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India has a public health crisis. It is called ‘fake news’

Disinformation can be defeated by treating the crisis as we responded to infectious diseases in the past.

India’s Supreme Court Is Teetering on the Edge

After an autocratic ruler tried to stymie the judiciary’s independence, advocates worked to depoliticize the body. But that wasn’t the only problem. NEW DELHI—India has...

In the age of fake news, flashback to first kill: Graham...

Director of Graham Staines story says little has changed in 20 years

17 years on, Gujarat massacre of Muslims still polarizes Indian politics

Shakeela Bano, a witness who lost her family in the 2002 massacre of Muslims in India’s western state of Gujarat, poses during an interview...

17 years on, Gujarat massacre of Muslims still polarizes Indian politics

By Noemi Jabois Ahmadabad, India Shakeela Bano’s family was charred to death in front of her eyes by a blood-thirsty mob of Hindus during the...

White nationalist terrorism and its saffron inspirations

“I have read the writings of Dylann Roof and many others, but only really took true inspiration from Knight Justiciar Breivik,” says Brenton Tarrant,...

Tulsi Gabbard and Her Hindutva Connection

Gabbard has openly shown her support for authoritarians abroad including the president of Egypt Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and India’s PM Narendra...

‘Clean chit’ to Narendra Modi did not absolve him in Gujarat...

An excerpt from Harsh Mander’s book, ‘Between Memory and Forgetting’ that revisits the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002.

‘Hindutva terror’ acquittals expose India’s deeply compromised criminal justice system

India’s criminal justice system has long been profoundly compromised by its deeply ingrained prejudice against India’s oppressed populations – Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, women and...

Hollywood film memorializes lynched Australian missionary Graham Staines

It was January of 1999 when Graham was burnt to death with his sons Timothy and Philip – who were only 10 and 6...

Is Hindutva Masculinity on Social Media Producing A Culture of Violence...

Your Chowkidar is standing firm & serving the nation. But, I am not alone. Everyone who is fighting corruption, dirt, social evils is a Chowkidar. Everyone working...

‘The Graham Staines Story’ a grim reminder of horrors of religious...

Two days before the March 29 release of The Least of These: The Graham Staines Story, a Twitter post was being widely circulated, accusing...

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