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In an article published recently in the Washington Post, author Lauren Rowello batted in favour of keeping the kink community in Pride month rallies. She also argued in favour of exposing children to various acts performed by kinks in the Pride rallies, apparently to help children learn about the “scope” and “vitality” of the queer life. Lauren Rowello is a writer and activist, who describes herself as a ‘former sex worker’ in her Twitter bio.

The Emergency of 1975 was an all-encompassing assault on the Constitution and democracy only superficially. In reality, it was a fatal invasion of the human spirit from which we will probably never recover. As horrid as it was, what happened after the Emergency is more significant: none of the central villains were punished for two main reasons.

Guess what has thankfully become conspicuous by its very public absence in the last twenty years? The ubiquitous Khadi Dhoti and Gandhi Topi on the oh-so-impressive physiques and oh-so-clean bodies of our politicians. Indeed, the decadal reduction in and eventual disappearance of this political attire is directly proportionate to the decline and destruction of the Congress Party, the mothership of this epic hypocrisy.

Remember the dreaded MISA, the so-called Maintenance of Internal Security Act imposed by Catherine the Great Indira Gandhi during the Emergency? Its one-line definition: dictatorial powers to arrest and imprison her political prisoners. As draconian as it was, it was also highly unoriginal, in fact, a cheap imitation of a far more malignant legislation in force for several years.

After the controversial conversion of two Sikh girls in the Kashmir valley led to a widespread protest, another case of Grooming Jihad has been reported from Jammu. Nikita Saini, in an exclusive interview to JK Media’s Ashish Kolhi, revealed that she was tricked into religious conversion by her husband. Narrating her incident, Saini, a resident of Jalandhar, informed that she was trapped by her husband Arfin Shah and his family into marrying him when they got to know of her previously failed marriage. Shah and his family hails from Udhampur, Jammu & Kashmir.

There have been interesting developments in Kashmir recently in the political sphere. It began with the controversial conversion of two Sikh girls to Islam, with one reconverting to Sikhism, but it has unquestioningly daunted the ‘Sikh-Muslim unity’ project. During the controversy, attempts were made by both sides to redirect the mutual anger they harbored against one another towards ‘Sanghis’ but the reconversion of one Sikh girl and her subsequent marriage to a Sikh man has made the unity project tad bit more difficult. While in the long run, it is indeed likely that both groups…

Pinky Baj, resident of Jaygram in Minakhan (North 24 Parganas district bordering Kolkata) had committed the ‘heinous crime’ of joining the BJP Mahila Morcha a few years ago.

Ghaziabad's daughter has geared up to prevent cybercrime. If someone now does things like online fraud, or harassing girls, then be careful because Kamakshi Sharma can find you and send you behind the bars.

In a letter to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta submitted details of the post-poll violence in Tarakeshwar in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. The letter was addressed to Rajiv Jain of NHRC.