Nikita Jain
Articles
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Jan 12, 2025 |
maktoobmedia.com | Nikita Jain
As political parties gear up for the Legislative Assembly election in Delhi, politics over Bangladeshi “illegal immigrants” has taken center stage this election season. Amid the crackdown by the Delhi Police on these “immigrants,” Bengali-speaking people who migrated to the national capital for work are caught in the chaos. Last month, when 48-year-old Sulub Jamal went to have tea at a nearby stall, he was randomly picked up by the Delhi Police along with an elderly man present there.
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Jan 9, 2025 |
maktoobmedia.com | Nikita Jain
Eight years after Balwinder Singh lost his mother, the pain and trauma of those days still linger. Singh’s 72-year-old mother, Gurdev Kaur, a landless Dalit laborer, was attacked by upper-caste Jat Sikh farmers over ownership of common panchayat land in Jhaloor village in Punjab’s Sangrur district. The incident occurred in October 2016.
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Jan 7, 2025 |
maktoobmedia.com | Nikita Jain
Delhi’s civil society has condemned the National Investigation Agency’s raids against many student and labour activists in various states of India. The NIA has conducted searches at nine locations in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum in connection with a naxalism case pertaining to the recovery of money and incriminating materials, according to an official statement.
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Dec 29, 2024 |
maktoobmedia.com | Nikita Jain
In a shocking incident, two Christian women from Odisha’s Balasore district were beaten and then tied to a tree by a Hindutva group a day after Christmas on allegations of conversion. The incident came to light after a video showing the two tribal women in their forties tied to a tree, with the face of one of them appearing disfigured, went viral. Two Christian tribal women in Odisha were tied and beaten for celebrating Christmas.
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Dec 27, 2024 |
maktoobmedia.com | Nikita Jain
Aarti Devi (name changed on request) sits in her half-constructed home in a small village in Hazaribagh District. Her neighbors have isolated her due to recent events concerning her faith. Devi, 40, said that she voluntarily converted to Christianity in 2019. “It was faith that brought me here. My sister introduced me to a local pastor when I was really unwell. No one forced me. But after accepting the faith, my life became better,” she told Maktoob.
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