The Perils of Militant Hindutva – Up Close and Personal
By Indradeep Bhattacharyya
Somebody must have made a false accusation against Vivek – that is what his father, Kolkata-based bank manager Joy Sengupta thinks when...
TV program portrays BJP local leaders as “Muslim voices” in UP supporting BJP
While broadcasting a special report called “The M factor,” on 29 January, TV9 Bharatvarsh presented BJP local leaders, members, and associates as ordinary “Muslim voices”...
Anti-CAA Protest: Saghir Was Killed In Police Lathicharge; What Are His Family’s Allegations?
By Masihuzzama Ansari
VARANASI (Uttar Pradesh)—During the nationwide CAA protests, an eight-year-old boy named Saghir was killed in police lathi-charge on December 20, 2019, in...
‘Turning History Upside-Down’: Irfan Habib on Hindutva’s ‘Indigenous Aryan’ Theory
By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Kolkata: More than eight decades ago, in 1938, India saw the first comprehensive attempt at rewriting its history when Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, the...
Tamil Nadu: RSS man arrested for harassing nuns
A member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Ganesh Babu, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly harassing two Christian nuns in Illuppur Pudukkottai district of Tamil...
‘Watershed’: Dalits hail US university’s caste discrimination ban
By Raqib Hameed Naik
In early 2020, Prem Pariyar was almost at a breaking point over targeted harassment, discrimination and exclusion by the dominant caste group’s students at...
Hindutva Is Running Into Difficulties – by Rajmohan Gandhi
By Rajmohan Gandhi
Change may be far off but it can be smelt. No, I am not speaking of the upcoming elections in five states...
Hindutva goons barge into railway prayer hall, demand its closure
A Hindutva outfit in Karnataka has objected to an old prayer room at a railway station in Bangalore and has threatened consequences if permission...
Hindutva’s Circulation of Anti-Muslim Hate Aided by Digital Platforms, Finds Report
By Taniya Roy
New Delhi: Digital platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Reddit, and GitHub have hastened the proliferation of anti-Muslim hate that forms the architecture...
Ahead of key polls, India’s ruling party revives Hindu-Muslim dispute
By Alasdair Pal and Saurabh Sharma
MATHURA, India, Jan 31 (Reuters) - In the streets around a revered religious site in the Indian city of Mathura where a...
In Rajasthan, Dalit man assaulted, made to drink urine; 8 booked: Police
By Deep Mukherjee
Eight men from the Jat community allegedly abducted a 25-year-old Dalit man, assaulted him and forced him to drink their urine in...
Insults, Isolation, Broken Friendships: Dalit Students Open Up on Caste Discrimination in US
By Anahita Mukherji
“Saale cha*** tumhari kismat bahut tez hai, tum America pahunch gaye. Translated, this means, ‘you cha*** – a slur used by ‘upper’ caste members –...
Kapil Mishra had no role in Delhi riots: Prosecutor in Umar Khalid bail hearing
In the series of hearings regarding JNU scholar and activist Umar Khalid’s bail plea, the prosecution told the court on Monday that the “main...
