Targeted violence Jan-Jun 2021: Two of 35 journos killed worldwide from BJP-ruled UP
By Our Representative
In the first six months of 2021, of the 35 journalists killed in 21 countries around the world due to targeted violence,...
Modi government’s auditors are questioning NGOs about their Muslim employees and beneficiaries
Hundreds of Indian non-governmental organisations are in the midst of unprecedented audits by the government, triggering fears that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government –...
7 Months of UP’s Anti-Conversion Law: 162 People Booked in 63 Cases
A total of 63 cases were registered by the UP police till June 2021, under the controversial Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020,...
How Gujarat Police Used Islamophobia To Build Terror Case With No Evidence Against 124...
By KAVITHA IYER
Mumbai, Surat, Aurangabad, Pusad: When 124 Muslim men were arrested in December 2001, in a post-midnight operation in the city of Surat in...
Man arrested for ‘derogatory posts’ against Dalit, Muslim communities
The FIR was filed against the twitter handle ''Chowkidaar Santosh Nihalani” after a 64-year-old Dalit rights activistm Chhotabhai Rathod of Ahmedabad submitted a written...
‘They beat up whomever they saw’: Dalit residents of UP village recall ‘police attack’
Three houses and a storage unit owned by the family of the Dalit head of Palia village in Azamgarh district lay ransacked on Wednesday....
Meat politics and related jurisprudence in India
The choice of what food we eat or do not eat, is both dictated by cultural choice and economics. Regimes, especially authoritarian ones impose...
Calls to murder Muslim men, abduct Muslim women made from yet another ‘Hindu Mahapanchayat’...
NEW DELHI – Calls to murder Muslim men and abduct women were made from yet another ‘Hindu Mahapanchayat’ in the north-Indian state of Haryana.
On July...
Muslim man denied bail for three months, case lodged at non-existing police station
New Delhi: 30-year-old car mechanic, Munawwar, was denied bail for three months as the court was misinformed by the police that he was a...
Hindutva’s threat to academic freedom
By Ananya Chakravarti, Purnima Dhavan, Manan Ahmed, Supriya Gandhi, Dheepa Sundaram, Audrey Truschke, Simran Jeet Singh
(RNS) — We write as a collective of scholars with a deep and sustained engagement...
‘We are ruled by fiends. They have put a curse upon this land’: Arundhati...
The excruciating, slow-motion, custodial murder of 84-year-old Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest who spent decades of his life in the service of India’s...
2022 Polls: Future of Uttar Pradesh’s Muslims Hangs in Balance
India has one of the youngest populations in the world. A few years ago, all everyone talked about was how India would zoom to...
USCIRF Condemns Death of Jesuit Priest Imprisoned in India
Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemned in the strongest terms the deliberate neglect and targeting by the government of India...
