News of a Bengali ‘Hindu’ family- a pregnant mother, a child, and the father, being lynched in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal is running through newspapers and social media. The authenticity and the real motives for murder are yet to be investigated, since there are plausible reasons to believe that it could be a…
Under the just lit fluorescent street lights and in the midst of a busy city bus stop at Mehdipatnam in Hyderabad, I was once slapped in my face by a person whose religious identity I did not know. After slapping me twice, the person warned me saying, “Hyderabad musalmaanon ka hein…Hyderabad mein muslamaanon hi rehna hain”…
I wrote what was on my mind on my profile and posted it over Facebook. In the beginning when I was not used to writing, a few questions concerned me as and when I posted anything. What was the truth of the matter? Why am I posting things at all? To take it little further,…
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