A young couple in UP's Shahjahanpur jumped from a restaurant to escape a caste-based vigilante attack. Now hospitalised, they face injury, stigma and fear.
The violence, as seen in a Bareilly birthday party, creates fear through moral policing. It redraws the boundaries of how one dresses, who one befriends, what one celebrates.
Muslim women already face issues at home due to patriarchy and misogyny — much like women in any conservative household. Moral policing only makes their lives harder.
Which humanitarian crisis should be prioritised, which words are ‘simple’ enough to avoid hurt feelings, or who is a ‘true Indian’, are not questions warranting court input.
For years, Amritpal Mehron fashioned himself as a self-styled enforcer of Sikh morals. Now, he stands accused in the murder of an influencer he called ‘vulgar’.
Thiruvananthapuram: Days after a 40-year-old woman died by suicide at Kayalod in Kerala’s Kannur district due to alleged harassment by Social Democratic Party of...
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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