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...
Malegaon Blast: NIA, BJP and Saffron Terror
Newsclick interviewed Human Rights Lawyer Nandita Haksar on the recent revelation by special public prosecutor Rohini Salian regarding the Malegaon blast case of 2008....
Majority Rule BJP
IN THE WORKINGS of any representative democracy with a written constitution that prescribes a system of checks and balances, there is always a tug...
The Great Divide
Partition displaced fifteen million people and killed more than a million.
Rewrite history to focus on Vedas: Hindutva activist
By Vikas Pathak, New Delhi
“History books from the Vedic times onwards should be rewritten. There should be focus on the Vedas and the Gita....
A Ban on Beef in India Is Not the Answer
The sacredness of cows in India might be a cliché, but it is deeply felt, rooted in the history of Hinduism. In Mumbai, one...
India’s new school textbooks favor Hindu nationalist themes, making minorities uneasy
By Mandakini Gahlot
NEW DELHI — Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s conservative Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in an unprecedented victory last summer, he...
The Dimapur Lynch Mob and Violence of Hurt Sentiments – PADS Statement
Statement by People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism
On 5th March a man was dragged out of the Central Prison in Dimapur in Nagaland...
‘As a Christian, suddenly I am a stranger in my own country’
Is it coincidence or a well-thought-out plan that the systematic targeting of a small and peaceful community should begin only after the BJP government of Narendra Modi came to power last May?, asks former super-cop Julio Ribeiro
Muzaffarnagar riots: A case of intelligence failure in more ways than one
While most of India was gearing up to cheer for their favourite team in the finals of Asia Cup, the state Assembly of Uttar...
Who killed Govind Pansare?
By Ram Puniyani
It’s been nearly a month since senior CPI leader Govind Pansare was shot. But police remain clueless about the murder. Following pressure...
India’s Maharashtra state bans beef
The Indian president has approved a bill which bans the slaughter of cows and the sale and consumption of beef in the western state...
Indian Democracy and Hindu Populism: The Modi Regime
By Arvind Rajagopal
Quid rides? Mutato nomine, de te fabula narratur. — HoraceHorace, Satires 1.1.69-70.
Introducing the Problem
Why do you laugh? Change the name, and the story is...
