The Politics of Identity: State-building and Erasure in Modi’s ‘New’ India(George Town)
The relationship between state power and historical memory is important to understand. As part of state-building projects, historical architectures are shaped and edited, identities...
University Grants Commission asks universities, colleges to set up selfie points with images of...
The University Grants Commission has asked all universities and colleges in the country to set up selfie points with images of Prime Minister Narendra...
How the media covered religious conversions in Modi’s first term (The Caravan)
By ARSHU JOHN
ELECTION SEASON IN INDIA is the season of communal polarisation, and nothing divides as consistently as the “Hindu khatre mein hai”—Hindus are in danger—narrative,...
I sought action against Bidhuri for slurs, but I got notice to explain ‘misconduct’,...
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Danish Ali on Friday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to protest against a notice from the Privileges...
NIT Srinagar Closed After Social Media Post Controversy, Govt Asks Other Colleges to Go...
New Delhi: Kashmir remains on edge in the aftermath of a controversial social media post shared by a non-local student of the prestigious National Institute...
DU Academic Council Members Criticise Invitation to RSS Secretary for University Event (The Wire)
New Delhi: Members of the University of Delhi’s Academic Council have criticised the university’s decision to invite Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) secretary Bharat Bhushan as...
Pravin Togadia delivers hate speech targeting Muslims in Haridwar
Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad (AHP) chief Pravin Togadia addressed hundreds of workers at an event in Haridwar where he indulged in fear-mongering while peddling anti-Muslim...
India’s most populous state tops in persecuting Christians (UCA News)
Nearly 400 Christians have been arrested in a northern Indian state in the past three years since the imposition of a stringent law prohibiting religious conversions,...
Keeping up with UP | How the Sangh Parivar’s campaign for Mathura’s Janmabhoomi evolved...
On March 6, 1983, at its Muzaffarnagar convention, the Hindu Jagran Manch passed a resolution for the liberation of Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya, Krishna...
Tension in Karnataka’s Raichur over construction of dargah arch (Deccan Herald)
Tension prevailed in the city for a while when a group of BJP workers, joined by Sri Ram Sene and Bajrang Dal activists, raised...
Karnataka: Elderly blind Muslim allegedly assaulted, forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram” (Maktoobmedia)
In another hate crime that unfolded in Karnataka’s Gangavathi, a blind Muslim man was brutally attacked by individuals allegedly associated with Hindutva groups for refusing to...
How BJP, VHP & RSS are mobilising people across India for Ram Lalla’s pran...
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — along with its ideological fountainhead, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and right-wing affiliate Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)...
