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Modi’s India points to perils of white nationalism in US, UK

By Pankaj Mishra The recent gubernatorial election in Virginia and the British government’s campaign against “woke” cultural institutions provide the latest evidence that White nationalism is...

‘No Land’s People’ — the story of ‘systemic’ disenfranchisement in India

By PARVIN SULTANA Abhishek Saha’s book, No Land’s People, starts on a personal note. His grandmother, Alata Rani, entered the state of Assam holding her...

Opinion | From Modi to Yogi: The Militant Monk Who Could Lead India to...

By Swati Chaturvedi Yogi Adityanath, the diminutive 49 year-old saffron-clad fire-breathing monk and chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (India’s most populous and thus, electorally, its...

Two Journalists in India Arrested as Media Crackdown Continues

By Emily Schmall and Hari Kumar NEW DELHI — Two journalists in India were arrested after they went to cover religiously motivated violence in a northeastern state, the latest in...

India’s Assam Eviction Drive Heightens Insecurities of State’s Muslim Population

By Anjana Pasricha MUMBAI — An eviction drive in India’s northeastern state of Assam of residents living on government-owned land has heightened insecurities among the state’s...

Opinion: Rahul Gandhi’s Anti-Hindutva Remark Is A Good Move

By Ashutosh Many political pundits believe that Rahul Gandhi is caught between the devil and the deep sea on the question of Hindutva. If he...

‘This Is Nothing but Revenge’: Family of Arrested J&K Tribal Activist

By ISHFAQ RESHI The family members of a tribal activist, who was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police for allegedly instigating people, have rejected the...

Being excluded from NRC affects every stage of life: Assam scholar Abdul Kalam Azad

By MEDHA GHOSH Abdul Kalam Azad is a human rights researcher, community worker, and writer based in Assam. He is working on his Ph.D. thesis...

Comedian Munawar Faruqui’s show in Goa cancelled after threats from Hindutva group

A show by comedian Munawar Faruqui, which was scheduled to take place in Goa’s capital of Panaji on Monday, has been cancelled after threats...

JNU Students’ Union, other orgs call out ABVP who instigate violence on campus

Members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-affiliated ABVP disrupted a programme commemorating India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary and attacked students...

Salman Khurshid’s home set on fire days after release of his book on Hindutva

The residence of senior Congress leader and former Union minister Salman Khurshid in Nainital was vandalised and set on fire by a group of...

‘Stop enabling genocide of Indian Muslims’: Protests in US against Facebook

Hundreds of people of different faiths, professions, and backgrounds gathered in eight major cities of the United States, Saturday and Sunday to protest Facebook allowing hate...

Maharashtra: Shops belonging to Muslims burnt during bandh called by BJP in Amravati, say...

Two shops belonging to Muslims were burnt during a shutdown observed by the Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra’s Amravati city on Saturday, The Indian Express reported. The BJP observed...

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