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Tabrez Ansari’s Death Is Not The First Of Its Kind, And Will Not Be The Last

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 People, specifically the Muslim youth, should not see the killing of Tabrez Ansari as an isolated incident. In our country, many castes and communities have been targeted by the same people for long time. To understand those events, you will have to look at contemporary history carefully. For example, the Adivasis of this country have been suffering for a long time. They occupy the social periphery due to continued suffering. Members of the Dalit community of our country have been penalized for ages. Because of Dr Ambedkar’s politics, Dalit voices could continue to be assertive. But, we must remember, those who killed Tabrez also killed the assertive Dalit voice, and all three of these were built under the provision of Indian constitution. For example, the Kashmiri people have also suffered for decades, and of course, we all know how many Kashmiri Pandits have lost their homes. Whether the Congress rules or the BJP rules, hatred brigades are always at work, spreadin...

As An Indian, I Celebrate Eid The Same Way I Celebrate Holi

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  We are in the midst of majoritarian state in the many of the countries including in ours. I would like to share about the people of the civil Society, some time I had doubt about their understanding of the society or religions. There are no confusions about their dedications for raising voices for the marginalized, but somewhere they are also in the same boat, as far as understanding of the society, religion or Indigenous people are concerned. I have observed for last twelve years, they will be conscious for majority community, while they prepare work plan or any event to be organized. But, even many people from Civil Society or activist background never considered festival or cultural events of the minorities groups. Today, I got call from one of my fried, he/she was inquiring with me, Tauqueer, when is the Eid , and what is this Eid? Sweet Eid or Eid for sacrifice of goat ? He/she is in his/her early f ourty . He/she has done remarkable work in his/her field for ...

Rahul Gandhi And The Future Of Congress Party

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   Rahul Gandhi has decided to resign from his post as Congress president. This was unexpected in contemporary India’s current standard of political ethics. Certainly his party requires major restructuring to stay relevant. For the last 10 years, the Congress party has failed to build a strong narrative to counter the ruling BJP. BJP and its parent organisation RSS, has a very clear agenda, with a consistency to roll-out their vision of majoritarian nationalism. Even if Rahul Gandhi tried to follow soft Hindutva to counter them, why would someone pick soft instead of the original Hindutva? We need Congress, but not a dented one. For quite some time Rahul has been trying to change the outlook of the party. There are many evidences that prove that Rahul had tried to revive some of the outfits of the Congress party like the Youth Congress, Mahila Congress and NSUI. In 2019 assembly elections, Congress failed to build a narrative to attract new audience and Gandhi...

World Press Freedom Day : How Safe Are The Journalists In India?

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   Today, we are celebrating World Press Freedom Day . Which was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993, following the recommendation of UNESCO’s General Conference. Since then, 3rd of May, the anniversary of the Declaration of Windhoek  is celebrated worldwide as World Press Freedom Day. The Freedom of expression is fundamental right as stated in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Globally , those of who have to work for press are facing difficulties, like working under extreme pressure of authorities and influences of corporate-driven media houses. People from the press have been incarcerated on the false cases, facing torture/abduction and in the many cases in India or elsewhere they have been killed for expressing the truth. In South Asia, Freedom of the press is under the attack, In the 2019 World Press Freedom Index , India is ranked 140th places out of 180 countries in the world rankings. Our neighboring country ...

realitycheck: Zaira Wasim's Allah : Bollywood and Muslim

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  National Award winner-winning actor Zaira Wasim announced her “disassociation” from the field of acting, stating she was not happy with the line of work as it interfered with her faith and religion, she captured down details on her Facebook page about the quitting the film industry. The 18-year-old actor said as she completed five years in the profession, she wanted to "confess that I am not truly happy with this identity i.e my line of work". "For a very long time now it has felt like I have struggled to become someone else. As I had just started to explore and make sense of the things to which I dedicated my time, efforts and emotions and tried to grab hold of a new lifestyle, it was only for me to realize that though I may fit here perfectly, I do not belong here." This is really difficult to make judgment about her decision; we don’t know what made her to take this tough decision, moreover, the reasons she has given also more disturbing for our society, pa...

How Would a Grand alliance win in Bihar change Indian Politics?

 After three phases of polling in Bihar, the Grand Alliance seems to have an edge over the NDA. The BJP has tried their best to accommodate Paswan and Nitish’s party for the Lok Sabha elections. At the same time, the Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) leads the grand alliance with parties like the Congress, Hindustani Awami League (Manji), Vikassheel Insan Party (Mukesh Sahni) and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (Upendra Kushwaha). Political pundits are claiming that the RJD has given more seats to the parties than they deserve and this might be the result of the last election. Nitish Kumar’s Party Janta Dal (United) banded with the RJD in 2015 to fight assembly elections and they also formed the government. Nitish Kumar has once again decided to form the government with his old partner – the BJP.  This time, Nitish has lost credibility even amongst the BJP. He doesn’t seem to be enjoying the same power he once enjoyed. It appears that he has lost the grip he once held over the gove...

Women March For Change

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   Women March being organized by Women's rights groups in Delhi on 4th April, Simultaneously March being organized in many cities in India, for Justice and dignity of women. Women leaders raised voice against lynching of minorities and dalits, There was around more than 100 events in the 20 states of India. This is the collective action by the various women's women organizations and individuals to give strong voice for the rights and dignity of the women. Women activist, Bhasha Singh emphasized that, we have have gained women rights after long fights, we will not lose anythings with anyone. In here address, she strongly condemn recent lynching of minority and dalit community. In Delhi marcher were meet at the Mandi house and walked towards Jantar Mantar, where a public meeting being held. In this meeting women activist/artist and student addressees the marchers Similar event being organized in Ahmedabad, Mumbai,  Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. ...