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.
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.
NRC: More than a question of losing citizenship
By Shahid Jamal
The idea of citizenship can’t be imprisoned within the framework of blood and soil or religion; it needs a broader, more inclusive definition rooted in the liberal spirit of the Constitution.
Understanding linguistic conflicts and NRC in Assam through maps
By Selim Jahangir and Mehebub Sahana
Abdul Hussain, 45, from Muslim dominated Barpayak no. 1 in Nellie said, “My name is there in the list but my wife’s and children’s names are not. If I am an Indian, then how are my children foreigners?”
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 