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The greatest threat to Indian security is communal violence, not terrorism

In 1992, I witnessed an Indian soldier hit a pregnant Kashmiri woman with his rifle butt and utter these words: “Get rid of the...

Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India: The New Yorker Report

The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies

How the Hindu Munnani s Vinayaga Chaturthi to spew venom

"The Christians and Muslims living here, they are not born on this soil. They might have changed their religion. If the ones who have converted say they cannot live here, then they must leave. They should not live here giving any trouble to the Hindus."

Hindu Mahasabha leader celebrates Mahatma Gandhi’s death by shooting him again

Hindu Mahasabha national secretary Shakun Pandey shot at an effigy of Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday, celebrating 'Martyr's Day' in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh.

A life of Hindu supremacy: In conversation with a Bajrang Dal activist

The author presents a personal, first-person, account of his experience of working with Bajrang Dal activists in Ahmedabad. He attempts to throw light on...

The lessons from Germany and Italy for the Sangh Parivar’s fascism

Renowned historian, Prof Sumit Sarkar analyzed how demolition of mosque at Ayodhya was beginning of street violence of the fascist tradition. A quarter century later many of Professor's worries have turned into reality.

Designed To Exclude: How India’s Courts are allowing foreigners tribunals to render people stateless...

The fate of over 1.9 million people who have been left out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam now rests with...

Controversial in Assam, the NRC could still become a reality for the rest of...

The citizens' register is, worryingly, a talking point ahead of next week's assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra

We will implement NRC across India, says Rajnath Singh

Addressing an event in Jharkhand's Bokaro, Rajnath Singh said, "We will implement NRC across all states of the country."

Assam govt. has no information on those excluded from NRC, says minister

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said the Office of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) Coordinator has not shared the data of 19,06,657 excluded people with the state government.

‘Attack on Dalit activist reflects fragility of Hindu nationalist male ego’

The assault on Dalit gender equality activist Bindu Ammini, by a fervent Ayyappa devotee, reveals the fragility of the Hindu nationalist male ego and...

Army converts Kashmir’s schools, colleges into bunkers

The government's claims of 'normalcy' in Kashmir take a hit when the state of the educational institutions in Valley is reviewed. Classrooms that...

Trump, ‘Howdy, Modi!’ and the Diaspora: Do Indian Americans Support a Hindutva Agenda?

Events such as "Howdy, Modi!" need to be put in perspective—they are highly mediatised, scripted spectacles financed and designed by teams of dedicated Modi...

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