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Love, Jihad and Political Lust
Chanting hymns and spraying holy Ganga water, a group of religious leaders and students from the rightwing conducted the purification ritual of a 26-year-old...
DOORDARSHAN AS RSS’S PUBLICITY AGENT: DANGEROUS HINDUTVA PORTENTS
By Praful Bidwai
Hindutva crossed another red line in Indian politics on October 3 when the state-owned Doordarshan news channel made a live broadcast, for...
Divide and win
WESTERN UTTAR PRADESH
Another laboratory
Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta in Aligarh and Hathras
FOR many political observers, western Uttar Pradesh has evolved as the biggest north Indian Hindutva...
1984 riots: Thirty years of impunity
By Manoj Mitta
My presentation at a Congressional briefing in the Capitol Hill complex organised by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on September 30,...
Stop new Babri movement against churches
By SA Aiyar
When the demolition of the Babri Masjid was threatened in 1991, Parliament en acted a law prohibiting the conversion of any place...
Bharat Bhushan: PM as pilgrim – or Indianness redefined
By Bharat Bhushan
To understand the political change in India only in terms of a Congress-led government being replaced by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
What the government of Gujarat is encouraging children to read is...
By Diksha Madhok
Once Dr Radhakrishnan went for a dinner. There was a Briton at the event who said, “We are very dear to God.” Radhakrishnan...
Dont force feed faith When the Fringe Become the Mainstream
Dont force feed faith
And
When the Fringe Become the Mainstream
Teesta Setalvad
As I write this we have been preparing to demonstrate against the shocking, though predictable conduct...
RSS Denigrating Freedom Struggle
Pearls of Wisdom of A RSS Leader
‘Elections equivalent to Independence Struggle’
Suresh Soni, RSS’s point person with the BJP, who facilitated ‘anointment’ of fellow Pracharak...
Communal Attacks on Muslims of Pune: A Fact Finding Report
Pune: This fact finding exercise was coordinated by National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO). Human right activists from different regions of India participated in...
Young techie Mohsin Shaikh lynched in Pune
By Mazin Khan
Originally from Sholapur, Mohsin was beaten to death by members of the extremist right-wing group, Hindu Rashtra Sena when he was returning...
A Nightmare Materialises in India: Hindutva – Capitalism Takes Power
By Praful Bidwai
The Lok Sabha election has produced what was easily the worst conceivable outcome by giving an outright majority to the Bharatiya Janata Party...
