Dalit student thrashed by teacher; family lodges FIR
Jaipur: A Dalit student studying in class 9 of a government higher secondary school situated under Jhunjhunu’s Buhana police station area was allegedly thrashed...
MP woman forced to undergo ‘purification’ for marrying Dalit
By Shruti Tomar
A 24-year-old woman was allegedly forced to take a dip in the Narmada river and cut her hair during a ‘purification’ ritual by...
Dalit oppression in Punjab: The caste cauldron
By Anilesh S Mahajan
On October 15, a horrific scene played out on national television, of a bleeding Lakhbir Singh, a 35-year-old Dalit Sikh farm...
Christian Families in Central India Attacked and Driven from Village
Earlier this month, eight Christian families from India’s Chhattisgarh state were driven out of their village after refusing to convert to Hinduism and participate...
Lawyers’ Associations threaten ‘anyone providing legal assistance’ to Kashmiri students booked for sedition
Several Agra lawyer’s associations have decided to withhold legal assistance to three Kashmiri students charged with sedition at an engineering college, reported Press Trust...
Muslims in India’s Tripura state fear another revenge attack
By AHMER KHAN & RUWA SHAH
Panisagar, North Tripura — Bapuji Mia, 56, a driver, was sitting outside his house in Chamtila Panisagar district of Tripura, an Indian...
Indian Home Minister delivers communal speech
"Indian Home Minister Amit Shah delivered a communal speech in Uttarakhand, where he targeted Muslims for offering Friday prayers.The state of Uttarakhand is due...
Namaz isn’t an anti-Hindu act. Time for every Indian to defend Islam
By HILAL AHMED
The aggressive Hindutva campaign to interrupt a peaceful assembly of Muslim worshippers performing Namaz, especially in Gurugram, upsets me deeply. It goes...
Dalit family assaulted in Kutch for entering temple
In yet another case of violence against Dalits, six members of a Dalit family were allegedly attacked and assaulted by a mob of around...
Gurugram: Hindutva groups disrupt namaz, 30 detained
With chants of “Jai Shri Ram” and “Bharat Mata ki Jai”, that many Hindutva groups have adopted as war cry, mobs once again set...
Indore: Muslim bangle seller’s bail case drags on
The Muslim bangle seller in Indore, Taslim Ali, has been in jail for over two months now. After being brutally beaten up by a mob publicly...
Why it is Disingenuous to Equate Anti-Minority Violence in Tripura and Bangladesh
It is exactly a week since the first reports of attacks on Muslim-owned establishments and places of worship came out of Tripura. What purportedly...
We Lost Much More Than a Cricket Match Last Sunday Night
By Indradeep Bhattacharyya
Sometime around June, my wife and I went to check out an upcoming housing project in suburban Kolkata being developed by a...
