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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...

University of California, Irvine, Steer Clear of the Hindutva Forces and Reject Their Donations...

By SAHMAT DATE: 12-02-2016 Press Statement We the undersigned are seriously concerned that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh which is a militant Right-wing Hindu-supremacist organization that has played...

How democracy in every sphere of life holds the key to Dalits’ redemption

By T K Arun A sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic Republic — this is what India is supposed to be. Republic, it certainly is, and sovereign,...

The Right-Wing Attack on India’s Universities

By Aatish Taseer Varanasi, India — I met Sandeep Pandey days after he was sacked from his position as a visiting professor at a prestigious technical...

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