UC Irvine rejects millions in gifts from Hindu group suspected of having ties to...
By TERI SFORZA / Orange County Register
UC Irvine has rejected millions of dollars in gifts from a nonprofit foundation that seeks to promote cross-cultural understanding...
Muzaffarnagar Riots: Main Accused In Gangrape Of 14-Year-Old Arrested
MUZAFFARNAGAR -- The main accused has been arrested in connection with the gangrape of a 14-year-old girl, who was rehabilitated along with her family...
University of California, Irvine, Steer Clear of the Hindutva Forces and Reject Their Donations...
By SAHMAT
DATE: 12-02-2016
Press Statement
We the undersigned are seriously concerned that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh which is a militant Right-wing Hindu-supremacist organization that has played...
How democracy in every sphere of life holds the key to Dalits’ redemption
By T K Arun
A sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic Republic — this is what India is supposed to be. Republic, it certainly is, and sovereign,...
The Right-Wing Attack on India’s Universities
By Aatish Taseer
Varanasi, India — I met Sandeep Pandey days after he was sacked from his position as a visiting professor at a prestigious technical...
Combatting Communalism in India
By Javed Anand
When India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept to power in last year’s elections, there was an abundance of media hype about the...
Undermining Constitution – Hindu Nationalist Agenda
By Ram Puniyani
With Modi Sarkar coming to power in the centre (May 2014), the picture of the country has changed drastically for the worse....
LYNCH AND BURN: HINDUTVA’S SLAUGHTER METHODS
By Megha Bahl and SharmilaPurkayastha Secretaries, PUDR
On 18th October 2015, Zahid Ahmed Bhat succumbed to his burn injuries in New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. Bhat,...
A Note on Dadri
By Mukul Dube
When I read of the killing, in Bisara village of Dadri, of a Muslim man by Hindus who suspected him of keeping...
Why India man was lynched over beef rumours
It was around 10.30pm on Monday night and the nine-member Akhlaq family had been preparing to go to bed after dinner.
Mohammad Akhlaq, a farm...
Sanathan Sanstha, a Less Known But Potent Member of the Hindutva Family
By Suhas Palshikar
The arrest of an activist having links with the Sanatan Samstha has somewhat deflected attention from the cause of the arrest —...
How Sanatan Sanstha turned Hindu spiritualism into terrorism
By SHIV VISVANATHAN
The sudden visibility of the Sanatan Sanstha in north Goa produces a whole range of stereotypes about Hindu spirituality and terrorism. Yet...
Institutional Communalism in India
By Pritam Singh
Introduction
This paper has three main objectives. The first objective is to draw attention to the anomalous and negative connotations of the word...
