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From their crop to their huts, how much do the poor need to forgo to accommodate PM Modi’s rallies?

Pratik Sinha28th February 201728th February 2017

In the last two weeks, at least two instances of poor suffering to accommodate PM Modi’s expansive election rallies have come forth. For PM Modi’s 27th February rally in Mau,…

Wore, btch, rndi, postitute – Indian right wing’s response to Gurmehar Kaur

Pratik Sinha28th February 2017

This morning, over a series of tweets, Gurmehar Kaur announced that she’s withdrawing from the campaign against ABVP. She also urged the students to join the march against ABVP in…

Satinder Awana, ABVP’s Ex Delhi University Students’ Union President, caught threatening a female faculty on video

Pratik Sinha27th February 201728th February 2017

Satinder Awana, a former President of Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) from ABVP, has been caught on a video abusing a female law faculty. A sample of the goonda like…

Safeguard students or troll them? Minister of State for Home, Rijiju, makes the difficult choice of doing the latter.

Pratik Sinha27th February 2017

The stated objective of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) or Home Ministry is to deal with internal security of the country. A major part of that involves dealing with…

Gurmehar Kaur’s message of peace had 347 words. Sehwag, Randeep Hooda and Right-Wingers read only 9 of those.

Pratik Sinha27th February 20175th May 2017

On April 28th, 2016, a video of Gurmehar Kaur, the daughter of a Kargil martyr, went viral. In this video, she appealed the Governments of India and Pakistan to find…

Gurmehar Kaur, the daughter of a martyr, is getting rape threats from ‘nationalists’ for speaking against ABVP

Pratik Sinha26th February 20174th July 2017

From the casual commentator to seasoned journalists to Bollywood celebs, everyone has faced the wrath of the trolls loyal to PM Modi and BJP when one has dared to question…

Video: A journalism student’s bold take on Demonetisation

Pratik Sinha26th February 201726th February 2017

Kartavya Khanna, a journalism student of Jagran College of Management and Mass Communication, spoke about the issue of demonetisation in a college program. In his speech, he highlighted how the…

A teacher in English department at Ramjas College narrates the story of ABVP’s terror

Shafey Danish26th February 201726th February 2017

Many ABVP members have been saying on TV that they did not instigate the violence, or that it was from both sides. Neither of these claims are true. I was…

Braving Sangh threats, Kerala CM launches a scorching attack on RSS in Mangalore communal harmony meet

Alt News Desk26th February 201712th July 2018

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vjayan unleashed a scorching attack on the Sangh Parivar in Mangaluru on Saturday at an event to promote communal harmony. The event was held amid threats…

Video of ABVP member Diksha Verma assaulting AISA President Sucheta De goes viral, she’d earlier alleged molestation

Pratik Sinha26th February 201726th February 2017

One of the defining pictures of the fracas at Ramjas College, Delhi, where ABVP members assaulted students of AISA, SFI and other student unions was that of an ABVP activist…