"This is not a liberal country nor do most Indians see liberalism as a virtue," @Rukmini wrote in her book about what data tells us about India. In this interview, she explains that age, education, urbanisation & income are not making things better. consortiumnews.com/2022/09/16/ind… "In popular culture, Indian society is not described as being hostile to all but its own immediate ethnic group, but that is what the data says & a lot of what we have been seeing anecdotally...laws to discourage inter-religious marriage...a lot of violence against Muslims..."

N, a 24-year-old from #Srinagar, spoke with
@MinhajMasoodi & @zakia_qurashi on the toll of rising heroin addiction & relapses on # Kashmir's youth, made worse by easy access to the drug. "It's easier to get heroin than cigarettes here." 1/n article-14.com/post/in-kashmi… Sharing a story of the devastation wrought by the drug, N recalled how his friend took a shot of heroin and then attended his father's funeral prayers. "A man's father has died, and the first thing he does is to take a dose of heroin." 2/n

"We have to get the woman back in our control. We have to save her & Hindu society."

We travelled across western UP to find VHP & Bajrang Dal leaders deploying saam, daam, dand, bhed (violence & blackmail) to break up interfaith couples. @theintercept theintercept.com/2021/07/03/lov… One chilling encounter was with Rajesh Awasthi, a VHP leader in Shahjahanpur, who described this violent “counseling” session with a Hindu woman: “When the girl said, ‘I will go with him,’ I gave her one punch and she started bleeding in the mouth." theintercept.com/2021/07/03/lov…

BREAKING: Jamia Millia Islamia student Safoora Zargar, arrested on 10 April in connection with the Delhi Riots, denied bail by Additional Sessions Court judge Dharmender Rana after four hour long hearing at Patiala Court in Delhi. @HuffPostIndia Safoora Zargar is 21 weeks pregnant. Her lawyers argued that she has polycystic ovary syndrome increasing her chances of a miscarriage. Judge Rana said, “Considering the material on record, it cannot be said that there is no prima facie case made out against the accused.”