Yogi Adityanath: The monk whose prayer is to sow hate
Yogi Adityanath, the “mahant” (head priest) of the Goraknath math, currently chief minister of India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, has a reputation of...
Muslim voices: Perceptions of policing in India
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and Quill Foundation jointly conducted a survey across India to study how the Muslim Community perceives policing, as well...
Indian Muslims feel discriminated against by police: Survey
Respondents said they did not trust the police to protect their physical safety or rights, and in fact, felt harassed, victimised and targeted by the police based on their distinct identity
Since Babri Demolition, the Right’s ‘Hindu Rashtra’ Project Has Only Gained Strength
By Tapan Basu, Pradip Datta, Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar and Sambuddha Sen
The following excerpts from Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags: A Critique of the Hindu...
India’s Dangerous New Curriculum
By Alex Traub
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire did much to create modern-day India. It consolidated the country into a...
INDIA’S DEMOCRACY UNDER HINDU FUNDAMENTALISTS: THE QUESTION OF MINORITY CONDITION
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Astounding depositions in the final days of the Sohrabuddin trial
Statements by the last two prosecution witnesses are a reminder that skeletons in the cupboard can make a lot of noise
Enterprise Hindutva and Social Media in Urban India
Abstract
This paper delineates ‘enterprise Hindutva’ as a mediatized form of Hindu nationalism shaped largely by the affordances of social media and the cultural practices...
Amit Shah among main conspirators in Sohrabuddin fake encounters, chief investigating officer tells CBI...
During his deposition before the special court CIO Sandeep Tamgade said he did not have any documented evidence to prove his claim in the charge sheet filed by him.
Amit Shah benefited from Sohrabuddin case: former CBI officer deposes
CBI officer deposes on fake encounter
Amitabh Thakur, former Superintendent of Police in the CBI, Gandhinagar, and chief investigating officer in the alleged fake encounter...
Apart from Ram, the Supreme Court is BJP’s best friend in 2019
By MANEESH CHHIBBER
As he readies the BJP for the 2019 general election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a new ally, his strongest one yet – the Supreme Court...
BJP’s major achievement in Rajasthan: Rewriting school textbooks to reflect RSS worldview
By Shreya Roy Chowdhury
Gurmeet arrives in Ajmer on a crowded train. His friend Razzak picks him up and takes him to the dargah of...
Hindu nationalists increasingly use anti-Semitic slurs to target me – and that isn’t surprising
Two years ago, I awoke to the following tweet, “I hope another Hitler comes back and finishes off your people”, accompanied by a picture from 1945 of the bodies of dead Jews piled outside a liberated concentration camp. Since then, I have been regularly attacked with anti-Semitic language and tropes on social media, especially on Twitter.
