Pro-Hindutva Members Assault Urdu Journalist During Protest In Mysuru
By The Cognate News Desk
A journalist of an Urdu news website Safdar Khaiser, was assaulted in full public view and in front of the...
Delhi: Muslim woman assaulted inside police station
37-year-old Hamida, a resident of Dayalpur in Northeast Delhi has alleged that she was brutally beaten up by Girish Jain, the Station House Officer (SHO) of...
ED Raids Ex-IAS Officer and Activist Harsh Mander’s Home and Office
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, Harsh Mander's home and office, on Thursday, 16 September.
This comes only hours after...
Crimes against Dalits, tribals increased in Covid pandemic year: NCRB
By Dhrubo Jyoti,
A scheduled caste (SC) person faced crime every 10 minutes in India in the past year, cumulating to a total of 50,291 cases...
Bengal worker’s plight at ‘transit camp’ in Assam
By Snehamoy Chakraborty, Umanand Jaiswal
Gangadhar Pramanik returned to his home in Bengal on Wednesday from a detention camp in Assam, carrying with him a...
Muzaffarnagar riots: ‘I saw my wife and child killed’, tearful villager tells PM
Muzaffarnagar: Stories of tragedy and suffering followed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi everywhere, as they visited Muzaffarnagar in Uttar...
How did Jai Shri Ram become a call for violence?
By Suchitra Vijayan
In this video, Suchitra Vijayan examines how the chant Jai Sri Ram became a call for violence in India. She explores the historical...
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,...
