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India – Madhya Pradesh: Path Way to Hindu Rashtra

By Ram Puniyani Recently (December 2011) M.P. Government’s Gau-Vansh Vadh Pratishedh (Sanshodhan) Act (Bill for Protection of Cow Progeny) got the Presidential clearance. As per...

A ‘normal’ anomaly: Displacement due to communal violence in Gujarat

The fleeing of lakhs of Muslims from their homes in Gujarat during the 2002 violence and their subsequent relocation in “resettlement colonies” or in places of Muslim concentration has been termed migration by the state and displacement by human rights organizations. This article revisits the events of that year to examine the displacement/migration question

Using the cow

By Javed Anand If you are a resident of Madhya Pradesh,Muslim and poor,nowhere close to the class of nawabs who can pay for murg musallam...

From Babri Demolition to supporting Anna Hazare – Changing Strategies of RSS politics

By Ram Puniyani This December, Babri demolition act completed its 19 years. On the occasion many a Muslim groups demanded the reconstruction of the masjid....

The Hindu right is spreading its poison via its schools network

By G Vishnu Sangh owns one of the fastest growing education projects Rights activists cry foul, as they see these schools in pursuit of communal agenda   Large...

The Communal Character of Anna Hazare’s Movement

By Bhanwar Meghwanshi It has now been confirmed that the Anna Hazare-led so-called ‘second freedom struggle’—as some sections of the media have mistakenly chosen to...

The Norway massacre and the Indian connection

By Meera Nanda The Norway massacre and the Indian connection On 22 July, Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian, set off bombs in the heart of...

Ayodhya Verdict: Affirmation of Hindu Majoritarianism

By Ravi Kiran Jain The Ayodhya Judgment, based on the “Faith and belief of the Hindus”, has forsaken the established principles of law of evidence...

Madhya Pradesh: Shadows of Hindu Rashtra

By Ram Puniyani  Madhya Pradesh is being ruled by the BJP Government for the last several years. This is one state where BJP and its...

Muslim actress branded a western slut after posing naked for Playboy (Indian Express)

By Agencies The nude pictures of a Muslim actress in the German May 2011 issue of Playboy are stirring up outrage in the Muslim community. Sila Sahin,a...

Why a good number of Hindus in America have started flying the saffron flag...

By Meera Nanda Not as Old as You Think …nor very Hindu either. There is telling evidence to debunk this nationalistic myth No one denies that Hinduism’s...

Aseemananda’s Confession

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the confession made by Swami Aseemananda relating to the planning and execution of the bomb blasts...

Report of the symposium on ’Faith & Fact: Democracy After the Ayodhya Verdict’

By Muktadhara, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, New Delhi The September 30 2010 verdict in the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi case, that began as a dispute over a...

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