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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) speaks with Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh state Yogi Adityanath in March 2019
STREAMING corporation Netflix has become embroiled in India’s campaign against so-called “love jihad” after a scene in its hit serialisation of classic novel A Suitable Boy angered officials of the far-right ruling party.
A police case has been filed against two of the company’s top executive for India over a scene in which the story’s protagonist Lata, a Hindu, kisses a Muslim suitor.
It comes in the week that India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, passed a “Hitler-like” law restricting interfaith marriages and slapping jail terms of up to 10 years on anyone found guilty of using marriage to “convert a woman from one religion to another.”
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Spain has joined South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel while imposing weapons bans and port restrictions, moves partly driven by trade unions — proving just how effectively civil society can reshape government policy, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime