Interview: Audrey Truschke on Sanskrit histories of the Mughal era and Hindutva trolls
The author of ‘The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts’ speaks about the most recent controversy, historical misreadings and more.
Audrey Truschke’s first...
2013 Muzaffarnagar Riots: Court Allows To Withdraw Case Against 12 BJP Leaders
Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh): A local court allowed to withdraw a case of inciting violence against 12 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including Uttar Pradesh...
2013 Muzaffarnagar Riots: Court Allows To Withdraw Case Against 12 BJP Leaders
At least 62 people were killed and more than 50,000 displaced in the communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar and its neighbouring districts in 2013.
Muzaffarnagar (Uttar...
Jhansi train incident with nuns shows Christian habits are the new skullcaps in India
By RACHEL JOHN
Clothes are deeply embedded in the regional and cultural framework of India. But today, they are being used for something far more...
Why Police Report Doesn’t Mention Kapil Mishra’s Speech in Delhi Riots Charge-sheet
BY TARIQUE ANWAR
espite multiple damning orders by Delhi courts, the city police has woven its entire theory around protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act...
Communal rhetoric? Hindutva preached by RSS-BJP is ‘monolithic’, not Hinduism
By Prem Verma*
I am a devout Hindu but not a believer of RSS Hindutva form of Hinduism which brings about hatred of other religions....
Communal rhetoric? Hindutva preached by RSS-BJP is ‘monolithic’, not Hinduism
By Prem Verma*
I am a devout Hindu but not a believer of RSS Hindutva form of Hinduism which brings about hatred of other religions....
Special Court Acquits Ex-BJP Leader Chinmayanand in Rape Case
In October 2020, the law student in question had turned hostile to her statement before a special MP-MLA court.
A special on Friday, 26 March...
Undercover: My Journey into the Darkness of Hindutva’ review: From Gujarat to Delhi, the...
By Revati Laul
A song American pop-jazz artist Billy Joel sang in 1986 makes so much sense now, when we cannot trust anything or anyone....
Delhi riots-accused allegedly assaults man, forces him to shout anti-Pakistan slogans
By Scroll Staff
The Delhi Police on Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly assaulting another man and forcing him to shout “Hindustan zindabad” and “Pakistan...
Man Thrashed, Forced to Chant Slogans in NE Delhi, Accused Held
By The Quint
In north east Delhi’s Khajuri Khas area, a man who can be seen thrashing another and forcing him to chant Pakistan Murdabad (down with...
Nuns from Kerala attacked by Bajrang Dal men in Jhansi: CPI(M) and Congress condemn
By Haritha John
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala have strongly condemned the attack on two nuns and two postulants...
The Modi Government Is a Regime of Low-Intensity Terror
By Ullekh N.P.
Not many academics have studied Hindu nationalism with the intensity of Stanford University anthropologist Thomas Blom Hansen. The 63-year-old’s new book, The Law...
