Rakhi Bose

2 weeks ago | thequint.com | Auqib Javeed |Rakhi Bose

Talking to The Quint, locals expressed their concern over a section of media trying to spread communal narratives. Amid the cacophony of hate and polarisation on social media in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, a video of a Kashmiri man carrying an injured tourist on his back has gone viral. The man in the video is Sajad Ahmad Bhat, a shawl hawker from Pahalgam.

3 weeks ago | thequint.com | Rakhi Bose

"I would not mind my works to further the cause of fighting against oppression," Aamir Aziz told The Quint. “Even if an intellectual property is not licensed by its creator, it’s technically theirs if they can prove in a court of law that they were the one to first come up with the creation," Imran Ali, a lawyer who specialises in copyright cases, told The Quint in response to the recent row over Patna-born poet Aamir Aziz's 2020 protest poem 'Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega'.

3 weeks ago | thequint.com | Arka Bhaduri |Rakhi Bose

Over 250 people have been arrested so far in connection with the violence in Murshidabad which left three dead. Days after communal violence rocked several parts of West Bengal's Murshidabad district, the usually busy Dhuliyan market area bore a subdued look. On Tuesday, 14 April, the day of Nobo Borsho (Bengali New Year), only a few sweet shops opened their shutters in the morning.

1 month ago | thequint.com | Rakhi Bose

A viral video of men threatening Bengali fish sellers to move the market away from a temple has left CR Park astir. Dibyendu Das was a busy man on 9 April, a day after a video depicting a self-proclaimed group of ‘sanatani’ men threatening Bengali fish sellers, including Das, at the posh Market No. 1 of Chittaranjan Park in Delhi went viral.

1 month ago | thequint.com | Rakhi Bose

While Allahbadia, Samay Raina and others seem to have been forgiven, 'The Rebel Kid' continues to be abused online. “We were worried about vaginas. We were worried what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don’t think about them”. Much like Eve Ensler’s anonymous women from The Vagina Monologues, the anonymous trolls sending rape and death threats to internet personality Apoorva Mukhija on social media today ironically seem to be living the same conundrum. They worry.