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How Kashmir has kept up a slow-burning protest since Article 370 was revoked

This time, the Valley showed its anger not by pouring out into the streets but by staying in.

The Man stoking nationalism in India could succeed Modi one day

Amit Shah’s pro-Hindu agenda threatens India’s secular roots.

Assam braces for fresh ordeal as government pushes for NRC repeat

To acquire citizenship, the cut-off year is being pushed to 1951 from 1971 and many believe it will create a huge problem for the entire region

Muslims will not be allowed to have 4 wives, 40 children: BJP MP

Lucknow: Controversial M.P. of BJP, Mr. Sakshi Maharaj once again spread venom and told that in India, the law of four wives and forty...

To those crying for help, Gujarat police said: ‘We have no orders to save...

State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat Summary of the report on Gujarat Violence by Human Rights Watch in May 2002. Thirty-eight-year-old Mehboob...

28 deaths in Assam’s detention camps, minister tells Rajya Sabha

Twenty-eight people have died in Assam’s detention camps where suspected immigrants are confined, but these were not because of pressure or fear, the government...

UP Police accuse pastor of forced conversions, refuse to provide evidence

Police stormed and stopped Sunday worship at pastor Khaia's church and took him to the local police station. They would not say who had complained against him, or if they had any proof of his alleged wrong-doing

‘The (Muslim) girl was after all causing this trouble. I took my gun and...

Chilling incident excerpted from Krishna Gopal Rastogi's autobiography, "Aap Beeti"; Chapter Titled "Pracharak Ka Jeevan".

How The Congress Party protected Golwalkar in 1947

Excerpted from the autobiography of the first Home Secretary of UP, Rajeshwar Dayal, titled "A Life Of Our Times".

Emergency orders misused to harass Christians in Jammu and Kashmir

Increased security measures since the August 5 clampdown in Jammu and Kashmir are being used by radical Hindu nationalists to harass the state’s Christian community. The police are complicit in the harassment

Using the NRC as a Hindu nationalist tool

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India’s Assam state is being used to mark non-documented citizens as ‘infiltrators’ and ‘illegal immigrants’ and thus ineligible for registration. Such a system has been a long-standing demand of the local Assamese in order to protect their language, land and culture from ‘outsiders’ — primarily referring to the Bengali speaking population. This system is now being promoted by Hindu nationalists aiming to spread their ideology through India.

‘All-India NRC would turn citizens into supplicants’

The Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgment followed the logic of the original Ram Janmabhoomi campaigners down to the letter: the award of the entire site...

Fear and panic in Assam as millions left off NRC

India's only foreigner detention center which will house illegal immigrants in the north-eastern state of Assam will be operational early next year.  Nearly two...

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