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Farah Naqvi
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What the Casual Hate in Our Classrooms Says About New India
Dec 25, 2022
Politics
What the Casual Hate in Our Classrooms Says About New India
If we are to regain a democratic future, we need to do everything in our power to stem that rot in the hearts of our children.
Dec 24, 2022
Politics
Father Stan, UAPA and the Performative Solidarity of Politicians
For politicians expressing anguish and outrage in this moment of injustice, the best tribute would be to do what Fr. Stan Swamy did his entire life.
Jul 10, 2021
Government
Father Stan, UAPA and the Performative Solidarity of Politicians
For politicians expressing anguish and outrage in this moment of injustice, the best tribute would be to do what Fr. Stan Swamy did his entire life.
Jul 10, 2021
Politics
A New Optics of Freedom: What Asif, Natasha and Devangana Mean to India
The state fears the young. They are everywhere. And they are fearless. If the stranglehold of near-impossible bail under UAPA is gradually loosened, the misuse of the law may become less and less tempting.
Jun 22, 2021
Opinion
What We Did When Our Government Collapsed: My Father Saeed Naqvi’s COVID Story
We have all experienced desperate times. You know what must be done. This moment was utterly different. Because we knew what had to be done. We just could not seem to do it.
May 29, 2021
Top Stories
What We Did When Our Government Collapsed: My Father Saeed Naqvi’s COVID Story
We have all experienced desperate times. You know what must be done. This moment was utterly different. Because we knew what had to be done. We just could not seem to do it.
May 29, 2021
Politics
'Is Anyone Here a Muslim, With a Victim Anecdote for My Column?'
Progressive journalism in times of Hindu rashtra-ism must learn to reflect on its own work.
Nov 30, 2020
Politics
Being True to this Daughter Means Confronting the Caste System in Her Rape and Murder
The state’s response to the Hathras case demonstrates once again, the resilience of caste as an abiding barrier to justice in India, one that trumps gender.
Oct 04, 2020
Politics
From COVID-19 To Delhi Riots - Choosing Scapegoats
The Bombay high court’s order quashing FIRs against members of the Tablighi Jamaat helps join the dots.
Aug 26, 2020
Politics
The Idiot Muslim Woman
What kind of an offensive anti-women narrative on the Delhi riots is the police trying to peddle?
Aug 18, 2020
Economy
My Name is Khan and I am Not a Coronavirus Carrier
If, at such a time, the medical establishment looks away from incidents of religious discrimination in hospitals, they will bear blame for a new epidemic - institutionalising apartheid.
Apr 21, 2020
The Citizenship Amendment Bill and NRC Will Together Destroy Our Country
Muslims will bear the brunt, of course, but India’s vast Hindu population will also suffer collateral damage. And all our rights as citizens will have been forever eroded.
Dec 12, 2019
Ayodhya Verdict: India’s Muslims Sought Dignity, Not Land
What hurts even more is the denial of what happened to India on November 9, and the lie that this was a “balanced judgment”.
Nov 14, 2019
Parables For Your Grandchildren
Parables from religious traditions survive because they give hope. What is happening in India today is not something that can lend itself to any parable.
Aug 31, 2019
Politics
Kashmir and the Saved Muslim Woman
‘Saving Muslim women’ is a fig leaf for domination, and the BJP has used this narrative to pass the triple talaq law and justify its actions in Kashmir.
Aug 14, 2019
Politics
We Voters Did Our Duty but the Election Commission Failed to Do the Same
A putrid smell hangs in the air as we witness the decaying of another of India’s democratic institutions.
May 14, 2019
For the BJP, 'Women's Rights' Are Really All About the Men
The Sangh’s vision for Indian women is a choice-less, voice-less horde of mothers and sisters in service of a patriarchal nation.
Apr 24, 2019
#MeToo Memories and Our Citadels of Power
This moment has no leaders. But it runs with a million racing heartbeats.
Oct 19, 2018
From the Hammer to the Chisel
Instead of the Emergency, what we have today is a slow, rodent-like gnawing away of the values, freedoms and foundations of constitutional democracy – one rat bite at a time.
Sep 03, 2018