Kashmir Group Calls India’s Internet Ban ‘Digital Apartheid’
By The Associated Press
SRINAGAR, India — A prominent rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday described a communications blackout imposed by India following its...
Two arrested on charge of killing Dalit youth
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
The Vijayapura police have arrested two persons on charges of hacking to death a Dalit youth, allegedly because he tried to assert...
Uncle, Please Sit: Anti-Hindutva Politics Finds Shelter in a Generational Shift Overseas
By Ram Vishwanathan
New Haven, Connecticut: Arms raised, Jagdish Sewhani posed for a photo in front of an electronic billboard he had organised at Times...
A Lawyer’s Tweets Put India’s Supreme Court on Trial and Him at Risk of...
Karan Deep Singh and Hari Kumar
NEW DELHI — First, the firebrand lawyer wrote a one-sentence tweet opining about the Indian Supreme Court’s role in...
Modi’s new education policy: a next step in the saffronisation of India?
Does India matter? The answer of Western media seems to be: hardly. Measured against population (one in almost five humans lives in India), history,...
On the Anniversary of Kandhamal Violence, the Least We Can Do Is Remember
By Apoorvanand
A lot of us may not know where Kandhamal is – or even what it is. A simple Google search will reveal that it’s a...
Explained: The Narendra Dabholkar murder case, seven years on
By Chandan Haygunde , Sushant Kulkarni ,
Exactly seven years ago, rationalist Dr Narendra Achyut Dabholkar was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants in Pune. His murder and...
Sri Preston Kulkarni: Hindutva’s Hope in Houston
Pieter Friedrich
“In this campaign, Rameshji has become like my father,” Sri Preston Kulkarni said in May 2018 when he won the Democratic Party’s nomination for Texas’s...
Muslims, Backwards Biggest Casualty in UP Police Encounters
Waquar Hasan
NEW DELHI – The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has released a list of the alleged criminals eliminated by the UP police in...
For Facebook, weakening India’s democracy is just the cost of business
Rana Ayyub
On Aug. 14, the Wall Street Journal published a damning story about Facebook’s complicity in aiding and abetting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hate-filled nationalism...
TV scribe assaulted for covering caste discrimination in Tamil Nadu
Sahaya Novinstone Lobo
CHENNAI: A TV journalist was assaulted on Tuesday while covering the story about a Dalit panchayat president, who was stopped from hoisting...
A Facebook Executive Protected Hate Speech In India. Now She Wants Police Protection
Pranav Dixit and Ryan Mac
One of Facebook’s top executives in India wants police to investigate death threats and abuse she’s received on the social...
‘UPSC Jihad’ in civil service recruitment: Suresh Chavhanke
A concerned citizen filed an FIR against Sudarshan News Editor-in-Chief Suresh Chavhanke on Thursday, August 27, for inciting hatred between religious communities, doing acts...
