Right-wing outfits campaign in Karnataka against ‘love jihad’ (Live Mint)
By Sharan Poovanna
Bengaluru:
Right-wing organizations, including Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Bajrang Dal and Durga Vahini, the women’s wing of the VHP, organized an awareness programme for parents...
The implications of coloring the secular Indian Army
Politicisation of the Indian Military: Why is it the talk of the town?
India, by virtue of being a strong democratic institution, has taken pride...
Demolition of India’s Babri mosque – the ‘Hindutva project’ 25 years on
By Murali Krishnan (New Delhi)
On Tuesday, the Indian Supreme Court began its hearing in the Babri Masjid (Babri mosque) dispute. It comes seven years...
How the Babri mosque destruction shaped India
On 6 December 1992, in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya, I saw a historic mosque, standing on ground believed to be the birthplace...
Glimpse Of Violence After Babri Masjid Demolition – ABVA Releases Digitized Version of Its...
Twenty five years after the Babri Masjid was demolished and violence unleashed on Muslim community in various parts of the country, AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi...
Bombay HC CJ Mohit Shah offered Rs. 1 billion to my brother: Judge Loya’s...
Anuradha Biyani, a medical doctor based in Dhule, Maharashtra, told journalist Niranjan Takle that Chief Justice Shah wanted her brother to give a favorable judgment to Amit Shah, the prime accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case that he was presiding upon as trial judge. Loya’s father Harkishan said his son had told him he had offers to deliver a favorable judgment in exchange for money and a house in Mumbai
Judge Loya Case: Shocking details surrounding death of judge presiding over Sohrabuddin trial
The judiciary as well as the Maharashtra government tried to pass off trial judge Loya's death as natural. But Niranjan Takle, a journalist, spent months reconstructing the circumstances surrounding his death and came to the disturbing conclusion that not only was it suspicious but most likely a cold-blooded murder
Spreading Hindutva through education: Still a priority for the BJP?
ABSTRACT
This article explores how the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pursued its ideology of Hindu nationalism through educational reforms. It pays most attention to...
When Veer Savarkar told me Muslims in India should be treated as ‘Negroes’ (DailyO)
By Tom Treanor
Muslims ''will have the position of negroes in your country'' is only one of the many things Hindu ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar...
Taj and bigotry
By Audrey Truschke
The Taj Mahal is easily the most recognisable icon of modern India. The monument is a cash cow for the state, drawing...
How the police protected the murderers of Pehlu Khan
A local court in Rajasthan acquitted six out of the nine accused in 2017 Pehlu Khan lynching case. Pehlu Khan and his two sons...
India becoming dangerous for intellectuals, social activists
By PUSHKAR RAJ
When journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead in front of her house early last month, quite a few writers and social activists in...
Mohammad Akhlaq: The lynching that changed India
Dozens have been killed since 2015 killing of Akhlaq. We tell the stories of some of the victims and their accused.
