Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s donation of $2.5 million to RSS-linked Sewa International draws flak...
The move by Jack Dorsey, CEO of social media giant Twitter, to donate $2.5 million out of a total of $15 million (around Rs...
Some Oxygen For Siddique Kappan, Please?
If democracy is the name of our body politic, freedom is its oxygen. Its most precious resource, without which only the dirge remains to...
Dalit Workers Allege ‘Shocking Violations’ in Building Temple in New Jersey
By Peter Szekely
Hundreds of marginalised workers from India were recruited to build a massive Hindu temple in New Jersey where they were forced to...
Covid 2.0 and Modi 2.0 a disastrous combination: India has no time to lose
By Dipankar Bhattacharya
India is currently reeling under the twin blows of Covid 2.0 and Modi 2.0. Even as an unprecedented public health emergency rages...
Twitter Gives Millions to Sewa International, the Welfare Wing of India’s RSS Paramilitary
By Pieter Friedrich
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who on 10 May 2021 announced a $2.5 million donation to Sewa International, must have missed journalist Neha Dixit’s viral tweet,...
Delhi Violence Victim Threatened, Drugged and Left Unconscious by BJP supporters
By PRABHJIT SINGH
When 22-year-old Mushahid gained consciousness on 8 April, he found himself on a hospital bed. Mushahid is a resident Khajuri Khas, one...
US: Hindu Sect Is Accused of Using Dalits as Forced Labor to Build Temple
By Annie Correal
Federal law enforcement agents descended on a massive temple in New Jersey on Tuesday after workers accused a prominent Hindu sect of luring...
Family of Hany Babu says his life in prison is in danger
Hany Babu, an undertrial prisoner in the Bhima Koregaon case, who has been in custody since July 2020 without trial, has developed an acute...
UP Police Register FIR Against Ex IAS Officer Who Criticised Govt’s COVID-19 Management
By Asad Rizvi
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh police have registered an FIR against retired IAS officer Surya Pratap Singh for “spreading rumours” on social media after...
Hindu Nationalists In India Use COVID As Excuse To Attack Christians In The Middle...
BY ANTON CARILLO
Hindi nationalists in India reportedly use COVID as an excuse to attack Christians, even as the latter are praying inside their homes.
The International...
How Pages Like ‘Tatva India’ And ‘Yuvadope’ Are Manipulating Social Media
By Ashraf Nehal in Media, Politics
“Disinformation is worse than misinformation,
Disinformation is purposeful misinformation”.
The narrow mishandling of factual information is one dimension where democracy starts turning into...
Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, Kashmiri Separatist, Is Dead at 77
By Iqbal Kirmani
SRINAGAR, Kashmir — He was 22 when Indian authorities sent him to prison for the first time, for publicly denouncing the detention of...
Natasha Narwal: Punished Without Trial, Silenced in Grief (Delhi Pogrom)
By KARAN TRIPATHI
“I hope I get to see her before I die. After all, I’m getting old,” Mahavir Narwal yearned to meet his daughter...