Spate of Hindu-Muslim communal violence has India on edge
By Murali Krishnan / RFI
Over the past fortnight, Hindu religious processions have descended into violence and chaos across India, giving rise to concerns the...
Odisha: No Arrests Yet of Bajrang Dal Members Who ‘Attacked’ Ambedkar Jayanti Rally
By Sumedha Pal / The Wire
New Delhi: On April 14, to mark the 131st Ambedkar Jayanti, Ambedkarites across the Bargarh region of Odisha participated in...
Everything Wrong (Legally) With Jignesh Mevani’s Arrest by Assam Police
By VAKASHA SACHDEV / The Quint
There are a lot of things that one can say are wrong with the arrest of Jignesh Mevani.
Critics of...
Are Hindutva Extremists, Government Agencies Colluding for Muslims’ Ethnic Cleansing with Bulldozers?
By Dr Ahmed Mohiuddin Siddiqui / Beyond Headlines
The illegal Shobha Yatra was taken out in Jahangirpuri without police permission and the rioting by the...
Photos: Burnt by Hindutva mob and bulldozed by BJP govt; Muslim lives in Khargone
By MEER FAISAL / Maktoob Media
In Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone, anti-Muslim violence that emanated from Ram Navami processions on 10 April left a trail of destruction...
Karnataka: Two Dalit youths tortured to death, 12 arrested
Two Dalit men Girish Mudalagiriappa (30) and Girish (32) were tortured to death in Karnataka’s Peddanahalli village in the Tumakuru district on Thursday night.
The...
CUET: Another nail in the coffin of AMU
Sajid Ali Bukhari and Sohaib Akhtar
“Dear people, Muslims of our country have not reached the point where they could compete with Bengalis in education”, Sir...
Splitting up Muslims? Assam Govt’s move to Identify “Indigenous Muslims” raises eyebrows
In a continuum to the ongoing NRC-CAA drive, Assam Government’s panel has recommended to identify the indigenous Muslims and not mix them with the...
CBSE drops topics on ‘democracy and diversity’, Mughal courts, poems by Faiz from syllabus
Chapters on the Non-Alignment Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, the chronicles of Mughal courts, and the...
Modi on Guru Tegh Bahadur & the Irony of Using the ‘Aurangzeb’ Card, Again
By NILANJAN MUKHOPADHYAY / The Quint
Late in the evening on 21 April, I tuned in, with much scepticism, to the live coverage of the...
How the ‘Bangladeshi’ dog whistle helps justify violence against Indian Bengali Muslims
By Adil Hossain / Scroll
“There is a Bangladeshi type of language…some kind of Bengali sounding language in which they were shouting slogans,” said Medha Lal of...
Khargone: Five Arrested For Ibraish Khan’s Murder
Five people have been arrested in connection with the murder Ibraish Khan, alias Saddam, a 30-year-old municipal employee from Khargone, Madhya Pradesh. On April 10,...
