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Combatting Communalism in India
By Javed Anand
When India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept to power in last year’s elections, there was an abundance of media hype about the...
Undermining Constitution – Hindu Nationalist Agenda
By Ram Puniyani
With Modi Sarkar coming to power in the centre (May 2014), the picture of the country has changed drastically for the worse....
LYNCH AND BURN: HINDUTVA’S SLAUGHTER METHODS
By Megha Bahl and SharmilaPurkayastha Secretaries, PUDR
On 18th October 2015, Zahid Ahmed Bhat succumbed to his burn injuries in New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. Bhat,...
A Note on Dadri
By Mukul Dube
When I read of the killing, in Bisara village of Dadri, of a Muslim man by Hindus who suspected him of keeping...
Why India man was lynched over beef rumours
It was around 10.30pm on Monday night and the nine-member Akhlaq family had been preparing to go to bed after dinner.
Mohammad Akhlaq, a farm...
Sanathan Sanstha, a Less Known But Potent Member of the Hindutva...
By Suhas Palshikar
The arrest of an activist having links with the Sanatan Samstha has somewhat deflected attention from the cause of the arrest —...
How Sanatan Sanstha turned Hindu spiritualism into terrorism
By SHIV VISVANATHAN
The sudden visibility of the Sanatan Sanstha in north Goa produces a whole range of stereotypes about Hindu spirituality and terrorism. Yet...
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...
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...
