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Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah arrested for social media posts

Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah was arrested on Friday by the Jammu and Kashmir Police for allegedly posting “anti-national content”. Shah is the editor-in-charge of The Kashmir...

RSS Leader Injured While Making Bomb At Home

BENGALURU—A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader of Kerala, Alakode Biju (40), was injured when a crude bomb that he was making at his house...

Islamophobia In Udupi: The Moral Courage Of A Hijabi Teenager

By Priya Ramani Harassing young women has always been a favourite pastime of the patriarchy. It’s an even more exciting sport when you add Islamophobia...

Man Arrested for Owaisi Assassination Attempt Flaunted BJP Membership, Photos With Top Leaders

By Alishan Jafri and Kaushik Raj New Delhi: One of the two Hindutva extremists arrested for opening fire on Asaduddin Owaisi, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen...

Karnataka: Another college bans entry of students wearing hijabs over ‘uniform norms’

NEW DELHI:   Political leaders, including Shashi Tharoor and Mehbooba Mufti, artists like Swara Bhashkar and others, have expressed deep anguish on the social media...

Can Fake Terror Charges Be an Election Issue in Majoritarian India?

By Neha Dixit Sarai Pohi (Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh): On a winter afternoon, young men with floppy hair and old men with long beards surround a petite...

Hindutva’s Unending Search for an Imaginary Past

By Subhash Gatade The Union Ministry of Culture recently declared a new museum would be built at Pusad, in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, in...

Hindu extremists target Muslim place of worship

Hindu extremists installed a loudspeaker on top of a temple to disrupt Azaan (the Muslim call to prayers).

The four VHP men who made Lavanya’s suicide a rallying point for the BJP...

By Sudipto Mondal  “Tamil Nadu is the birthplace of Hindutva,” believes Ashokji, spiritual mentor to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Ariyalur district, and the...

How uptick in anti-Christian violence threatens Indian democracy

By Sarita Santoshini  Somu Avaradhi has led mass at a local prayer house in India’s southern state of Karnataka every weekend for the past several years....

Indian ‘live auction’ exposes prejudice against Muslim women

By Quratulain Rehbar Quratulain Rehbar is a freelance journalist based in Kashmir. When the world was celebrating the beginning of the New Year, I found myself...

Assam man fighting citizenship battle dies by suicide

The 60-year-old dry fish seller Manik Das was fighting a legal battle to prove his citizenship before a Foreigner’s Tribunal (FT) in Assam since December...

1,807 Communal Riot Cases Registered in India During 2018-2020: Union Govt Tells RS

New Delhi: A total of 1,807 communal riot cases were registered in different parts of the country during 2018-2020 in which 8,565 people were arrested,...

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