Sabika Abbas

Aug 27, 2024 | ruralindiaonline.org | Ritu Sharma |Bhiklya Ladkya Dhinda |Sabika Abbas |Gokul G. K

14. Doing it the ‘write’ wayJharkhand's Parahiya, Mal Paharia and Sabar Adivasi communities are drawing on their oral traditions to create grammar books and primers to preserve their endangered mother tongues. A story from PARI's Endangered Languages Project on International Day of the World's Indigenous PeoplesAugust 9, 2024 |Devesh14. The Kolami-speakers of YavatmalA community of Kolam Adivasi cotton farmers in this district of Maharashtra speak Kolami, a language that is at risk of dying out.

Jun 8, 2024 | nationalheraldindia.com | Sabika Abbas

This mandate is a victory, but a lot remains to be done, writes Sabika AbbasTo be honest, despite a few reports from my political journalist friends who have been on the road since the elections began, and despite what my father kept saying, I totally believed that hate has triumphed.

Jan 9, 2024 | hindustantimes.com | Sabika Abbas

This is one of the several often unreported incidents of caste-based discrimination that prisoners face in jails across India. A specific study we conducted at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) on the condition of prisons in Punjab, brought to light the above incident.

Sep 10, 2023 | nationalheraldindia.com | Sabika Abbas

Your solidarity must stretch beyond commiserating messages and tweets; it needs your active participation, writes Sabika AbbasI am tired of those messages in my inbox that go ‘tsk-tsk’ and ‘I am so sorry’ whenever a video of brutality on Muslim bodies goes viral. While we witness fellow Muslims being attacked and beaten, their shrines destroyed, their homes bulldozed, our non-Muslim friends, colleagues and neighbours go on blithely with their daily lives.

Aug 12, 2023 | nationalheraldindia.com | Sabika Abbas

How does it feel to belong to a country that you love, but that does not love you back, asks Sabika AbbasI have been auctioned by the right-wing brigade way too many times. Bulli Bai, Sulli Deals, and countless Reddit subgroups. I am shocked at my ability to not be shocked. This grief and fear has become part of my everyday life. Since the violence against Muslims broke out in Nuh, I don’t think any of us have slept properly. I have had nightmares of my house being burnt down.