Muslims “Will Wear Tilak” If I’m Re-elected: UP BJP Leader’s Hate Speech
By Alok Pandey
Lucknow: A BJP MLA in Uttar Pradesh today defended his hate speech, littered with anti-Muslim slur, that has gone viral in the...
Election in India’s Largest State Accelerates Anti-Muslim Hate Speech and Violence
By Angana P. Chatterji
Critical elections are proceeding in five states in India, including in its most populous state and political nerve center, Uttar Pradesh. The...
Rise of Hindutva ideology in India: An accident or a natural development?
By Abdullah al Ahsan
Rahul Gandhi, who leads the Congress party, in a recently held campaign gathering has claimed that “Hinduism and Hindutva” are “different...
American critics of Hindu nationalism risk sustained attacks
By Pieter Friedrich
UNITED STATES — When US Senator and then-presidential candidate Bernie Sanders criticized then President Donald Trump’s “failure of leadership on human rights” for having dismissed the issue...
How the Hindutva project is trying to reconfigure Indian Muslim identity – and why...
By Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui
Columnist Mukul Kesavan recently noted in The Telegraph that “a Muslim citizen’s default state is a state of culpability”. He is perfectly correct. Hate against...
Backstory: The Media Contributed to Hijab Face-off Spiraling Out of Control
By Pamela Philipose
Nagpur is seen as the seat of RSS power but one of the regions where it has had its deepest implantation is...
Kashmir journalists say local newspapers erasing their work
Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – For decades, local media has documented the conflict in Indian-administered Kashmir but recently, stories critical of the Indian government have seemingly...
Delhi riots | Two years since acid attack, case yet to see light of...
By Arnabjit Sur
Vakil Ahmed lost his eyesight in the incident during northeast Delhi riots; his ordeal continues as he is still fighting a case...
Lawyer for Muslim students in hijab row targeted, Ramakrishna Mission seer defends him
Advocate Devadatt Kamat, who has been representing the female Muslim students in both the Karnataka High Court and the Supreme Court in the ongoing...
Hindutva and the Steady Politicisation of Religion
By Madhav Godbole
V.D. Savarkar and M.A. Jinnah were both agnostics, but deftly used their religions to change the course of history. Jinnah’s two nation...
Hindu Nationalism Can Lead to Disintegration of India, Warns Arundhati Roy
NEW DELHI – Renowned author Arundhati Roy warned that Hindu Nationalism could lead to disintegration of India à la Yugoslavia and Russia. Nevertheless, she reposed...
Role of Sangh Parivar in Hijab protests
Hindu extremist leaders gave instructions to saffron shawl clad students. These students started protest against Hijabi Muslim women in the colleges of Karnataka.
SC asks UP govt to withdraw recovery notices against anti-CAA protesters
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to withdraw the recovery notices issued to the alleged anti-CAA protesters in December 2019...
