In cities across India, Muslims face systemic barriers when attempting to rent or buy residential space, not limited to private landlords; it permeates housing societies and real estate markets, often justified under the guise of maintaining social harmony. However, this so-called harmony is nothing more than a façade for prejudice.
The sixth great extinction, also known as the Holocene extinction, is an ongoing mass extinction event that is caused by human activity.
In a country like India, where 90 per cent of the labour force is engaged in the informal sector, performing outdoor jobs that involve physically demanding tasks in agriculture, construction, brick kilns, and other similar fields, workers face significant risks due to heat stress, given their frequent exposure to extreme heat at work.
Storytelling has long been a tactic in the toolbox of colonized people. For survivors of genocide, it validates their experience against those who deny that the horror ever happened.
Bhashani did not try to position himself beyond the parameters of a single religion. Bhashani's way of identifying only with Islam, it may be argued, limited his scope for incorporating syncretic elements derived from other faiths into his own world view.
Modi and the BJP will continue pushing his brand of authoritarian populism, undermining human rights and freedom of expression in the process.
In fact, looking at elections over two decades, we found that it was in municipalities that lost population that the radical right was able to score big gains.
Vilification and alienation of Indian Muslims have become an everyday job of un/paid far-right Hindutva nationalists, better say, chauvinists.
It is saddening that the government is not only apathetic towards irrational ideas on health on the contrary is subtly promoting them. Use of Cow urine, Astrology in the hospitals, the ‘Garbh Vigyan Sanskar’ by Arogya Bharti advising couples to recite Shlokas so as to have customized babies of their choice – the Uttam Santati are few examples.
The target of mob lynching is powerless. The members of a large mob incite even the worst form of violence.