Ground Report: A Custodial Death, a Protest and Raids that Drove Dalit Villagers Out...
By Umesh Kumar Ray
Sarta: The Bihar village of Sarta – which has a Dalit majority – was deserted on July 28. Most houses, built of...
Police Crackdown on Worship Services in India
08/01/2021 India (International Christian Concern) – In an ongoing crackdown on Church activities in Utter Pradesh, radical Hindu nationalists attacked three separate congregations with allegations of...
Ten Commandments And A Parable Of Four Brahmins
By Saeed Naqvi
Coping with Corona season, confined with books and great cinema we stumbled upon Polish film maker, Krzysztof Kieslowski’s masterpiece, Dekalog, a 10-part...
Amit Shah sharpens Hindutva agenda ahead of UP polls
By Sanjay Pandey
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday dropped strong hints that Hindutva would be at the centre of his party's agenda in...
Commissions of Untruth : The politics of India’s ad-hoc judicial inquiries
ON 14 SEPTEMBER 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was sexually assaulted in the millet fields of Bul Garhi, a village in the Hathras district...
Julio Ribeiro: Rakesh Asthana’s new job shows how Modi and Shah are out to...
By Julio Ribeiro
Narendra Modi and Amit Shah together wear the same, well-fitting hat. That is fortunate. If each had worn a different hat, there...
Father Of 5 Dies ‘Inside Army Camp’ In Gurez
Srinagar: The death of a middle-aged man in Gurez Valley of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district has led to claims and counter claims between army and...
Hindu Sena vendor sells fruit, veggies at 1/3 rates in Gurugram, says ‘mehengai jihad’...
BY SHUBHANGI MISRA
Gurugram: Since early July, a fruit-and-vegetable vendor offering rates as low as a third or half of market prices has been drawing many...
In authoritarian regimes, political institutions may look democratic even when they are not
By Zeynep Menteşoğlu Tardivo,
A third of the world’s population lives under authoritarian rule. It is important, therefore, that we have a full understanding of...
Dalits from Madurai village enter temple for first time under police protection
MADURAI: Around 50 dalits from a village in Thirumangalam in Madurai entered the local temple for the first time in their lives on Friday...
European MPs say Kashmir’s human rights situation ‘alarming’
Sixteen members of the European Parliament have sought “urgent action to address the alarming human rights situation” in Kashmir and urged that it is...
Rape of Woman in Meerut, FIR Names Rashtriya Hindu Yuva Vahini Leader and Son
New Delhi: A young woman has accused an office-holder of the Rashtriya Yuva Hindu Vahini of helping her son and another relative rape her at...
Kin of lynching victims wait for justice
By ZIYA US SALAM
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) supremo Mohan Bhagwat made headlines recently with his seemingly placatory noises towards Indian Muslims. Speaking in Ghaziabad...
