📢Ongoing Violence Alert| #Uttarakhand
We are deeply concerned about the ongoing situation in Uttarakhand, where news reports describe explicit calls to drive Muslims out of the state.
Activists on the ground are raising alarm over what they say is approaching ethnic cleansing*
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1/ 🎥 Kottukkaali (The Adamant Girl) by @PsVinothraj is a powerful Tamil film starring @AnnaBenOfficial and @sooriofficial. It delves into a young woman’s fight against caste norms, patriarchy, and superstition. 🧵
/ @AnnaBenOfficial as Meena delivers a gripping performance. Meena’s refusal to marry her cousin Pandi (@sooriofficial) and her love for a man outside her caste disrupt the patriarchal family order, setting the stage for an unforgettable narrative.
The title “Kottukkaali” means “an adamant girl”—a woman who acts according to her will, defying society’s rigid norms. The film unravels the violence and control inflicted on women when they resist systemic oppression.
Factual mistakes and absurdities in the demolition notice served on Javed Mohammad's house: Note prepared by the legal team.
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Last night at about 11 pm Allahabad police stuck a demolition notice on the house of Javed Mohammad. The back dated notice was served in the name of Javed Mohammadd, even though the house not only belongs to his wife -
but in fact the land it stands on is her ancestral property, with Javed Mohammad having no legal stake in it.
The notice also mentioned service of a prior notice on 10 May, a hearing on 24 May and orders passed on 25 May -
Mainstream media will soon pretend that it cannot figure out who the guilty party is in the ongoing violence in India.
It is the state.
What is happening to the Muslim community is a state lashing out on local minorities after receiving international condemnation.
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At least 15 countries, including Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Malaysia. the UAE, Jordan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Maldives, Libya, Turkiye and Indonesia have lodged official protests against India over the controversial remarks.
Even as the Indian state tried to win back international partners with continued assurances that its deep-set Islamophobia does not exist, local Muslims faced heavy policing in response to their protest call.
"I will break down this issue into three facets: the question of crisis, the question of language, and the question of politics," begins @anniezaidi.
"Politics is always in a state of crisis. But the crisis is exacerbated when politics begins to impinge on the language we use to describe it," says @anniezaidi.
Today, citizens across India are observing Republic Day.
A national holiday celebrating the anniversary of the Indian constitution coming into effect.
This is a good day to remember the people that the Indian state is holding in custody for upholding the same constitution.
Shoma Sen was arrested for alleged Maoist links, incitement of violence in January 2018 Bhima Koregaon, and her alleged connection to Elgaar Parishad. The arrest was made under the non-bailable section of UAPA.
Varavara Rao was arrested at 6 a.m. on 28 August 2018. The houses of his family were raided as well on the pretense of looking for Rao. Rao had already been arrested once the raid had begun.