Right-wing rulers of UP have hit a new low in their diatribes against the...
As my Abba Jaan rests in his grave in a qabaristan in Uttar Pradesh, I sit back and thank our creator that my father...
Indian court exhorts Modi to “protect Hindu rights” with further communalist “cow protection” legislation
By Kranti Kumara
A High Court judge in Allahabad in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh issued a reactionary ruling dripping with Hindu-supremacism earlier...
‘They Are Manufacturing Foreigners’: How India Disenfranchises Muslims
By Siddhartha Deb
One November morning in 2015, a 37-year-old woman named Sahera Khatun received a notice summoning her to a foreigners’ tribunal. Sahera was living...
Narendra Dabholkar Murder Case: Maharashtra Court Frames Charges Against 5 Accused
Pune: A special court in Pune on Wednesday, September 15, framed charges against five accused in the case of murder of rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar.
Dabholkar,...
‘We are suffocating here’: A year on, Hathras victim’s family lives in fear, shunned...
By Jignasa Sinha
The family has kept the ashes of the 19-year-old in a small urn in a corner of a room. Her sewing machine...
Counterview: Not all Hinduism is Hindutva, but Hindutva is in fact Hinduism
By Shana Sippy & Sailaja Krishnamurti
We are activist-scholars: precisely the kind who are criticised by the Hindu right. As members of the Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective,...
Dalit village pradhan beaten to death, 7 held
According to police, the accused beat up Ranjan and his brother-in-law over giving way to their vehicle.
Seven persons have been arrested for the murder...
Opinion: Why I feel the need to bring my Hinduism to the streets
By Sunita Viswanath
At a gathering a couple of years ago in the Maharashtra hill station of Panchgani organised by Professor Rajmohan Gandhi, I was...
Delhi riots: Prosecutor replaced after court questions sustainability of charge
Days after a court questioned Delhi Police over sustainability of a charge sheet filed in a 2020 riots case, the prosecutor who was handling...
RSS: Single Greatest Enemy to Religious Freedom Faced by Indians Today
By Pieter Friedrich
Last week, on 8 September, Atul Keshap, America’s acting ambassador to India, in literally his final act before returning home, met and staged...
Muslim woman beaten in Delhi Police’s custody
"Hamida, a Muslim woman from Delhi’s Dayalpur was illegally detained by police officers and beaten with a plastic hose, causing severe injuries. She was...
“Despicable”: Indian-American Groups on US Envoy Meeting “Fascist” RSS
By Pieter Friedrich
“What we saw in India with Atul Keshap, the acting ambassador of the United States — this, my country — meeting with...
Rajasthan: Class 11 Muslim student killed in ‘premeditated’ car attack by Hindutva group
Sabir Khan, a 16-year-old and a class 11 student in Rajasthan’s Alwar district was run over by Hindu cow vigilantes on Sunday morning.
Khan, a...
