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What is Hindutva?
By A.G.Noorani
‘HINDUTVA’ sums up the ideology that moved champions of Hindu nationalism for decades before Partition. In 1923, V.D. Savarkar coined the term in...
Hindutva terror nexus and Narendra Modi’s letter of appreciation
Sanathan Sanstha, being probed for bomb blasts and assassination of three great democratic-secular intellectuals of India, Narendra Dhabolkar, Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi, is an offshoot (or vice versa) of Hindu Janajaguriti Samiti (HJS)
Pansare chargesheet: ‘Sanatan Sanstha administered schizophrenia drugs, other psychiatric conditions’
Wives of accused list ‘divine medicines’ administered at ashrams, which they found were ‘amisulpride’, ‘resperidone’.
“The Government Wants Control, Not Peace”: An Interview with Khurram Parvez
By MOAZUM MOHAMMAD
On 14 September 2016, immigration authorities from the Indira Gandhi International airport disallowed Khurram Parvez, a 39-year-old Kashmiri human-rights activist, from boarding...
The Right’s problem with history
By Audrey Truschke
Somebody recently blasted a short Tweet at me invoking the Holocaust: “Gas this Jew.” This should be shocking, but sadly, such vitriol...
1984 anti-Sikh riots: Calls for justice in India
“Get up and crawl back into the train quickly. If they notice that you’re alive, you’ll be stoned to death.”
Sixty-four-year-old Satpal Singh, a pharmacology...
Muzaffarnagar riots: ‘We had been brothers until yesterday. Where did this...
All of 19 years old, Raheem’s voice was steady as he spoke about the uprooting, betrayal and loss his family endured during the communal...
Hindutva’s science envy
By Meera Nanda
Claiming an organic unity between the Vedic world view and modern science has been the agenda of Hindu nationalists from the very...
Gau Rakshaks — A Note
NDTV released a video on July 30, 2016 which posed the question, “Gau-Rakshaks—Protectors or Extortionists?”
https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/truth-vs-hype/truth-vs-hype-gau-rakshaks-protectors-or-extortionists-425653
The video shows how “gau rakshaks”, always associated with one...
Darkness at Dawn The murders of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and...
By Anosh Malekar
NARENDRA DABHOLKAR was in a chatty mood on the evening of 18 August 2013. The 67-year-old rationalist had delivered a lecture against...
Lesson from Gujarat: Cow protection vigilante groups need to be banned
By Ajaz Ashraf
The atrocities committed on four Dalits in Una, Gujarat, for skinning a dead cow has several layers of overlapping meanings. But perhaps...
