UP polls: ‘The police killed our son, but no-one believes us’
By Vikas Pandey / BBC
Muhammad Raees was killed in India's Uttar Pradesh state in 2019 and two years on, his family is still waiting...
Fahad Shah’s Re-Arrest After Bail: Why It May Be an Abuse of Legal Process
By MEKHALA SARAN / The Quint
On the evening of 26 February, journalist Fahad Shah’s lawyer was expecting his release, after he was granted interim bail...
India retains ‘partially free’ status for second year in Freedom House’s 2022 report
India was called a “partially free” country for the second year in a row in the 2022 report by the United States non-governmental organisation,...
Delhi Police Oppose Bail for Sharjeel Citing His Remarks on North-East
NEW DELHI – While strongly opposing bail plea of Sharjeel Imam, a JNU student and social activist under detention in connection with 2020 northeast Delhi...
Maharashtra Police Books Radical Hindu Priest For Hate Speech
PUNE–The Ahmednagar Police in Maharashtra has lodged an FIR against controversial and far right radical Hindutva priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati Mahant of Gaziabad-based Dasna Devi...
The Security Playbook Used To Erode Democracy In Modi’s India & How The Tide...
By SHAMIK BAG / Article-14
PROLOGUE
‘The State is coming for us’
Kolkata: The knock on the door came at 6.30 am on 17 April 2018, as singers Jyoti...
100+ Instances of Hate Speech, Religious Polarisation, Hindutva Supremacy in Adityanath’s Poll Speeches
By Madeeha Fatima, Naomi Barton and Alishan Jafri / The Wire
New Delhi: Much has been made of Yogi Adityanath’s ‘communal agenda’ across his campaign in...
Modi opponents are called anti-national
By Arfa Khanum Sherwani / D+C DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION
In recent years, public discourse in India has become severely distorted. Government agencies tend to tolerate...
Karnataka: Tension in Aland over events at shared dargah, 167 arrested
As many as 167 people have been arrested and five First Information Reports (FIRs) registered in Aland town of Karnataka’s Kalaburagi district following communal...
Godhra, Where the Fall of India’s Democracy Began
By Prem Shankar Jha
This week is the 20th anniversary of the single most fateful event in the history of Independent India. Had carriage S-6...
Have religion-led policies backfired for Modi in India?
By SUVOJIT BAGCHI / TRT World
The domestic policies driven by religion and steered by India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seem to...
India: The Perfect Storm for Christian Persecution
By Mike Anderson / Persecution
Rajesh often wakes in the middle of the night gripped with fear. As does his wife. Fear for his beloved...
