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Protests at Jantar Mantar against citizenship bill, NRC

People called for protest against NRC and CAB because it is against Constitution: Union | Photo from PTI Several people under different banners gathered at...

RSS and School Education

Excerpted from the Book Titled "RSS School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi" published by Sage Publications RSS And School Education The values of...

Supreme Court’s Babri ruling is cornerstone of Hindu Rashtra: Audrey Truschke

The Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgement enshrines Hindu majoritarian wishes as a principle of Indian law. / Kevin Ilango for The Caravan Maps of the Hindu...

In ‘Bunch Of Thoughts’ Golwalkar misquoted Nehru to push his own Islamophobia

Golwalkar claims that in his introduction to Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s Sanskriti Ke Char Adhyay, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote that foreign invaders such as the Hunas and the Shakas came to India, abandoned their customs and faiths, and started calling themselves Rajput. But even a cursory reading of Nehru’s introduction to Sanskriti shows that Golwalkar is guilty of interpolation

Essentials of Hindutva: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

At the end of the last century, a dangerous new idea was brewing in India – that of Hindu nationalism, of carving India out...

We, Or Our Nationhood Defined: Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar

Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, or M. S. Golwalkar, was the second Sarsanghchalak, or supremo, of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu right-wing cultural organization...

India under threat from the ideology that killed Mahatma Gandhi

The makeover in the image of Nathuram Godse is for everyone to see: from a murderer, a conspirator, terrorist to a ‘martyr’ who supposedly ‘deserves’ a temple in his name everywhere

Hindu Mahasabha rejected the Constitution of India, preferred Manusmriti

'The worst about the new constitution of Bharat is that there is nothing Bharatiya about it. In our constitution there is no mention of the unique constitutional development in ancient Bharat. Manu’s Laws were written long before Lycurgus of Sparta or Solon of Persia. To this day his laws as enunciated in the Manusmriti excite the admiration of the world and elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our constitutional pundits that means nothing'

Mob attacks Christian pastor, family in Uttarakhand

After a Hindu 'baba' threatened black magic against Christians in the village, all Christian families except the pastor's hurriedly converted to Hinduism. The attack came soon after

Internet ban brought Free Press Kashmir, a news website, to sudden death

On the evening of August 4, 15 ebullient reporters and editors of a web portal in Srinagar were working furiously on keyboards of their...

Origins of the Kashmir Conflict – An Essay

The modern day interpretation of the Kashmir conflict is predominantly an ideological one—Muslims versus Hindus—however, it didn't begin as such. Through power and international...

All-India NRC by 2024, all illegals will be expelled before polls: Amit Shah

Jharkhand Assembly Election 2019: "Today, I want to tell you that before the 2024 polls the NRC will be conducted across the country, and each and every infiltrator identified and expelled," Amit Shah said.

NRC, Assam, and what makes a citizen: Snakes-and-Ladders citizenship guide

Citizenship in Assam is currently in a crisis. The final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) excluded 19,06,657 people. The Assam government’s...

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