Monthly Archives: December 2019
Internet ban brought Free Press Kashmir, a news website, to sudden...
On the evening of August 4, 15 ebullient reporters and editors of a web portal in Srinagar were working furiously on keyboards of their...
Origins of the Kashmir Conflict – An Essay
The modern day interpretation of the Kashmir conflict is predominantly an ideological one—Muslims versus Hindus—however, it didn't begin as such. Through power and international...
All-India NRC by 2024, all illegals will be expelled before polls:...
Jharkhand Assembly Election 2019: "Today, I want to tell you that before the 2024 polls the NRC will be conducted across the country, and each and every infiltrator identified and expelled," Amit Shah said.
NRC, Assam, and what makes a citizen: Snakes-and-Ladders citizenship guide
Citizenship in Assam is currently in a crisis. The final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) excluded 19,06,657 people. The Assam government’s...
The greatest threat to Indian security is communal violence, not terrorism
In 1992, I witnessed an Indian soldier hit a pregnant Kashmiri woman with his rifle butt and utter these words: “Get rid of the...
Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India: The New Yorker Report
The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies
How the Hindu Munnani s Vinayaga Chaturthi to spew venom
"The Christians and Muslims living here, they are not born on this soil. They might have changed their religion. If the ones who have converted say they cannot live here, then they must leave. They should not live here giving any trouble to the Hindus."
Hindu Mahasabha leader celebrates Mahatma Gandhi’s death by shooting him again
Hindu Mahasabha national secretary Shakun Pandey shot at an effigy of Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday, celebrating 'Martyr's Day' in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh.
A life of Hindu supremacy: In conversation with a Bajrang Dal...
The author presents a personal, first-person, account of his experience of working with Bajrang Dal activists in Ahmedabad. He attempts to throw light on...
The lessons from Germany and Italy for the Sangh Parivar’s fascism
Renowned historian, Prof Sumit Sarkar analyzed how demolition of mosque at Ayodhya was beginning of street violence of the fascist tradition. A quarter century later many of Professor's worries have turned into reality.
Designed To Exclude: How India’s Courts are allowing foreigners tribunals to...
The fate of over 1.9 million people who have been left out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam now rests with...
Controversial in Assam, the NRC could still become a reality for...
The citizens' register is, worryingly, a talking point ahead of next week's assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra
We will implement NRC across India, says Rajnath Singh
Addressing an event in Jharkhand's Bokaro, Rajnath Singh said, "We will implement NRC across all states of the country."
