Haridwar Dharam Sansad Threatens ‘War Far Scarier Than 1857’
By Ashutosh Bhardwaj
This piece was first published on The India Cable – a premium newsletter from The Wire & Galileo Ideas – and has been republished...
Narendra Modi’s Sly, Incendiary Silences
By James Manor
Narendra Modi is a talkative man. Day in and day out, he delivers a constant outpouring of announcements, uplifting promises and slashing...
Why Hindutva’s Latest Slam Campaign Against Shah Jahan Escapes Logic
By S.K. Arun Murthi
Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and a pro-Modi media have drawn a contrast between the popularised myth of Shah Jahan’s brutal act...
Narendra Modi and the Bloodthirsty Dharam Sansad Speakers Are Closer Than Most People Think
By Neel Madhav and Apoorvanand
Speaking in his regular dog whistle mode, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reinforced the hideous message of the Haridwar ‘Dharam Sansad’....
Denigrate, Demonize, Divide, Destroy
By Fr Cedric Prakash SJ
A very effective strategy of fascists and dictators from time immemorial is to denigrate, demonize, divide and destroy the other!
This...
How a Malayala Manorama journalist’s suspicions about Kappan figure in UP police chargesheet
By Akanksha Kumar
This is the ninth part of Newslaundry’s series on the case against journalist Siddique Kappan. You can read previous parts here.
Kappan and three others were...
Activists Warn Biden Against Picking up Sonal Shah with Links to RSS-led Groups
NEW YORK – Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, withdrew her nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) this...
Jesus statue smashed in spate of attacks on India’s Christian community
By Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
Festive celebrations were disrupted, Jesus statues were smashed and effigies of Santa Claus were burned in a spate of attacks on...
‘Unconditionally Withdraw Statement,’ Tejasvi Surya Tweets on ‘Bring Back Hindus’ Speech
New Delhi: Two days after clips showing him deliver a speech calling for Christians and Muslims to be “brought back into the Hindu fold” began...
BJP MLA forces Muslims to close down their shops
Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly member forces Muslim chicken shop owners to close down their businesses, threatens violence and jail over...
How a Hindutva group raised the bogey of conversion to disrupt Xmas event in...
By TANUSHREE PANDEY
New Delhi: It was just another Christmas Eve celebration, organised by a group of people in Gurugram’s Pataudi, for which they had rented...
2 held for assaulting Dalit leader over sand mining lease in Botad: Police
HOURS AFTER they allegedly assaulted a Dalit leader and threatened to kill him for daring to apply for a sand mining lease in Botad’s...
