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    Indian academia is rife with research and publishing misconduct

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    Gujarat Samachar: A newspaper with a long history of criticising Modi is now under siege

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    ‘Ideas, Thoughts and Memories’: A rich anthology of literary essays by Bengal’s foremost writers

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    Ramachandra Guha: How thinking patriots should view the renewed hyphenation of India with Pakistan

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    ‘Informing Pakistan at start of Operation Sindoor was a crime’: Rahul Gandhi questions S Jaishankar

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    Women and Operation Sindoor: The gap between optics and reality

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    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

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'Being a woman is a crime’: Female student in Afghanistan makes powerful statement in men’s clothes

‘I have been forced to wear men’s clothes to show that no man is willing to stand up for women's rights.’

Scroll Staff
Jan 04, 2023 · 06:39 pm
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A female student of Herat university recorded a video of herself wearing men's clothes because "being a woman in Afghanistan is now a crime."

She asks the world not forget them as they fight for Afghanistans freedom.

"This time it's a women's revolution"

به امید آزادی. pic.twitter.com/JATN2arKad

— Shabnam Nasimi (@NasimiShabnam) January 3, 2023
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