Right-Wing Activists Demand FIR against Hockey Coach Abid for Offering Namaz in Stadium
PILIBHIT – The Pilibhit police have failed to find any truth in the charges levelled against a hockey coach that he had offered ‘namaz’ in...
Modi should learn from Nehru how to remember the trauma of the Partition
By Partha S Ghosh
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at it again. He has mastered the art of manufacturing controversy.
His goal is a simple one....
Apply anti-atrocities Act on Dalit Muslims, Christians: UN anti-race panel tells GoI
By Rajiv Shah
In a controversial move, which runs contrary to the current Modi government policy, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial...
India must consider untouchability as a form of racism: Civil society tells UN panel
A Joint Civil Society* Contribution to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for the adoption of the List of Issues Prior...
‘Dilatory Tactic’: Umar Khalid Withdraws Bail Plea in Delhi Riots Case, Files New Appeal
New Delhi: Scholar and activist Umar Khalid, jailed after having been charged under sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act over what the Delhi Police claims...
100 Years Later, American Hindu Leaders Are Making the Same Mistakes
By Nikhil Mandalaparthy
“Anti-Hindu.” “Hinduphobic.” “Fake Hindu.” “Islamist proxy.” “Christian convert.”
These are just a few allegations that get thrown my way on a regular basis...
Reading Savarkar: Was the Hindutva icon actually Hinduphobic?
By Vinayak Chaturvedi
Accusations of Hinduphobia in those who do not see eye-to-eye with Hindutva have reached new heights in recent years. An obscure 19th-century...
Hindutva-Aligned US Politicians Denounce Anti-Hindutva Conference
Two state legislators in the US, both of whom have strong ties to American elements of India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) paramilitary and the...
Fanatics ‘not allowing’ Muslims to eke out a living by running petty, small businesses
By Sheshu Babu*
"Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A...
Christian man in hiding after Hindu radicals beat him unconscious
A 35-year-old Christian man in southern India has been in hiding for over a month since his radical Hindu neighbors threatened to kill him...
MBBS students in MP to now read about RSS founder, Jan Sangh founder among...
MBBS students in MP will now be taught about RSS and Jana Sangh founders in all medical colleges of Madhya Pradesh. According to the...
The government has failed to protect Dalit women from caste-based sexual violence, says NCWL
Voicing concerns about how India is failing to meet its legal and moral obligations to protect Dalit women and girls from sexual violence, the National...
Gauri Lankesh Murder: Four Years On, No Convictions Made in the Case
Four years after journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her house in south Bengaluru, the Karnataka police seems to have made...
