New Delhi: Bilkis Bano, the 82-year-old who earned the moniker “Dadi of Shaheen Bagh” during the long protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the national capital has now been named among the 100-most influential global personalities by Time magazine. “I am very happy that I was honoured in this manner. Although I did … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that it would lay down the law to balance a citizen’s right to protest with another’s right to free movement. Dealing with a petition filed against the Shaheen Bagh protests, the bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Aniruddha Bose and Krishna Murari said that the right to protest … Read more
A file photo of protesters at Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi. They tried to reach out to those in power through songs, slogans, placards, graffiti and even postcards to the Prime Minister (Express photo) By Amitabh Ranjan To borrow from Jawaharlal Nehru and paraphrase what he said more than seven decades back, a moment comes … Read more
The bhoomi pujan for the new Ram temple at Ayodhya has hogged the headlines and has been called a historical event by both Hindutva stalwarts and bitter Hindutva critics, with one group cheering and the other groaning about the transition of a secular India into a BJP-Hindutva dominated one. Forget this hype and razzmatazz. The … Read more