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The Call of Jihad

Shahina KK

A village in north Kerala earns notoriety after 11 of its youth flee to join the Islamic State. Shahina KK visits the families of the vanished in Padanna

Female Qazis: Raising the Bar

India’s pioneering female qazis are pushing for a gender-neutral interpretation of Muslim law

Cow Vigilantism: Politics of the Sacred and the Profane

What cow vigilantism has done to undefended lives and livelihoods. Ullekh NP visits Alwar in Rajasthan and Jaisinghpur in Haryana to find out. Photos: Ashish Sharma

ISI: The Evil Within

The ISI will continue to be a regional menace

Not Cow, But Bull Slaughter

It is the males of the species that are threatened

Battle for the Headscarf

One woman’s defiance of Turkey’s secularist dress code

Aurangzeb: Not an Anti-Hindu Despot

Redeeming Aurangzeb from colonial historians

Lipstick Under My Burkha: Waiting to Erupt

We need Lipstick Under My Burkha because the women in the film are us

Fault Lines and False Notes

Communal resentment still simmers in volatile western UP and no party is averse to harvesting it

Sampat Pal: The Lady in Pink

The tattered legacy of a revolution casts a shadow over the Gulabi Gang leader Sampat Pal’s struggle for political legitimacy

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