Monthly Archives: November 2019
Emergency orders misused to harass Christians in Jammu and Kashmir
Increased security measures since the August 5 clampdown in Jammu and Kashmir are being used by radical Hindu nationalists to harass the state’s Christian community. The police are complicit in the harassment
Using the NRC as a Hindu nationalist tool
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India’s Assam state is being used to mark non-documented citizens as ‘infiltrators’ and ‘illegal immigrants’ and thus ineligible for registration. Such a system has been a long-standing demand of the local Assamese in order to protect their language, land and culture from ‘outsiders’ — primarily referring to the Bengali speaking population. This system is now being promoted by Hindu nationalists aiming to spread their ideology through India.
‘All-India NRC would turn citizens into supplicants’
The Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgment followed the logic of the original Ram Janmabhoomi campaigners down to the letter: the award of the entire site...
Fear and panic in Assam as millions left off NRC
India's only foreigner detention center which will house illegal immigrants in the north-eastern state of Assam will be operational early next year. Nearly two...
NRC: Why is India making its own people stateless?
DHAKA, Bangladesh — More than 1.9 million people living in Assam, a state of about 33 million in northeastern India, effectively became stateless recently....
Religious Freedom in India on downward trend: UCIRF Report 2019
In 2018, religious freedom conditions in India continued a downward trend. India has a long history as a secular democ- racy where religious communities...
Religious freedom implications of India’s NCR: USCIRF
Overview
On August 31, 2019, the government of the northeastern Indian state of Assam released an updated National Register of Citizens (NRC), originally introduced in...
RSS-BJP and Bharat Mata in the NorthEast
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a prominent member of the Sangh Parivar, emerged as the single largest political party in India, winning the general...
UP Government plans anti-conversion law to target Muslims, Christians
On November 21, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government of India’s Uttar Pradesh state proposed a draft bill that would regulate religious conversions...
Busting the Myths of Hindutva: The ‘Golden Age’ of the Vedas...
The numerous myths of a glorious past on which Hindutva stands is nothing but pure fiction, writes Dr. J. Kuruvachira
When the Dalits were ‘untouchables’ and not counted among Hindus
The possibility of losing a large portion of their official numbers sharpened the minds of high-caste Hindu leaders, who began at this point to vociferously claim Dalits as fellow Hindus and to accuse the colonial state of conspiring to undermine Hinduism by divide-and-rule tactics
Four Kashmiri Students Beaten Up, Attacked With Rods & Knives By...
Four Kashmiri students were beaten up by a mob of close to 70 people in Rajasthan’s Mewar University on November 22. One of the...
SC Ayodhya ruling: CJI Gogoi’s lack of transparency is a moral...
Supreme Court has descended into the arena of a communal conflict and stamped a blot on its reputation
