‘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...
In Bastar’s ‘Shaheen Bagh’, a Youth-Led Movement Quietly Perseveres
By Nandini Sundar
Silger (Chhattisgarh): Silger was like any other Koya village in Konta or Bijapur before it became the symbol of a non-violent struggle against...
Journalist Deep Srivastava files defamation complaint against Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh, police file FIR
The Sadar Bazar police in Shahjahanpur have registered an FIR against Newslaundry journalist Nidhi Suresh pursuant to a defamation complaint filed by journalist Deep Srivastava. The...
‘From majority to disempowered minority’: Politics of Delimitation in JK
By Muzamil Jaleel
It is never an event. It is always a process of several steps, at times far from one another, that slowly progress...
India Awakens to Fight for Its Soul
By Anjali Mody
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government have deployed propaganda very successfully since coming to power in...
CJP complains to Zee News against a debate programme about Population Control
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), has sent a complaint to Zee News for their unverified and misleading live debate programme called Kudrat ek...
