When 25-year-old Sahmira Khatun woke up in the early hours of April 10 to prepare Sehri (Sehri is the last meal eaten early in the morning to begin fasting by Muslims) around 2 am, she saw that there was no Dahi (yogurt) at home. Even though Sahmira had asked her husband Mohd. Shahbaz Alam to […]

In a recent series of articles titled ‘Seemanchal ka Sach’ (Truth of Seemanchal), Dainik Jagran, a popular Hindi newspaper, targeted the Seemanchal region of Bihar. The articles, published on December 29th, 30th, and 31st, 2022, made alarming claims about the dominance of infiltrators and the alleged migration of minority Hindus from their villages in the […]

In the past two years, a series of custodial deaths and undertrial prisoners’ deaths in hospitals have brought attention to the dire situation in Araria district’s prisons. These incidents have highlighted a concerning trend, where the victims all belonged to economically weak, minority, or Mahadalit families. Among those who lost their lives were Mohd Mumtaz, […]