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Newsclick & ICF Production
Who Are Miyah Poets and Why Are They Melancholic?
14 Sep 2019
Miyah poets Ashraful Hussain and Hussain Ahmed Madani and human rights activist Abdul Kalam Azad talk to NewsClick about how their poems are a matter of self-respect and identity for Assam's down-…
Newsclick Team
Attack Continues on Freedom of Speech Under BJP Regime
13 Jul 2019
In our new programme ‘Khoj Khabar’, senior journalist Bhasha Singh focuses mainly on three news stories. She talks about the FIR that has been filed against 10 persons for writing poetry.
ICF Team
Write Down ‘I am a Miyah’: An FIR Against Poetry?
12 Jul 2019
The community being referred to is the Bengali Muslim community; and the FIR comes in the run up to July 31st, when the final list of the updated National Register of Citizens will be published.
Taha Amin Mazumder
Language War in Assam, Miyah Muslims Allege Harassment
06 Jul 2019
A section of Muslims has called for Bengali-origin Muslims to register their language as Bengali in the upcoming Census 2021, overturning decades of being recorded Assamese.