Monthly Archives: March 2020
Threat to India’s Muslims no longer an ‘internal issue’ Country should...
Recent events in India have raised worldwide concern as the tempo of violence against the country’s 200 million Muslim minority by Hindu hooligans armed...
Shaheen Bagh Shooter Gets Bail
A Delhi court has granted bail to Kapil Baisala, arrested for firing in the air in southeast Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area during a protest...
Police In New Delhi Accused Of Failing To Protect Muslims
Days after what many call a pogrom in India's capital, schools and mosques are charred and thousands of mostly Muslims are homeless. Hindu nationalists...
The soundtrack of hate: Videos glorifying Hindu men forcefully putting color...
By MAKTOOB STAFF
In the run-up to Holi, many music videos encouraging Hindu men to put color on Muslim women this Holi were going viral...
Hindutva and the Meaning of Modernity
By M. Reza Pirbhai
Religious nationalism is ubiquitous today. Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim variants wield influence across the globe.
Some have attempted to...
Stand Against Hindu Fascism
By Asha Ramachandran
My dad is the odd one out in his family. While the rest of the family are devout, fundamentalist Hindus who support Prime...
‘Give Our Homes Back’: In Eidgah Relief Camp, Women Have Just...
The 'Women Only' section of the relief camp. Inside the camp, temporary tents made of vibrant cloths have been set up, with a clear...
Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati: The loudest hate monger against Muslims?
Leader of the Hindutva organization Hindu Swabhiman, President of the Akhil Bharatiya Sant Parishad and chief priest of the Devi Mandir at Dasna in...
Delhi Riots Aftermath: ‘How Do You Explain Such Violence?’
From outside a garage door in India's capital, you can hear the sound of wailing.
Inside, dozens of women in colorful headscarves sit cross-legged on...
Delhi violence: Centre bans two Malayalam channels for 48 hours for...
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting accused one of the channels of ‘deliberately focusing on the vandalism of the CAA supporters’.
The Narendra Modi government...
‘I cannot find my father’s body’: Delhi’s fearful Muslims mourn riot...
One week after the Indian capital’s worst religious violence in years, displaced Muslims describe losing everything
This article contains an image that some readers may...
Madhu Kishwar posts video showing ‘anatomy of riots’, but clip is...
Video shared by Madhu Kishwar actually shows events from 2018 when clashes broke out between two factions of Islamic movement Tabligh Jamaat in Bangladesh.
New...
Narendra Modi, an International Embarrassment
One of Narendra Modi’s proudest claims is that he has restored India’s prestige across the world.
Opinion surveys show that many voters supported him because...
