Monthly Archives: March 2015
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 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...
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...
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...