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The article investigates the spatial aspect of Muslim minoritization in the city, namely their ghettoization, resulting from ongoing struggles over Muslim houses. It traces the gradual encroachment on the Muslim-majority neighbourhoods designated ‘Muslim zones’.

Providing more evidence that the sedition law – Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code – is prone to serious misuse, several people across the country have been booked under its tough provisions when all they were doing was celebrating the Pakistani cricket team’s victory over India in the recently concluded Champions Trophy final.

A society made habitual of violence, intimidations, suspicions where killings, torture, sexual abuse and pellet-gun related blindings are the norm is so brutalized that it will try to respond with its own idiom of brutality. Humanity today, sadly so, stands throttled in Kashmir and there is need to reflect and introspect, if this trend is to be reversed or even arrested.

So, there are parents who are filling their children’s minds with prejudice and hatred of the other — Muslims, Dalits, dark-skinned people, women, the people from the North East, the LGBT community, and, now, everyone who eats beef. Have you noticed how the list keeps growing? I would like to ask these parents — how are you different from the Islamic fundamentalists teaching children to kill?

joint letter from European Humanist Federation and International Humanist and Ethical Union seeking for protection of Sultana Kamal in Bangladesh