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Namaz isn’t an anti-Hindu act. Time for every Indian to defend Islam

By HILAL AHMED The aggressive Hindutva campaign to interrupt a peaceful assembly of Muslim worshippers performing Namaz, especially in Gurugram, upsets me deeply. It goes...

Dalit family assaulted in Kutch for entering temple

In yet another case of violence against Dalits, six members of a Dalit family were allegedly attacked and assaulted by a mob of around...

Gurugram: Hindutva groups disrupt namaz, 30 detained

With chants of “Jai Shri Ram” and “Bharat Mata ki Jai”, that many Hindutva groups have adopted as war cry, mobs once again set...

Indore: Muslim bangle seller’s bail case drags on

The Muslim bangle seller in Indore, Taslim Ali, has been in jail for over two months now. After being brutally beaten up by a mob publicly...

Why it is Disingenuous to Equate Anti-Minority Violence in Tripura and Bangladesh

It is exactly a week since the first reports of attacks on Muslim-owned establishments and places of worship came out of Tripura. What purportedly...

We Lost Much More Than a Cricket Match Last Sunday Night

By Indradeep Bhattacharyya Sometime around June, my wife and I went to check out an upcoming housing project in suburban Kolkata being developed by a...

Gurugram: 30 Held for Disrupting Namaz in 6th Straight Week of Such Protests

New Delhi: Thirty people were detained after they allegedly attempted to disrupt Muslims offering prayers in Gurugram by shouting slogans and holding up placards, in...

Delhi: Protesters against assaults on Muslims in Tripura detained

Student groups and activists protested outside the Tripura Bhawan in New Delhi against the ongoing anti-Muslim violence in the northeast state unleashed by Hindutva mobs. Students belong...

Report highlights worrying rise in hate crimes in north Karnataka

By Arun Dev With more than 100 communal incidents reported every year in the coastal Karnataka region, religious politics has always been a main issue in...

Saffron Terror and Hindutva Ideology

By Dr Seema Khan Samuel Huntington’s ideas may have seemed far-fetched to some in 1992 when he predicted future wars to be “not between countries,...

Tripura violence: With no Hindu-Muslim riots in decades, what led to the recent attacks...

By Samrat X News of mob attacks on mosques and properties in Tripura owned by the Northeastern state’s Muslim minority of less than 10 percent...

Report on Belagavi ‘honour killing’ says efforts on to shift blame from Hindutva organisations

A fact-finding report on the murder of Arbaz Aftab Mulla in Belagavi accused the Superintendent of Police (SP) Laxman Nimbargi of trying to shift...

Indian diplomats weigh in on academic spat

By Sam Sachdeva The Indian High Commission has weighed into the debate over the Hindutva movement in Aotearoa, accusing an academic of being “selective and...

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