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Penguin Random House Drops ‘Hindutva’, Other Words From Varavara Rao’s Latest Book: Report

Penguin Random House India’s legal team has allegedly removed words like ‘Hindutva’, ‘Sangh Parivar’ and ‘saffronisation’ from Telugu poet Varavara Rao’s latest book Varavara Rao:...

UP: Muslim vendor tortured in Police station, 5 cops booked

A 22 year old Muslim youth was tortured in a police station in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh by station head, four constables and two...

Police stop 200 VHP, Bajrang Dal members from entering Srirangapatna mosque

By Arun Dev / Hindustan Times Over 200 members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal were stopped from entering the Jama Masjid...

Hyderabad: Muslims committed all major crimes in last 20 yrs, VHP claims

By Shreya Srikonda / Siasat Hyderabad: In another instance of Islamophobic speech, a member of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Hyderabad on Saturday said that crimes...

Pseudoscience, Sophistry, and Hindu Nationalism in India

Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism by Banu Subramaniam, University of Washington Press, Orient Blackswan, 2019; pp xv + 290, $95, `945 (hardcover). Arecent calendar published by...

Pseudoscience, Sophistry, and Hindu Nationalism in India

By Aravindhan Nagarajan / EPW Arecent calendar published by a department at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur presented ancient and religious knowledge as being...

Hindu rightwing mob attempts to forcefully enter a Mosque to perform Hindu prayer

Mob of Hindu extremists gathered to forcefully enter a mosque and perform puja (Hindu prayer). They claim that Mosque stands on the ruins of...

Way out of the communal trap

By Rajesh Ramachandran / Tribune India Communal murders have become shockingly commonplace in Kashmir. The targeted killings of Hindus and Sikhs, Dalits included, are merely...

Gyanvapi ‘jalabhishek’ & more mosques on Hindutva groups radar — Urdu press is worried

By ABANTIKA GHOSH and  HEENA FATIMA New Delhi: The Gyanvapi Masjid row continued to dominate the front pages of the Urdu press this past week, along...

Indisputable link Hindutva’s Italian connection

By Ramachandra Guha  / Telegraph India L ast month, a teacher of political science in Uttar Pradesh’s Sharda University posed this examination question to his...

Kanpur Violence: Police Register 3 FIRs Against 1,000 Unknown Persons; All 55 Named Accused...

By Asad Rizvi / The Wire Lucknow: The police on Saturday, June 4 registered three first information reports (FIRs) against more than 1,000 unknown persons, out...

Why Has VHP’s ‘Srirangapatna Chalo’ Call Been Permitted?

The Karnataka government, as a part of its 'preparations' ahead of today’s 'Srirangapatna Chalo' (move towards Srirangapatna) call given by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), has...

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