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Nov 22

THREAD: On Oct 11, Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, general secretary of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, wrote a letter to Asma Zehra, convenor of the women’s wing.

The women’s wing was to be suspended, the letter said, and its social media accounts should be deleted.

“The letter came as a shock,” Huda Rawal said. “I could not understand how and why this decision was taken. It was a unilateral action."

Rawal spent her spare time volunteering with the women’s wing of the board. scroll.in/article/103740…

Huda Rawal from Patna would reach out to Muslim women, especially those from disadvantaged families, and listen to the problems they faced in their personal and marital lives. She would take up cases with more senior members of the women’s wing and find ways to solve them.

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Nov 22

On November 14, #MadhyaPradesh HC held that the provision of the state’s anti-conversion law requiring prior notice to a district magistrate for religious conversion violated a person’s fundamental right to life and privacy and so was unconstitutional. ⬇️
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The court ordered the state government not to prosecute inter-faith couples who changed their religion upon marriage, even if they had done so without informing the district magistrate. ⬇️ scroll.in/article/103794…

In the past year, several High Courts have passed similar orders watering down select sections of the spate of newly enacted anti-conversion laws that seek to curb inter-faith marriages and also religious conversions. ⬇️ scroll.in/article/103794…

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Nov 21

THREAD: At a function earlier this month, #Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio said he would not be campaigning for the assembly elections, due to take place early next year. Instead, Rio said, he would prioritise the resolution of the “Naga political issue”. scroll.in/article/103758…

In Nagaland, this refers to the long-running demand for a sovereign Naga homeland, which spawned India’s oldest insurgency. scroll.in/article/1037585

The question of addressing these political demands inevitably crops up before assembly elections.

Before the 2018 polls,civil society, tribal bodies, backed by various armed groups, had agitated for an election boycott until peace talks yielded results. For a while, 11 parties signed a bond saying they would not field candidates – the plan fell apart when the BJP backtracked.

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Nov 10

🧵Mamta Kol has been eating chapati and salt at least two or three times a week ever since her husband lost his job two years ago following the #COVID19 lockdown in March 2020.

The 32-year-old mother of two weighs only 40 kg and often misses her menstrual period due to weakness.

The community health workers, who visit Kol’s village in Madhya Pradesh, have told her to include milk and fruits in her diet.

She finds it "tragically hilarious".

“There were days when my family had to sleep on an empty stomach.” scroll.in/article/103559…

Her husband Ramchandra Kol used to work at a factory that made plastic sacks in Ahmedabad.

In March 2020, when a nationwide lockdown was announced, Ramchandra’s factory stopped operations and he had to walk for seven days to get back home to his village. scroll.in/article/103559…

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Nov 10

THREAD: Last month, the #Assam Police detained and deported 10 foreign nationals.

On October 26, they held three Swedish nationals in Namrup, claiming they had violated their visa norms by addressing a religious meeting. scroll.in/article/103703…

The police heard “Christian missionaries were sending people to tea gardens and tribal areas” so they “alerted intelligence” and detained the Swedish visitors, Special Director General of Police (Law and Order) GP Singh said. scroll.in/article/103703…

The Europeans were detained and deported, with the police investigating whether they were conducting ‘mass conversions’ to Christianity. scroll.in/article/103703…

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Nov 9

THREAD: #CommonGround: When Tamil Indians were repatriated from Sri Lanka, many chose to settle in the hilly region of Gudalur in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris district. Many bought land, and took up work on estates. scroll.in/article/1036907

Decades ago, lakhs of Tamils, mostly Dalits, taken to Sri Lanka during British rule, to work in the quickly expanding tea estates on the island.

After Independence, the Sri Lankan government refused to grant citizenship to the “upcountry Tamils”, as they were called.

On the other hand, the Indian government argued that since the Tamils had lived in Sri Lanka for over 100 years, they belonged to the island country. scroll.in/article/1036907

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