashmita Chaliha lose thrillers