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Lakhimpur Kheri shows Gandhi’s India no longer exists. Protests and dissent are unwelcome

By ABHISHEK KUMAR  At times when I have felt disillusioned by the state of our democracy and politics, I have put it to the “Mahatma...

Kappan’s Chargesheet and Threat to Reporters Covering Minority Issues

BY HANA VAHAB An independent journalist in India has been behind the bars for one year. His crime, as per the chargesheet filed is, reporting...

17-yr-old Dalit girl allegedly sexually assaulted in Kozhikode, four men held

Kozhikode rural police detained four men on Wednesday, October 20, in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 17-year-old Dalit girl. According to...

Karnataka: Dalit youth paraded with hands tied

MYSURU/ MANDYA: After footage of a Dalit youth being paraded with his hands tied with a rope at one end and the other end...

Savarkar: the original divider-in-chief of India

BY SHUBHAM SHARMA UNFORTUNATELY, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar has become the talk of the town. The intellectual turf of India seems to be divided between those...

India Is a Fascist State

By Rana Ayyub A FRIEND OF MINE, an ad filmmaker from Mumbai, called me last week. He was trying to work on a commercial, and...

Podcast: During BJP Rule in UP, Communalisation Not Just an Electoral Strategy but a...

By Sidharth Bhatia Yogi Adityanath’s rule in Uttar Pradesh has been marked by the systematic persecution of Muslims, not just on the ground, but also...

7 pastors arrested in India on false charges of forced conversions

By Anugrah Kumar Authorities in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh arrested seven pastors at a prayer meeting under the state’s “anti-conversion” law, which Christians...

North America has a Hindu nationalist problem, and scholars are on the frontlines of...

Though you aren’t likely to read about it on the front page of the New York Times or spot it in trending topics on Twitter, for...

Hindutva Trolls Force Fabindia to Withdraw ‘Jashn-e-Riwaaz’ Festive Collection Promo

New Delhi: The clothing brand Fabindia has removed a promotional capsule about its new festive line after backlash from right-wing groups. While Hindutva activists accused the...

Police Lathi Charge At Eid Milad-un-Nabi Procession In Madhya Pradesh

Dhar:  The Madhya Pradesh police used batons to disperse people for allegedly violating guidelines and deviating from the permitted route during a procession on the...

Why defence minister’s claim that Savarkar filed mercy petitions on Gandhi’s advice is indefensible

By G. N. Devy The word “eureka”, though wrongly assigned in legend to Archimedes, came from the older Greek term heurisko, a sudden outburst of...

Hate Watch: Hindutva Leader, Linked to BJP and Narsinghanand, Assaults Muslim Man in Train

New Delhi: Hindutva leader Madhu Sharma, known as Maa Madhura, was seen assaulting a Muslim man in a train and made him touch her feet...

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