The Story of Shaheen Bagh
By Omer Fayaz
While the government urged people to stay indoors to prevent the pandemic from spreading, the visuals of policemen supervising the erasure of anti-CAA graffiti did the rounds on social media.
Articulating the inarticulate, listening, and slowing down in times of the CAA and COVID-19
By Tonima Singh
It feels that the earth is protesting against the fascist and the capitalist ways of life to slow down, to not rush and step back, literally and metaphorically. And it is in these times of bearing witness to the social isolation and slowdown that it becomes clearer that others are experiencing a similar loss of past self and the emergence of a new one.
Partition and the fate of Muslims in the subcontinent
By Shah Nawaz Afaque
The BJP Chief Minster from UP, Yogi Adityanath made a similar statement claiming that Indian Muslims did no favour to India by staying back.
Silence of Indian Muslims in case of Sharjeel Imam reveals fear
By Majid Alam
While the minorities struggle for justice against what they call a communal citizenship law, they are scared to demand justice for Imam who stood with them. With the silence of the Muslims over Sharjeel Imam’s issue, the government is successful in sending a stern message to the minorities to fall in line.
Short shorts: Friendship under the cloud of the NRC
By Abu Siddik
The reporter was snoring. The teacher feared the worst – International Tribunal, the detention camp, the separation from children and wife and neighbours, loss of land and his ancestral sweet home! Shaken and terrified, he lay awake the whole night harbouring thousand alien fears.
What have Indian Muslims learnt from current protests?
By Nawaz Ahmed Khan
Therefore, we must choose our allies wisely. If solidarity from a community comes with conditions, we should be prepared to fight this long battle for our rights alone.
Would Indian Muslims receive international support if they are stripped of citizenship?
By Shuma Talukdar
Should Muslims in India finds themselves in a state similar to that of the Rohingyas in Myanmar in the future, it would be unrealistic of them to hope of any support from the international community, for we have before us the precedent of the Rohingya, to whom the world turned its back, while they were subjected to ethnic cleansing and genocidal violence.
Upholding the ‘Idea of India’ in Difficult Times
By Md. Israr Alam
I too assert that so long as these thousands ‘becauses’ are alive – I shall remain INDIAN. I do not give anyone the right to say, ‘You do not belong to India, so get out and go’! As Rahi said, “Why should go, sahib? I will not go.”
Why I Stand with Sharjeel Imam
By Abhay Kumar
Days before his arrest, the image of Sharjeel was constructed by the media as a ‘threat’ to the nation and Hindus. The fear was created to legitimize ensuing sedition charges on him. With Sharjeel’s issue, attempts are being made to communalize Delhi voters who are going to cast votes within a week.
How many Sharjeel(s) before we rise up to Hindu majoritarianism?
By Muzamil Yaqoob and Kaushiki Arha
We can and must argue otherwise, but to demonise and delegitimise Sharjeel Imam is to give a tacit approval to sedition charges on him in particular and state repression against dissenting voices at large.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 