Communalism
VHP denied permission for August 28 yatra in Haryana’s Nuh district ( The Times of India )
By Manvir Saini / The Times of India
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has denied permission to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) Brij Mandal Jal Abhishek...
Karnataka writers, intellectuals write to state govt over ‘threat’ to their lives from right-wing forces ( The Federal )
By Muralidhara Khajane / The Federal
Multilingual actor and director Prakash Raj, who has long been a harsh critic of Hindutva politics and right-wing extremism,...
Karnataka cops dismiss communal angle in Udupi college incident; BJP deems police action ‘harassment’ (South First)
BY BELLIE THOMAS
The Udupi police on Tuesday, 25 July, categorically denied any communal angle in the Udupi college incident in which three women students...
Passenger’s viral concern over ‘Halal’ tea on Indian Railways coach (The Statesman)
A passenger’s recent complaint about ‘Halal’ tea being served on an Indian Railways coach has caused a stir on social media. The video capturing...
BJP-RSS Want to Turn Every Local Conflict Into a Broad Pattern of Hindus Vs Minorities: Hiren Gohain (News Click)
The recent delimitation issue in Assam has sparked widespread discontent and protests. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has been accused of engaging in...
Even a train tragedy in India is being blamed on Muslims online (Scroll)
Hours after the deadly train crash in Odisha’s Balasore killed at least 288 people and wounded 1,000 others on Friday evening, several social media...
Ground report: How a bogus communal angle was added to the Odisha train tragedy (News Laundry)
The Odisha train accident involving three trains has claimed approximately 275 lives and left 1,000 injured. But that hasn’t stopped unscrupulous elements from attempting...
Hindutva vs Hindutva, us vs them — what’s fuelling incidents of communal unrest in Maharashtra (The Print)
By MANASI PHADKE
Mumbai: American scholar Paul Brass, who has studied identity politics and communal violence in northern India extensively, talks of an “institutionalised riot system”...
School vandalised in Dehradun after Eid skit (The Times of India)
By TANMAYEE TYAGI
DEHRADUN: A popular school in Dehradun was vandalised, its window panes broken and furniture damaged after students performed a skit on Eid as...