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“Love jihad” laws: India is facing a battle of Constitutions

BY SAMEENA DALWAI The “love jihad” law enacted in Uttar Pradesh, and either duplicated or announced by other Bharatiya Janta Party-ruled states, represent the values...

Yogi Adityanath’s focus on 1921 Malabar uprising is ill-motivated

By BRP Bhaskar The British called the 1857 uprising in north India 'Sepoy Mutiny'. Decades later, the Hindu Mahasabha's VD Savarkar called it the 'First...

Don’t see any option but to die: UAPA accused in northeast Delhi riots on...

By Anand Mohan J  Frustrated over the fact that the court has not yet heard arguments on charge in a Northeast Delhi riots UAPA case,...

Why the Modi government lies

By SUCHITRA VIJAYAN From 10 to 12 September, academics from various US universities organised an online conference titled “Dismantling Global Hindutva.” It was co-sponsored by...

We were told to sit apart, beaten up: Dalit children of Amethi school

By Avaneesh Mishra Jyoti Rao is reluctant to speak. It’s only when her parents are around that the 10-year-old student of Banpurwa Government Primary School...

‘BJP Worships Godse, Not Gandhi’: Sabarmati Ashram Residents on Revamp Proposal

https://youtu.be/qt9fXVwRfeQ By HIMANSHI DAHIYASAHAL QURESHI Gujarat government's ambitious project to revamp Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram is no stranger to criticism. The Rs 1,200 crore outing has been at...

Kappan Not a ‘Responsible’ Journalist, Writes Only About Muslims: UP Police

The UP Special Task Force (STF) in the charge sheet filed against Kerala journalist and UAPA accused Siddique Kappan has stated that he did...

Why discriminate against OCIs when there’s CAA: Supreme Court

By Utkarsh Anand “India is known for its inclusiveness,” observed the Supreme Court on Thursday as it allowed overseas citizens of India (OCI) to be considered...

Parents jailed in UP, 2 year old left behind in Kerala

Muhsina, a mother of three, decided to take her seven-year-old son Athif and mother-in-law this time to meet her husband, Anshad Badruddin, languishing in...

‘We Always Exist On the Verge of Threat’: Do Dalit Lives Matter in America?

By MEERA KAUL ndia’s caste system is among the world’s oldest forms of social stratification. The system which divides people into rigid hierarchical groups based...

In Defense of Dharma: Forces of Hindutva Cannot be Defeated by Excluding Religion From...

By Ramya Vijaya & BIDISHA BISWAS Under its current Hindu nationalist government, India has seen a marked decline in the quality of democracy. This, in...

UP: Teenage Dalit Couple Tonsured, Paraded in UP’s Basti for ‘Affair’, 15 Arrested

By Abdul Alim Jafri Lucknow: In a shocking incident in Basti district of Uttar Pradesh, a teenage dalit boy and girl were shamed publicly by some...

Six Christians in India’s Karnataka State Falsely Accused of Crimes as Government Calls for...

In the last ten days, at least six Christians in India’s Karnataka state have been taken into police custody after being falsely accused of...

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