Aakar Patel
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Bengal man detained in Rajasthan for two months for allegedly being Bangladeshi. Later, he was expelled to Bangaladesh. The family shown documents proving they have been living in India before 1941 and Sheikh has a birth certificate too. scroll.in/latest/1084902…
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Releasing today, new report ‘Making Citizens’ from @NLSIUOfficial & @QMUL is the most comprehensive legal & empirical study of #Assam’s #citizenship trials, revealing how thousands have been stripped of citizenship. Read excerpt:article-14.com/post/unmaking-…
दलित अधिकार समागम | पटना । 26 जुलाई सम्मेलन में अनुसूचित जाति/जनजाति विशेष संघटक योजना हेतु बिहार और केंद्रीय क़ानून बनाने की माँग की गई। सम्मेलन में @CPIMLBIHAR विधायक दल के नेता महबूब आलम, सत्यदेव राम @INCIndia विधायक दल के नेता शकील अहमद, RJD से उदय नारायण चौधरी,…
Rahim Ali spent 20 years trying to prove he was #Indian. Despite valid documents, a tribunal declared him a “foreigner”. The SC reversed the ruling—but Ali was dead by then. New @NLSIUOfficial & @QMUL report on Assam’s #citizenship trials article-14.com/post/unmaking-…
The remarkable EV Chitnis, one of the original foundational pillars of India's space programme, has just turned 100 yesterday. On Feb 10, 1962, Vikram Sarabhai and he had spent a few hours with Jawaharlal Nehru at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad. After that…
“I’ve not eaten for the past three days.” Kabir, 51 who came from Delhi, was picked up the police just because he speaks Bengali and is a muslim? Read: hindi.newslaundry.com/2025/07/25/gur… newslaundry.com/2025/07/25/gur…
“This is Like Living in Nazi Germany”: Mahua Moitra Condemns Detention of Bangla speaking Migrants in Gurugram
Police in different parts of India have been illegally detaining Bengali-speaking Muslim citizens and accusing them of being Bangladeshi. There have been disturbing reports of Indian citizens being pushed into Bangladesh at gunpoint. This government acts strong with the weak, and…
Residents claimed that nearly 2,000 people from Assam used to live here. However, when The Wire visited, the colony was almost entirely deserted. Only around 10-12 women were present, who were about to visit their male relatives… With @shrutik_sharma m.thewire.in/article/commun…
India’s Marxist historians were the first to question both colonial and nationalist assumptions about India’s history. Their scholarship is relevant even today, especially when we tend to confuse history writing with storytelling about kings and empires! jacobin.com/2025/07/kosamb…
The RBI is no longer independent/autonomous of GoI. Every stakeholder knows this India has a weak state, no strong rules, and compromised institutions RBI was a holdout but no more Best to admit subordination to govt diktat and go from there Hypocrisy serves no one’s interest
An RBI IAS governor to talk up central bank independence is ludicrous. Govs. Reddy Rao Rajan and Patel faced sulking ministers and ego bloated finance babus when they tried even autonomy. Das was appointed to subordinate RBI to GoI as his appointment as a PMO minion underscores
"We are Christians. How does it concern you?" says woman customer to Bajrang Dal man moral policing over delivery of raw chicken In UP's Ghaziabad, a blinkit delivery agent was accosted by a Bajrang Dal member on the road. The Bajrang Dal member identified Manoj Verma could be…
ANNOUNCING! A landmark new series from Chowringhee Press. Interviews with 100 translators around the world, working in and out of 60 different languages. In 5 volumes. We’ll be publishing the @harshaneeyam conversations with translators on their work and their craft this year…
In Gaza, even language is weaponized. Israeli soldiers leave behind graffiti that degrades, mocks, and haunts. Donya Abu Sitta reflects on how words, like bombs, can wound and occupy the ruins of homes and minds. 🔗palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657634
India was the first non-Arab country to recognise Palestine as a state back in the ‘80s.
We strongly condemn President Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state next to Tel Aviv in the wake of the October 7 massacre. Such a move rewards terror and risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became. A Palestinian state in these conditions would be a…
I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.
Breaking: An Israeli airstrike just killed Adam Yahya Abu Harbid, a cameraman for Al-Quds Al-Youm channel, along with all members of his family, after targeting their tent in Al-Yarmouk market in Gaza City.
Dr. Sulochana Gadgil, who has just passed away, was one of India's finest climate scientists. Her research over almost five decades greatly enhanced our understanding of the Indian monsoon. After her doctoral work at Harvard and post-doctoral work at MIT, she returned to the…
Feed the Children of Gaza, no child should be starving.