Bloodstains on Pashmina: Kashmiri shawl sellers heckled, assaulted across states over faith, identity
For decades, winter announced itself at the doorsteps of people in the Indian plains with the arrival of Kashmiri shawl sellers — walking, cycling, or ferrying through the streets with...
Another Valentine’s Day, another free run for Right-wing outfits intimidating couples
“Jahan Dikhenge Babu-Shona, Tod Diya jayega Sharir ka kona kona” (Translation: Wherever we see Babu Shona, we will break every corner of their bodies) Every year on Valentine’s Day, Bajrang Dal...
On January 7, Ashish Chauhan, national secretary of RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), tweeted photographs of Soori Krishnan, an activist with CPI’s student wing Students’ Federation of India (SFI)….
On January 6, a day after the recent attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) by masked assailants armed with lathis and iron rods, several social media users posted two images…
A video of a man in a red jacket beating up another person in green clothing is widely circulating on social media to espouse the claim that students associated with…
BJP Delhi spokesperson Tajinder Bagga tweeted an 18-second clip of a protest at the Gateway of India, Mumbai on the intervening night of January 5-6. The protest was against the…
Since the past few days, an image of a Muslim woman with a bandage on her eye during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has been shared by…
On December 26, a Twitter user @RinaThakur_ shared a picture of a mother breastfeeding her child through a fence and claimed it depicts a detention centre in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi…
Several social media users have shared a 44-second video of police arresting civilians and claimed that the incident is from Assam after the implementation of the National Register of Citizens…
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan shared a video claiming that it shows police brutality against Muslim in Uttar Pradesh. The PM tweeted, “Indian police’s pogrom against Muslims in UP.” But later…
In the backdrop of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), a video is being widely shared on social media, especially WhatsApp, with…
On December 30, 2019, Twitter handle @GoSlowplz tweeted a video and wrote, “Plz save these ladies. What the hell have done modi. Rt” The video shows an image of women locked behind bars…