Strong base and Bengali Hindutva: In Howrah, far-right Hindu Samhati comes to BJP’s rescue
Debtanu Bhattacharya, the president of the grassroots organisation, will contest on a BJP ticket in an area where the saffron party lacks a strong...
Hindutva’s Dead Hand in Destroying India’s Future: A Personal Lament
The resignation of top academics from Ashoka University is reflective of the current atmosphere where centres of education that encourage us to question beliefs...
India’s government puts nationalism before education in Kashmir
Like parents across the world in the time of covid-19, it was with a mixture of relief and worry that Afroza Zahoor sent her children...
Delhi Riots: A Year Later, No Breakthrough in Six Murder Cases
BY TARIQUE ANWAR
Even a year after the communal violence in north-east Delhi that killed at least 53 and injured around 600 people, no breakthrough seems...
Delhi riots: Complainant in mosque vandalism is held, court says absurd
by Anand Mohan J
A Delhi court has pulled up Delhi Police for arresting the complainant in a case of arson and vandalism at a mosque,...
Muslim Families in Delhi’s Riot-affected Shiv Vihar Sell Properties under Distress
In February 2020, communal riots broke out in northeast Delhi. Shiv Vihar was one of the sites of violence. According to reports, 53 people...
Why BJP’s Hindutva Runs Into the Tamil Wall
The composite Tamil identity and the historic processes that brought different groups together is anathema to the BJP’s brand of politics.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
Delhi Riots: Court Grants Bail To 4, Says No Evidence To Connect Them To...
New Delhi:
The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted bail to four men arrested for allegedly promoting enmity and disharmony by rioting, burning vehicles and instigating...
Countering right-wing Hindu nationalism in the diaspora
By Gauri Gandbhir
The stripping of Indian democracy by the far-right, Hindu-nationalist government of Narendra Modi is causing uproar in the Australian-Indian diaspora.
Countering the protests...
Mob attacks Christians in Chhattisgarh, 8 hospitalised
Eight Christians were injured and hospitalised in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, after being attacked by a mob of alleged Hindutva radicals. The Chrisyains had...
Rights activists ask Hemant govt to crack down on lynching
Janadhikar manch asks state demands quick probe and implementation of SC guidelines on deaths due to mob fury
Expressing concern over two almost back-to-back incidents of mob...
In Jharkhand, another Muslim lynched to death
By MAKTOOB STAFF
On Sunday morning, 27-year-old Mubarak Khan was lynched to death in the Angara region in Ranchi, Jharkhand capital.
Mubarak Khan, a driver by profession...
India’s interfaith couples on edge after new law
By Chinki Sinha
BBC Hindi
A controversial new anti-conversion law that criminalises interfaith love has put Hindu-Muslim couples on edge. Now, they face the wrath of...
