A new Modi rose in Kashi
By Hilal Ahmed
Narendra Modi’s self-representation as a religious icon — a committed devotee of Indian tradition and nationalism — in overtly Hindu terms underlines...
Goa Polls: To Offset Anti-Incumbency, BJP Turns to Hindutva, Polarisation
By Himadri Ghosh
Panaji: The recent ‘temple’ remark by Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant has stoked controversy and even put several BJP leaders in an uncomfortable situation. Political...
Bulli Bai auction: The audacious bullying of Indian Muslims
By RUBEN BANERJEE
Some 100 Muslim women in India had a disastrous start to 2022 when they woke up on January 1 to find that...
Ire on religious minorities: 79% Christian and Muslim NGOs denied FCRA, RSS affiliates spared
More than 70% of the total of 2,257 religious-nature organisations in the list of over 12,000 NGOs whose FCRA certificates regarded as invalid belonged...
Running a dirty poll campaign: Vilifying Muslim politicians and demeaning Muslim terms
By ARSHI QURESHI
As the campaign for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections heats up, major politicians are boldly using “Muslim” terms to gain entry into the...
Christians join Muslims as targets of Hindutva groups in Karnataka
KARNATAKA — The BJP-ruled state of Karnataka has emerged as the new ‘Hindutva laboratory’ where Christians joined Muslims as the targets of the far-right groups,...
Supreme Court must look into Haridwar hate speech
By Rekha Sharma
In the holy land of Haridwar, some people robed in saffron professing to be holy men held a “Dharam Sansad” between December...
Right-Wing Hate Speech Runs Rampant in India’s Elections
By Vijay Prashad
A bizarre event took place in northern India between December 17 and December 19, 2021. It was a “religious parliament” (Dharma Sansad)...
Why The Hindu Extremists Behind #BulliBai Feel Threatened By These Indian Muslim Women
Bengaluru & New Delhi: The year Zeba Afrin joined law school to help people, India abrogated Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional status; the Supreme Court ruled that a temple...
Don’t Be Fooled, BJP’s Counter-Offensive Against Farmers Is Very Much Still on
By Pritam Singh
It might seem counter-intuitive to argue about the Bharatiya Janata Party’s counter-offensive against the farmers’ movement, when not only has the government...
2021 Islamophobia in review India
Overall, 2021 demonstrated that Islamophobia remains a constant and growing threat around the globe. Anti-Muslim racism in 2021 remained ever present as hate crimes...
J’khand lynching: Wife says he was killed in police presence; 13 booked for murder
A day after a man was lynched in a village in Jharkhand’s Simdega district, his wife on Wednesday alleged he was killed by the...
Prabodhanand delivers anti-Muslim hate speech
"Hindu Extremist leader Prabodhanand again delivered inflammatory speech and asked Hindus to repeat Myanmar genocide. He'd delivered hate speech in Haridvar too but he...
