Over the years, several Muslim women, who were directed by the NYPD to take off their hijabs during mugshot pictures, have tried to address this severe grievance. 

Isn’t it normal for us to not follow certain rituals and beliefs because they don’t make sense? Then what is stopping us from giving up the regressive beliefs about period? 

Did my mother or my sister really deserve to bear the burden of guilt for an infection?

Whatever be the fact, whether God is an entity or not, but the dialogue that it incited has divided and united people in different ways.

Kolkata’s Bethune College decided to add ‘Humanity’ as a religion to do away with the exclusive and discriminatory nature of the system itself.

Sneha Parthibaraja, an advocate and resident of Tirupattur, Tamil Nadu, has become the first Indian to obtain an official “No Caste, No Religion” certificate. It took the 35-year old nine years to obtain the certificate. Tehsildar T S Sathiyamoorthy granted it to her on February 5, 2019. Talking to SheThePeople.tv, Parthibaraja said people have been fighting the caste system for thousands […]

For many Muslim women, a hijab is a way of expressing resistance, writes Caitlin Killian, Professor of Sociology, Drew University. Nazma Khan, who immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh at age 11, faced years of shaming over wearing a headscarf in New York. So, in 2013, she started World Hijab Day – a day […]

The Delhi High Court has criticised the Delhi police for forcefully separating an interfaith couple. The case involved a Muslim woman and a Hindu man, both of legal age, who got married of their own will. What happened? The bench of justice S Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel has demanded an explanation from Delhi Police over allegations that they […]

A Muslim teacher stood up against OFSTED’s (Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills) ban on Muslim women wearing hijab. OFSTED is a non-ministerial department of the UK government which reports to the Parliament. What happened? It all started when Amanda Spielman, the chief of OFSTED, passed some controversial comments on Muslim girls wearing hijab. […]

A Kerala minister has intervened to prevent a primitive ritual from taking place in a Thiruvananthapuram temple. The temple authorities had announced a ‘Kaliyoot’ festival, where people would donate blood to bathe Goddess Kali, TOI reported. Bhadrakali temple in Vithura had advertised plans in flyers to conduct a Mahakhora Kali Yagnam using devotees’ blood. The news went viral on social media […]