Monthly Archives: August 2020
Talk of ‘UPSC Jihad’ a Baseless Attempt to Delegitimise Muslim Participation...
NC Asthana
The TV channel Sudarshan News (shared via the Twitter handle of its editor, @SureshChavhanke) had posted a 45-second-long promo of their programme titled Bindas Bol scheduled for daily...
Delhi 2020 religious riots: Amnesty International accuses police of rights abuses
Yogita Limaye
Indian police "committed serious human rights violations" during deadly religious riots in Delhi earlier this year, Amnesty International alleges.
It said police beat protesters,...
Factual Errors in ‘Delhi Riots 2020’ Book Fuel Conspiracy Theories
Himanshi Dahiya and Kritika Goel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=1SBRIuxiays&feature=emb_title
On Saturday, 22 August, Bloomsbury India pulled the plug on Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story – a book claiming to be...
“This Book Has Blood on Its Hands”
Sudhanva Deshpande
Bloomsbury has published a book about the recent Delhi riots. It is being launched by Kapil Mishra, whose incendiary speeches played a role...
Watch | Headless Minority Institutions: Deliberate Attempt to Silence Minorities?
Ismat Ara
Minority institutions, both under the Delhi government and the Centre, have been functioning without formal heads for several months now. The National Commission...
Kashmir Group Calls India’s Internet Ban ‘Digital Apartheid’
By The Associated Press
SRINAGAR, India — A prominent rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday described a communications blackout imposed by India following its...
Two arrested on charge of killing Dalit youth
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
The Vijayapura police have arrested two persons on charges of hacking to death a Dalit youth, allegedly because he tried to assert...
Uncle, Please Sit: Anti-Hindutva Politics Finds Shelter in a Generational Shift...
By Ram Vishwanathan
New Haven, Connecticut: Arms raised, Jagdish Sewhani posed for a photo in front of an electronic billboard he had organised at Times...
A Lawyer’s Tweets Put India’s Supreme Court on Trial and Him...
Karan Deep Singh and Hari Kumar
NEW DELHI — First, the firebrand lawyer wrote a one-sentence tweet opining about the Indian Supreme Court’s role in...
Modi’s new education policy: a next step in the saffronisation of...
Does India matter? The answer of Western media seems to be: hardly. Measured against population (one in almost five humans lives in India), history,...
On the Anniversary of Kandhamal Violence, the Least We Can Do...
By Apoorvanand
A lot of us may not know where Kandhamal is – or even what it is. A simple Google search will reveal that it’s a...
Explained: The Narendra Dabholkar murder case, seven years on
By Chandan Haygunde , Sushant Kulkarni ,
Exactly seven years ago, rationalist Dr Narendra Achyut Dabholkar was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants in Pune. His murder and...
