Monthly Archives: January 2020
The world is already recognising refugees from the ‘Hindu Rashtra’
Recent case law from Canada, Australia and New Zealand suggests the Modi government’s policies have helped create a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’ among India’s minorities
You eat here but sing songs of Pakistan’, Congress worker told...
Congress worker and social activist Sadaf Jafar on Tuesday alleged that not only did male police officers assault her in custody but the police...
‘JNU attack: Muslim students’ rooms targeted’
Amidst the #FeeMustFall movement led by the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the campus witnessed massive violence on the last day of the...
The Message After JNU Attack Is Clear: No Space Is Safe
Every day, the ruling party's symbolism of violence is translated deeper into reality.
ABVP behind brutal well-planned attack on JNU students, victims say
Students accused the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, an affiliate of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, of orchestrating a violent attack on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus
Shocking Video Shows Masked Assailants Attacking JNU Students With Iron Rods
New Delhi: Mobile phone footage from a building at the Jawaharlal Nehru University showed a group of masked intruders armed with sticks and iron...
‘Will pack you off to your country’: Union Minister Babul Supriyo...
KOLKATA: A verbal spat has erupted between union minister Babul Supriyo and a Muslim college student in which he has threatened on social media...
In Delhi’s Defence Colony, disruption of CAA event underlines shrinking space...
Over a dozen Delhi Police personnel tried to “dissuade” a group of residents from holding a discussion on the Act at the behest of the colony's welfare association president
’30 minutes of pure terror’: Reporter covering JNU violence
New Delhi: It was a Sunday and I was relaxing at home, when all of a sudden, my phone rang. It was a call...
Pedagogy and Violence: Mapping the Everyday Politics of Hindutva
By Akanksha Mehta
During my doctoral research in 2013 and 2014, my Hindu right-wing research interviewees in suburban Mumbai and Thane made me aware of...
Yogi Adityanath: ‘Muslims did no favour to India by staying here’
Muslims who chose to stay in India when it was partitioned following independence from Britain did the country "no favours", Yogi Adityanath, one of...
BJP resorts to fake ‘lonely woman’ on Twitter to drum up...
A number — earlier shared by BJP leaders like Amit Shah asking people to give missed calls to show support for the Citizenship Amendment Act — is now being shared by many Twitter accounts pretending to be bored women looking for companionship.
“We’re 80%, You’re 15%”: BJP MLA’s Warning Over Citizenship Act Protests
Somashekhar Reddy said protesters who destroy public property will be made to pay.
