India: Assassinating Dissent | Mukul Kesavan
Gauri Lankesh was the editor of a weekly tabloid published in Kannada, the main language of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She was...
How political patronage has kept the Sanatan Sanstha afloat in Goa
Starting out as just a fringe irritant, the shadowy organisation has been emboldened by the Goa government’s support
Alt-Right and Hindutva
By Arunabha Bagchi
On the occasion of our completing 70 years of Independence, a number of reputed English language newspapers published blogs of famous overseas...
Distortion of truth and the undermining of democracy under reign of Hindutva
By Ananya Vajpeyi
Between sophistry and silence
Can the ongoing devaluation of language and undermining of democracy be reversed?
The outgoing Vice President, M. Hamid Ansari, was...
A Thana Coloured Saffron
By Aakash Joshi
The least problematic aspect of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s statement implying that Muslim residents offering namaz in public are comparable...
What is RSS agenda in Education?
By Ram Puniyani
In its recommendation to NCERT, Shiksha Sanskriti Uthan Nyas, an RSS affiliate asks for removal of English, Urdu and Arabic words, the...
Life without basic facilities for Muslims displaced after Muzaffarnagar riots
Close to four years since the riots, Muslim families that were forced to leave their homes reside in settlement camps, with little access to...
Sadhvi Ritambhara Gets $1.80 Million For Hindu Museum From U.S. Donor Braham Aggarwal (...
Sadhvi Ritambhara Devi’s oratory skills are legendary and a packed room of prominent Hindu leaders in Houston were witness to the full force of...
Rewriting history: Akbar lost to Maharana Pratap; Mahatma, Nehru missing from texts
BJP-ruled states are facing increasing criticism for allegedly re-writing history of India to give it a right-wing perspective: portray Mughals ruler as mass murderers...
The Meaning of India’s ‘Beef Lynchings’
The rise in anti-Muslim violence under Modi suggests that the demons of the country’s past are very much alive.
One day in June, towards the...
How Muslims in India Responded to the Demolition of the Babri Masjid
By SEEMA MUSTAFA
Seema Mustafa is a senior journalist who has reported for papers such The Pioneer, the Indian Express, the Telegraph, and Asian Age,...
Beware of the rise of Hindu supremacists in America
By VIKRAM ZUTSHI
According to the Dharma Shastras, travelling abroad or crossing large bodies of water (Samudrolanghana) was sufficient cause for chaste Brahmins to be...
What is behind India’s epidemic of ‘mob lynching’?
Is the spate of 'mob lynchings' in India really just a spontaneous expression of mob anger?
