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Five members of UP Dalit family attacked by goons of land mafia

Five members of a Dalit family, including a woman, were attacked allegedly by a group of local goons outside their house in Hariharpur village...

Delhi riots: Two women describe how they coped in Tihar

By Pheroze L. Vincent Two imprisoned young women’s accounts of how they defeated the authorities’ efforts to “strip away” their “autonomy and humanity” form part...

Karnataka revokes Covid-19 relief to Muslim clerics after VHP opposition

By Nagarjun Dwarakanth The Karnataka government has withdrawn its decision to pay allowances to Muslim clerics as Covid-19 relief in the state from the funds...

Ramprasad Bismil: A revolutionary who fought against Communalism and Colonialism till the end

We are living in an age where appearance is given preference over content; where Image is used as a both signifier and signified. The...

UP: Dalit youths thrashed in public by upper caste men on suspicion of stealing...

Amethi: Even after 73 years of independence, there seems to be no end to caste atrocities in Uttar Pradesh. In a fresh incident, a group...

Tracing Hindutva movement’s roots in Bengal

By B.Sanjay New Delhi, June 11 (IANS): In post-partition India, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has remained the only prominent flag-bearer of the concept and the...

Under Modi, Politics of Polarisation Takes Over Development Narrative During Pandemic

By Zakia Soman This May marked seven years of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) rule. In 2014 and again in 2019, majority of Indian electorate...

Sedition case against Lakshadweep activist Aisha Sultana for calling administrator Patel ‘bio-weapon’

By Shaju Philip Lakshadweep police on Thursday registered a case of sedition against local resident and film activist Aisha Sultana for calling the Union Territory’s...

Right-wing elements communalise creation of new Punjab district

By Ziya Us Salam The Punjab government’s decision to create the Muslim-majority Malerkotla district has come under attack from BJP ideologues who, in disregard for...

Asif Lynching: Despite Witness Account, Police Discharge 4 Men

By AISHWARYA S IYER Despite Asif’s father and his brother and eyewitness Rashid having named four accused in the Asif lynching case, the Haryana Police...

How Hindutva works to create an urbanity of hate

By Fahad Zuberi  On May 28, 2021, 11 houses in close proximity to the Gorakhnath Temple in Gorakhpur were proposed to be acquired by the...

Uphill battle for survival for religious, ethnic minorities in Asia

Christian and other religious minorities in western India's Gujarat state are upset about a new state law which they say curtails their right to...

Karnataka: Assaulted over haircut, 2 dalits attempt suicide in Koppal

By Shreyas HS KOPPAL: Two dalit brothers who were thrashed and humiliated allegedly by uppercaste men for seeking a haircut in a village in Koppal...

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