Yearly Archives: 2018

By Shreya Roy Chowdhury Gurmeet arrives in Ajmer on a crowded train. His friend Razzak picks him up and takes him to the dargah of...

Two years ago, I awoke to the following tweet, “I hope another Hitler comes back and finishes off your people”, accompanied by a picture from 1945 of the bodies of dead Jews piled outside a liberated concentration camp. Since then, I have been regularly attacked with anti-Semitic language and tropes on social media, especially on Twitter.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,...

Hindutva, or Hindu fascism, is a majoritarian political ideology and far-right ethnonationalist movement that uses religion as a justification for atrocities against Dalits, Muslims,...

By Rizwan Ahmad In August 2018, India’s Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) government renamed the historic Mughalsarai Junction Railway Station in the state of Uttar Pradesh after the...

By Pavan Kulkarni This article was first published on April 17, 2017 and is being republished on October 7, 2019 to coincide with celebrations of...

By Betwa Sharma NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh—"Uttar Pradesh needs a Balasaheb Thackeray," Amit Jani said last week, as he ladled porridge into a bowl. "That is...

On Friday, September 7th, six activists from Chicago South Asians for Justice stood up in the middle of the plenary panel of the World...

Describing the demolition of the Babri Masjid as a traumatic event, former Prime Minister said: “In particular, concerned citizens were deeply disappointed at the judiciary’s...

HYDERABAD: Retired metropolitan sessions, who resigned within hours after the acquittals of all the accused belonging to Right-wing extremist groups in the Makkah Masjid...

By FPJ Bureau Mumbai: In a sharp attack against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, Prakash Ambedkar, chief of the Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM), alleged...

As the second branch of government, the purpose of the legislature is to make laws that uphold the fundamental rights of all citizens. However,...

By Ankur Singh Using fake conference passes, six activists snuck into the main ballroom at the Westin Hotel in the Chicago suburb of Lombard, Illinois, on...