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Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha in Coalitions

Like Jinnah, Savarkar too believed the Muslims as a separate nation. Both Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha opposed the Quit India Movement in August 1942

India: Assassinating Dissent | Mukul Kesavan

Gauri Lankesh was the editor of a weekly tabloid published in Kannada, the main language of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She was...

How political patronage has kept the Sanatan Sanstha afloat in Goa

Starting out as just a fringe irritant, the shadowy organisation has been emboldened by the Goa government’s support

Alt-Right and Hindutva

By Arunabha Bagchi On the occasion of our completing 70 years of Independence, a number of reputed English language newspapers published blogs of famous overseas...

Distortion of truth and the undermining of democracy under reign of...

By Ananya Vajpeyi Between sophistry and silence Can the ongoing devaluation of language and undermining of democracy be reversed? The outgoing Vice President, M. Hamid Ansari, was...

A Thana Coloured Saffron

By Aakash Joshi  The least problematic aspect of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s statement implying that Muslim residents offering namaz in public are comparable...

What is RSS agenda in Education?

By Ram Puniyani In its recommendation to NCERT, Shiksha Sanskriti Uthan Nyas, an RSS affiliate asks for removal of English, Urdu and Arabic words, the...

Life without basic facilities for Muslims displaced after Muzaffarnagar riots

Close to four years since the riots, Muslim families that were forced to leave their homes reside in settlement camps, with little access to...

Sadhvi Ritambhara Gets $1.80 Million For Hindu Museum From U.S. Donor...

Sadhvi Ritambhara Devi’s oratory skills are legendary and a packed room of prominent Hindu leaders in Houston were witness to the full force of...

Rewriting history: Akbar lost to Maharana Pratap; Mahatma, Nehru missing from...

BJP-ruled states are facing increasing criticism for allegedly re-writing history of India to give it a right-wing perspective: portray Mughals ruler as mass murderers...

The Meaning of India’s ‘Beef Lynchings’

The rise in anti-Muslim violence under Modi suggests that the demons of the country’s past are very much alive. One day in June, towards the...

How Muslims in India Responded to the Demolition of the Babri...

By SEEMA MUSTAFA Seema Mustafa is a senior journalist who has reported for papers such The Pioneer, the Indian Express, the Telegraph, and Asian Age,...

Beware of the rise of Hindu supremacists in America

By VIKRAM ZUTSHI According to the Dharma Shastras, travelling abroad or crossing large bodies of water (Samudrolanghana) was sufficient cause for chaste Brahmins to be...

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