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News 18 Kannada: Why Fighting Hate Speech in News is Crucial

On 23 June, News18 Kannada, a part of the media conglomerate Network 18, aired an apology for a section of their coverage, aired in April 2020,...

Our movement against CAA-NRC remains alive: Asif Iqbal Tanha on activism, faith, and Tihar

Asif Iqbal Tanha, a 25-year-old student activist, was arrested in May 2020, in connection to violence that broke out at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia university during...

Why Godi Media Backs Govt?

https://youtu.be/K_lQDc5tuhM In a democracy, the media is supposed to act as a watchdog and keep a check on those in power. However, in reality, media is...

UP ‘Conversion Scam’: What Does Yogi Govt Invoking NSA Tell Us?

By TARA NARULA The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the UP Police was formed in 2007, following terrorists incidents (bomb blasts) in Lucknow, Faizabad, and Varanasi...

Indian Police Force: Abusive and tyrannical?

By Adeeti Singh Allegedly thrashed by the cops at Virajpet Police Station, 50-year-old mentally challenged Roy D’ Souza succumbed to his injuries on June 12...

Hindu religious leader Yatindra Nath Giri’s remark on Constitution draws ire, #ArrestYatindraNathGiri trends on...

Hindu religious leader Yatindra Nath Giri's remarks on changing the Indian Constitution, doing away with the reservation for Dalits, ban on the Indian Medical...

Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation

How we did this More than 70 years after India became free from colonial rule, Indians generally feel their country has lived up to one...

Key findings about religion in India

BY JONATHAN EVANS AND NEHA SAHGAL India’s massive population is diverse as well as devout. Not only do most of the world’s Hindus, Jains and Sikhs live in...

‘Another blow to film fraternity’: Farhan Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap sign open letter against proposed...

By Priyanka Sharma  A group of actors and filmmakers, including Anurag Kashyap, Hansal Mehta, Vetri Maaran, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar and...

RSS to hold 5-day brainstorming session at Chitrakoot ahead of UP elections

By Vibha Sharma BJP’s ideological fountainhead, the RSS, will be holding its annual ‘Akhil Bhartiya Prant Pracharak Baithak’ in Chitrakoot (Madhya Pradesh) close to Uttar...

How Assam’s new chief minister is leveraging Assamese nationalism to push Hindutva

By Arunabh Saikia On June 2, Assam’s newly appointed chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took to Twitter to list out the names of 22 people...

Week on, family of slain Muslim man from Sultanpur, UP seek answers, allege ‘lynching’,...

By Musheera Ashraf  SAHARANPUR, UTTAR PRADESH – After a fifty-year-old Muslim man from Sultanpur area of Uttar Pradesh was found dead, the family of the slain...

In Delhi’s Uttam Nagar, A Campaign is On to Boycott Muslim Vendors, Unleash Violence

NEW DELHI – Hindutva activists including BJP leaders have been running a vicious campaign of economic boycott of Muslims through hate speeches, violent protest and...

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