Poisoning Young Minds and Paving the Paths to Right Wing Expansion
By Vijay Prashad
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the famous professor from Columbia University, calls me from rural West Bengal. She is in Birbhum, where Professor Spivak...
Savarkar justified the idea of rape as a political tool
The controversial figure castigated Maratha ruler Shivaji for sending back the daughter-in-law of the Muslim governor of Kalyan, whom he defeated.
Viewpoint: Why Hindu groups are against California textbook change
What it means to be Hindu and Indian have long been the subject of argument in India.
These disagreements have been amplified since the crowning...
Tracking the brain-washed foot soldiers of Bajrang Dal in Karnataka
'We work for Bajrang Dal just as Hanuman works for Lord Ram' — young men in Mangaluru on the fight for one vision, one people, one nation
Out of Saffron Ashes: Revival of Hindutva in India
This story first appeared on baylor-ir.tdl.org
Hindutva in America
By Arunabha Bagchi
In a recent article, “The Hindu Consensus” (13 March 2016), I had analysed the reason behind the rise and rise in India...
The Religious War Against American Scholars of India
By Elizabeth Redden
The distrust and even disdain with which many practicing Hindus view the scholars who study their religion would likely surprise many outside the...
Indian police receive life sentences for 1991 Sikh killings
Forty-seven police officers have been sentenced to life in prison by a special court in India for killing 10 Sikh pilgrims in 1991 and...
The spectre Assam elections immigrants fear
ON THE AFTERNOON OF 22 FEBRUARY 2014, Gujarat’s then chief minister, Narendra Modi, strode up to a lectern at a political rally in Silchar, in...
Parivar’s wish: Education for Hinduisation
By C.P. Bhambri
A common thread which connects the campus disturbances at the Film and Television Institute of Pune, Central Hyderabad University and Jawaharlal Nehru...
The jingoistic frenzy being whipped up by the BJP can do the nation serious...
By T K Arun in Cursor
Finish off the deshdrohi (traitor)! This is the BJP’s new war cry. And the Opposition is reportedly being put on the...
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...
