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UP: 8 Dead, Tensions High in Lakhimpur Kheri, FIR Against Minister’s Son; Priyanka, Akhilesh...

New Delhi: Four farmers were among eight persons killed and 12-15 severely injured in Tikunia village of Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district on Sunday, October...

India’s Christians living in fear as claims of ‘forced conversions’ swirl

By Hannah Ellis-Petersen It was a stifling July afternoon when the crowd moved into the small district of Lakholi, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh,...

Is India Headed for an Anti-Muslim Genocide?

BY DEBASISH ROY CHOWDHURY  Indian leaders love to talk up Mahatma Gandhi when they travel abroad. It plays well to the popular notion of India as...

Resisting India’s structural limits on suffrage

In India, as in other parts of the world, voter suppression has always targeted oppressed communities and minorities. Independent India’s constitution included universal adult...

Chruch attacked by RSS members

"Church attacked by RSS militants in Haridwar, Uttarakhand injuring five persons including two women during a Sunday prayer meeting. One person is in critical...

Hindutva-inspired Indians exporting extremism to UK

A small group of the Indian community recently held a demonstration in the United Kingdom to pour their venom against the Pakistani community, which...

US hate crimes: FBI ranked ‘anti-Hindu’ incidents in 2020 at the low end of...

By Raju Rajagopal On August 30, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual hate crime statistics for 2020. After claims by some Hindu groups about...

I never believed in Hindutva, more students will quit ABVP soon: Former DU ABVP...

By Parvathi Benu Political ideologies are often quite fluid, especially in the polity of India in 2021. While Kanhaiya Kumar moving to Congress from the...

Under fire from Hindu nationalist groups, U.S.-based scholars of South Asia worry about academic...

By Niha Masih NEW DELHI — After U.S.-based researchers announced an online conference to discuss the rise of Hindu nationalism, a right-wing political movement with...

‘Can’t a girl even go out to study?’ UP Dalit family cries after daughter,...

By BISMEE TASKIN Bulandshahr: She wanted her father to stop driving the autorickshaw after he suffered two heart attacks. She didn’t like it when her mother...

Why evictions in Assam under Himanta Sarma have left Bengali Muslims more fearful than...

Manikajan Bibi is scared of losing her home. It is one windowless room built with tin sheets held together by wooden beams. In nervous...

MP: Mob vandalises religious place on suspicion of conversion of faith; two hurt

A place of worship was damaged using explosives and its priest and a devotee were thrashed with sticks allegedly by two dozen masked people...

The rise of Hindutva and hate in Aotearoa’s Indian diaspora

By Laura Walters Deep divisions are brewing within Aotearoa’s Indian diaspora, highlighting parallels to the mindsets that preceded the March 15 Christchurch terror attack. Those...

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