How a ‘love jihad’ case was manufactured in India’s Uttar Pradesh
By Oishika Neogi / Aljazeera
Muzaffarnagar, India – In June last year, authorities in the district of Muzaffarnagar in north India’s Uttar Pradesh state arrested a 22-year-old...
Karnataka: Hindutva group disrupts party in pub, abuses customers
Members of Bajrang Dal, the Hindutva right-wing organization entered a pub in Mangaluru on Monday night and chased away young men and women who...
Public worship is everywhere in India – so how are arrests being made for...
By Umang Poddar / Scroll
On Sunday, the Lucknow Police made its seventh arrest in an incident where eight people were offering namaz at Lulu Mall in...
Anti-Romeo squads, Operation Durga: How the BJP subverts women’s rights while policing the streets
By Poulami Roychowdhury / Scroll
In May 2014, in his first speech to the Indian Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanded that politicians work together...
Book Extract: RSS Working Hard to Wipe Out True Religions of India
By Devanoora Mahadeva / The Wire
In his book Chintana Ganga, Golwalkar seeks to bury the federal system of India as a Union of States. In...
In Zubair’s Case, Process Itself Had Become the Punishment: Supreme Court
THE Supreme Court has said that fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair was trapped in a vicious cycle of the criminal process.
The Supreme...
Indian Govt Stops Kashmiri Journalists From Travelling Overseas, Gives No Reason
Srinagar: Pulitzer Prize-winning Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo, invited to the international photography festival Arles Rencontres after winning a Serendipity Arles Grant 2020, was set to fly to...
Court Asks for Medical Report After Delhi Riots Accused Saifi Falls Sick in Jail
A Delhi court on Monday, 25 July, directed authorities in the Tihar Jail to provide a medical report of Khalid Saifi, who has been...
Ambassadors of Hindutva: How Saffron Has Seeped Into Our Diplomatic Space
By P. Raman / The Wire
New Delhi: There have been urgent whispers about the “saffronisation” of India’s foreign policy establishment ever since Narendra Modi became...
‘Will Resist Communalisation’: Anganwadi Workers Oppose Uttarakhand Minister’s Order to Perform ‘Jalabhishek’
The All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH) has demanded immediate withdrawal of the Uttarakahand Women Empowerment and Child Development minister’s order to all functionaries of the Integrated Child Development...
Mumbai: Shades Of Hindutva And The Colour Of Money
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar / Outlook India
What is the colour of Mumbai?
Blue for the sea and the skies above it? But the sea has long...
Countering Bigotry in the Indian Classroom
By Rohit Kumar / The Wire
For many years now I have conducted a workshop called ‘Finding You’ for high school students. It is aimed at...
Hate-monger Madhu Kishwar, four others booked for spreading misinformation
Hindu nationalist activist Madhu Kishwar and four others were booked in Uttar Pradesh by the Saharanpur Police on Sunday for disturbing peace by posting...
