Historian Rana Safvi has shared a post on her Facebook page and it is being liked and reposted widely. The post contains a conversation between an old lady and a young man and is based upon a hadith in the Prophetic literature. Safvi first learnt of this conversation through Canadian[Read More…]
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Why the #NotinMyName protest didn’t appeal to me
A 16-year-old Muslim is killed and people are out on the streets, a young girl is raped and we have a candle light protest. All I want to know is how much has it helped? After the Nirbhaya rape and murder case, we had people thronging the streets, but what[Read More…]
PM crumbles under #NotInMyName protest pressure, warns gau-rakshaks
Just after the #NotInMyName protests which drove thousands of civilians to the streets across states, in solidarity against the repeated crimes in the name of religion and cow-protection, Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally broke his silence on Thursday. As he publicly condemned the violence caused by gau-rakshaks or cow-vigilantes which[Read More…]
#NotInMyName, strangers coming together to uphold our Constitutional values
I made my way to Jantar Mantar on Wednesday evening filled with anger and frustration, equipped with two marker pens and a mobile phone. I reached the venue twenty minutes early and gravitated towards a familiar face, a friend in the crowd. In front of me was the stage with a big[Read More…]
#NotInMyName: Breaking the culture of silence against the lynching of the minority
The #NotInMyName protest is a demonstration scheduled in Delhi and several other cities across the country on June 28 (Wednesday) by citizens against incidents of the lynching of Muslims and Dalits. With the politics of mob-lynching claiming lives one after the other across our country, it is about time we[Read More…]