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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...
Indian Democracy and Hindu Populism: The Modi Regime
By Arvind Rajagopal
Quid rides? Mutato nomine, de te fabula narratur. — HoraceHorace, Satires 1.1.69-70.
Introducing the Problem
Why do you laugh? Change the name, and the story is...
Is RSS HQ becoming Narendra Modi’s 10 Janpath?
By Ajoy Bose
Are we witnessing an uncanny replay of the power struggle between former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his party boss Sonia Gandhi...
RSS-inspired charity under probe in UK over ‘extremist’ views ( The...
LONDON: The UK has launched a probe after a "disturbing" footage caught a teacher on camera making anti- Muslim and Christian remarks to students...
RSS-inspired charity, Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, under probe in UK over ‘extremist’...
The UK has launched a probe after a “disturbing” footage caught a teacher on camera making anti-Muslim and Christian remarks to students at a...
Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh (HSS): Hatred and extremist views in charities (...
An ITV documentary has revealed hatred and extremist views in registered charities.
A year-long investigation by the Exposure programme followed three separate organisations:
The Steadfast...
Promoting Prejudice, Poisoning Minds – Parivar’s intrusions into education
If there’s one thing that the 102nd Indian Science Congress, held in Mumbai, will be remembered for, it’s the outrageous claims made at it...
Conversion to Hindu Raj
By A.G. NOORANI
The ghar wapsi campaign, which follows from the purification theories propounded by Golwalkar and Savarkar, implies a clear rejection of Muslims and...
