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Muslim women in India horrified to find themselves up for ‘auction’ on racist app

By Ananta Agarwal, Anagha Subhash Nair and Natsuki Arita''' Quratulain Rehbar was on a public bus in northern India earlier this month when a friend alerted her that her...

Journalists decry ‘forcible takeover’ of Kashmir Press Club

By Rifat Fareed Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Journalists have decried the “forcible and illegal takeover” of an independent media body by a group of journalists with the...

Rightwing Hindus accused of rising hate speech against Indian Muslims

By Murali Krishnan The petition also cites inflammatory speeches made by a Hindu seer, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, alleged anti-Muslim slogans made at a rally in...

Muslim students wearing hijabs kept out of classrooms for weeks at Indian college

A group of Muslim students from a government college in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have sat outside their classroom for weeks listening to lessons after their...

Not just police, even political parties reluctant to catch ‘Hindutva’ by its horns

By Ranjona Banerji You can get a case of sedition imposed on you for a cartoon that offends some politician or followers of a historical...

Netaji was not a friend of Hindutva: He was its adversary!

By Shubham Sharma for Hindutva Watch RSS-BJP’s infatuation with the anti-colonial nationalist leadership is not out of love and respect for the values that they...

How the ‘angry Hindu’ became the new normal and three other weekend reads

By Ipsita Chakravarty A bitter harvest It has come to this – the most shocking element of the “Bulli Bai” crime was that its perpetrators were...

Journalist Sajad Gul booked under PSA, shifted to Kotbalwal jail

By Pirzada Shakir Journalist Sajad Gul has been booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) and was subsequently shifted to Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu, police...

‘Genocidal Massacres’ A Very Real Danger In India: Genocide Watch Chairman

By Betwa Sharma It took one month and immense public pressure for the police to arrest Yati Narsinghanand, who organized a hate speech conference from December...

12 Arrested For Stoning Man To Death In Allegedly 1,000-Strong Mob Lynching

Simdega:  Three persons accused in the stoning and burning of a BJP worker in Jharkhand's Simdega district for allegedly illegally felling trees, which is against local tribal...

Militant Hindutva Leader Yati Narsinghanand Sent to 14-Day Judicial Custody

New Delhi: Yati Narsinghanand Giri (formerly Saraswati), militant Hindutva leader and mahamandaleshwar at the Juna Akhara has been arrested in Haridwar, according to Haridwar City SP Swatantra Kumar. The...

Bulli Bai’ App case – Advent of cyber Hindutva in India

By Syed Ali Mujtaba The arrests made in the ‘Bulli Bai’ app case by the cyber branch police from Mumbai and Delhi suggest the existence...

‘Dharma Sansad’ Hate Speech: Three Armed Forces Veterans Move SC Seeking SIT

New Delhi: Three retired members of the Indian Armed Forces have filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court seeking that a special investigation team...

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