-Scroll.in According to the residents of Oting village, joining the army was an ‘honourable job’. Now, they want the army to leave the area. On November 25, Hokup Konyak, a 38-year-old coal miner, married Monglong Konyak. The wedding was held in the hahshahapang, or village square, in Oting in Nagaland’s Mon district. Everyone in the village attended. Eleven days later, his funeral was held in the same village square. “He was buried just...
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Another interfaith couple receives protection by the Allahabad HC
-Sabrang.in The court noted that the couple was being harassed and directed the SP to look into their grievances and offer them protection if necessary “The Court has repeatedly held that where the two individuals having attained the age of majority, are living together, nobody is entitled to interfere in their peaceful life”, held Justice Saral Srivastava of the Allahabad High Court, coming to the aid of an interfaith couple. In this instance,...
More »In 21st century Punjab, women are still killed for a 'crime' called love -Divya Goyal
-The Indian Express Girls in Nanak’s land are still being killed, in the wombs and outside. Inside, so that they are not born to live. And outside, so that they do not live to love. The 24-year-old bride had chooda (bangles) on her wrists, marriage documents in her hands and two security guards by her side. Yet, her voice trembled with fear. In Tarn Taran, Punjab, where another couple who solemnised...
More »Rising incidents of hate crimes point to the growing power of the lumpen -Radha Kumar
-The Hindu The national bar against hate crime has been lowered, but resolute corrective action is possible Once again, the first weeks of the Narendra Modi administration have been marked by hate crimes — two Muslim men beaten by mobs in Jharkhand and Mumbai, demanding they shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’, one so mercilessly that he died. Another man, a tribal, lynched in Tripura on suspicion of being a cattle thief. Most recently,...
More »Dalit women are brewing their own social revolution -Ashwaq Masoodi
-Livemint.com After being on the sidelines of Dalit and feminist movements for long, Dalit women are now standing up for their rights New Delhi: In 2008, seven women, aged 19-24, walked into a police station in Haryana’s Indri village in Kurukshetra district. Dressed in salwar-kameez with dupattas draped around their necks, they looked tired but confident, angry and brimming with questions. They wanted to meet the SHO and ask why no FIR...
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