Aslah Kayyalakkath
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Founding Editor @MaktoobMedia | History graduate | Native: Kozhikode, Kerala | Words in @AJEnglish @thecaravanindia | For leads: [email protected]
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Who funds @MaktoobMedia? It’s you. Maktoob is sustained almost entirely by its readers, not political parties, not corporates, not religious groups, not wealthy patrons. Every report we publish, every story we chase, and every voice we amplify is made possible by the people
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VIDEO | AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) on Monday said that linking patriotism to any single religion or identity is against constitutional principles and will increase social division. Participating in a discussion on the '150 years of national song Vande Mataram'
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As the verdict in the Kerala female actor assault case is set to be delivered in the next hour, sharing a piece written six years ago about the Women in Cinema Collective, a movement born out of the fight for justice for the survivor of a targeted and planned attack. The piece
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As today, 6 December 2025, marks 33 years since the demolition of the historic Babri Masjid in Uttar Pradesh by a Hindu nationalist mob led by BJP and RSS leaders, watch Maktoob’s 2021 documentary Recalling Babri. https://t.co/IpXXX2nMhZ
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BREAKING Delhi University professor Hany Babu granted bail after 1,955 days in jail in Bhima Koregaon case The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to Delhi University professor and noted academic Dr. Hany Babu, who was arrested in 2020 in connection with the Bhima
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Breaking: India wants all smartphone makers to pre-install a state-owned cyber safety app with no option for users to delete it. Directive contained in a non-public directive it sent to companies and reviewed by Reuters. Industry was not consulted before the move, sources say
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Nasir Khuehami, national convenor of the Jammu & Kashmir Students Association (JKSA), speaks to Maktoob about the rising fear and harassment faced by Kashmiri students across India, especially after the Delhi blast.
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I was travelling in an e-rickshaw in Jamia Nagar two days ago when I noticed something unusual: a small radio set installed next to the driver’s seat. The driver, Muhammad Shoaib from Bihar’s Bhagalpur, told me he had set it up because he wanted to listen to the news. Then he
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Former Orissa High Court Chief Justice S. Muralidhar has been appointed Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, placing an Indian jurist at the helm of the body that recently found Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
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Various international organisations have signed a call for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defender Khurram Parvez from Kashmir as he completes four years in prison today, 22 November, 2025. https://t.co/0RX8fraUQw
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He spent more years in prison for a crime he never committed than the age of many reading it.
Nearly three decades after he was thrown into prison for a blast that killed 18 people, the Allahabad High Court has acquitted Mohammad Ilyas in the 1996 Modinagar–Ghaziabad bus bombing, ruling that the State had failed to prove even the basic charges against him.
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“That’s where I’ve suffered lifelong trauma from RSS” Read!
Sexual assault, harassment, exploitation, all from inside RSS–BJP machinery Three RSS/BJP cadres dead by suicide in Kerala within weeks; one woman attempted suicide “That’s where I’ve suffered lifelong trauma from RSS” 1/11
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Just an hour ago, I got a call from an unknown number. A man told me, “Your (@MaktoobMedia) work is an irritation. Even if something happens in the country, why are you highlighting it? India is a big country, things happen every second. Who are you to bother?” I barely managed
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When a man has to set himself on fire to meet his detained son, it’s not security, it’s the collapse of a democracy’s conscience.
The father who set himself ablaze in south Kashmir’s Qazigund on Sunday, after police allegedly denied his request to meet his detained son, has succumbed to his injuries at a Srinagar hospital, where he had been admitted with nearly 90% burns. https://t.co/JAS8CNNBE6
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Press Release on a tragic bus accident late last night involving Indian Umrah pilgrims, near Madinah, Saudi Arabia. @MEAIndia @IndianDiplomacy @IndianEmbRiyadh @diaspora_india @CPVIndia @SecretaryCPVOIA
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Thanks @hypocritebabo
@aslahtweets @MaktoobMedia Thank you for your courageous journalism aslah sir please continue the Great work 💯💪
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Dear friends, @MaktoobMedia is going through one of its toughest financial phases, even as our reporting grows more urgent and essential. We have been reporting with integrity in a time when many choose propaganda, reject facts, amplify hatred, and surrender to jingoistic
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The phrase "Jungle Raj" In the context of Bihar, was an off the cuff remark by the Patna High Court in the context of some municipal mess-up. It was then weaponised by political opponents. Those who today invoke it after 28 years are essentially trying to dismiss certain
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Jungle Raj In Bihar, Says Patna Hc
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