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Media Coverage: 2022

11/03/2022 Feminism in India – Reimagining Shelter Homes As Transformational Spaces: Aiming Beyond The Roof
03/02/2022 Outlook India – Life In A ‘Safe House’: Runaway Couples Stuck Between Love Jihad And Honour Killings
22/01/2022 Radio Mirchi RJ Jimmy – Mirchi Jimmy in Bengaluru interviews Dhanak co-founder, Asif Iqbal
21/01/2022 The Guardian – They cut him into pieces’: India’s ‘love jihad’ conspiracy theory turns lethal
18/01/2022 Indian Express – After SC directive safe houses for couples facing opp: Gujarat HC seeks report from Gujarat govt
05/01/2022 VICE – This Organisation Gives At-Risk Interfaith Couples a Safe Space
02/01/2022 Countercurrents – Press Release: Dhanak of Humanity Condemns Haridwar and Delhi hate speeches

Media Coverage: 2021

18/12/2021 American Kahani – Swami Agnivesh Memorial Award
27/09/2021 BARILOCHE News – The “Jihad of Love” Against Interfaith Couples in India
02/08/2021 LiveLaw – Delhi HC Disposes Of Protection Plea By LGBTQ Couple
30/07/2021 Outlook India – Plea in HC alleges registration of Muslim marriages
25/07/2021 Indian Express – When love of all kinds finds home
16/02/2021 BBC WorklifeIndia Video – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0973s9g
12/02/2021 BBC WorklifeIndia Podcast – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct1c1k
12/02/2021 The Newzish – http://लव जिहाद का भ्रम तोड़ने वाले हिंदू-मुस्लिम जोड़ों को मिली हत्या और जेल भेजने की धमकियां
29/01/2021 SheThePeople – Love Jihad: Why are people against interfaith marriages?
18/01/2021 Article14 – Uttar Pradesh’s Beacon Of Hope For India’s Interfaith Couples
01/01/2021 France 24 – All you need is not ‘love jihad’, but liberty, say India’s embattled interfaith couples

Media Coverage: 2020

23/12/2020 Ravish Kumar’s Prime Time – रवीश कुमार का प्राइम टाइम यूपी के लव जिहाद कानून से घबराए शमीम-सिमरन ने दिल्ली में तलाशा ठिकाना
20/12/2020 TOI – This woman fought a famous court battle to defend her marital choice
17/12/2020 The Hindu – Inter-faith couple from Uttar Pradesh gets ‘safe house’ in Delhi on court order
14/12/2020 The Globe and Mail – ‘Love jihad’ law that criminalizes religious conversions for marriage sparks anger and arrests in India
09/12/2020 Christian Monitor – Love and the law: Hindu-Muslim couple challenges India’s marriage rule
08/12/2020 South China Morning Post – Hindus and Muslims in interfaith marriages in India are in danger often, but some groups are fighting back
08/12/2020 BBC India – Love jihad: The Indian law threatening interfaith love
03/12/2020 CGTN (China) – When Hate Rules Love – India’s ‘Love Jihad’ Legislation
30/11/2020 The Times UK – Couples flee Modi’s phony war on ‘Love Jihad’
30/11/2020 TOI – Tied up in a knotty law, some interfaith couples opt to convert
27/11/2020 The Guardian – BBC’s A Suitable Boy rankles ‘love jihad’ conspiracy theorists in India
27/11/2020 Hindustan Times – In Defence of the Right of Women to Choose
26/11/2020 Outlook Magazine – Couples, Lawyers, Activists, Question The need for State to Regulate Marriages
24/11/2020 Barkha Dutt: Hindu Woman who married Muslim Man shares her story amid ‘Love Jihad’ Row
22/11/2020 NDTV – We The People: ‘Love Jihad’ or Love
21/11/2020 Muqabla: शादी के फैसलों पर सरकारी पहरा?
03/11/2020 DW Germany – Interfaith couples suffer amid a growing religious divide
02/11/2020 Barkha Dutt – Yogi Adityanath warning on ” Ram Naam Satya Hai | The ‘Love Jihad’ Law is coming soon
02/11/2020 The Quint – Love, Not Love Jihad: Interfaith Couple Fight To Make Law ‘Equal’
19/10/2020 Article 14 – How the Special Marriage Act is Killing Love
18/10/2020 Media Vigil – #Minorities_Matter में लव जिहाद के दुष्प्रचार पर बात

Media Coverage: 2019

12/07/2019 Views on the Sakshi Mishra Issue
16/06/2019 Does Religion Get In The Way?
01/06/2019 TOI: Interfaith marriage at shelter shows the way to other couples
01/05/2019 TOI: Remove Notice Period for Interfaith Marriage
14/04/2019 BBC News: The couples on the run for love in India
09/04/2019 BBC Sounds: How inter-faith and inter-caste marriages are leading to bitter divisions in India
14/02/2019 NDTV: Listen to couples talk about the difficulties they faced before and after marriage
14/02/2019 वैलेंटाइन डे : हमारा समाज आज भी अंतर्जातीय विवाह…
14/02/2019 Muslim girl left her home to marry a Hindu boy (BBC Hindi)

Media Coverage prior to 2019