The communal virus
By Vaishna Roy
As the number of cases pile up and deaths mount, one imagines that things couldn’t get worse. But one is wrong. Because,...
India is reeling from two deadly viruses: Covid-19 and Hindutva
By Sunita Viswanath
“Where are the moderate Hindus?”
Yesterday, a friend stopped me in my tracks with this question.
Ever since 9/11, many of us have heard the...
Yet another NRC reverification plea moved before SC
Assam’s State Coordinator of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has moved Supreme Court demanding a reverification of the NRC published on August 31,...
Lawyer who documented 6,733 Punjab disappearances, illegal cremations booked on 2019 I&B complaint
BY JATINDER KAUR TUR
The Chandigarh Police registered a first-information report against a United Kingdom-based lawyer Satnam Singh Bains on 19 April, nearly two years...
Political prisoners under Modi Regime in bad health, lose family amid COVID
By Yashraj Sharma
“Suppose my daughter has to stay in jail for a really long time and there comes a time when she is not able...
Laws Brought by Modi stops NGOs Distributing essential COVID Aid
By Sima Kotecha
The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) was amended at the height of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic last year.
The changes...
Calls to tackle caste-based discrimination in US gather steam
By Brain Osgood
San Francisco, California, the United States — Civil rights organisations and Dalit rights groups are adding urgency to their calls to end caste-based...
In Hindutva Hotbed Uttar Pradesh, 66% people blame Muslims for COVID
The ‘double mutation’ of COVID-19 in India is creating a possible increase in infectiousness, with the variant slowly becoming a global concern as it...
US Religious Freedom Report flags concerns about CAA, allegations that Muslims spread Covid in...
The United States, in its 2020 International Religious Freedom Report, has flagged discrimination and violence faced by minorities in India.
The report spoke of the Citizenship...
Hindutva is the woke culture of India
By Kaeshour
Hindutva is Indian woke culture. This may seem like an odd statement to make because a) woke-ism has specific post-War American civil rights...
Despite crisis, Modi’s Hindutva strategy ‘increased’ mass base in society and polity
By Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Narendra Modi and his RSS brethren can qualify as masters of fake claims. There is a long lists of lies spread...
Why India’s COVID-19 Catastrophe Is Indeed a ‘Crime Against Humanity’
By Siddharth S. Aatreya
In a gut-wrenching op-ed in The Guardian and The Wire on April 29, 2021, Arundhati Roy used the term “crime against...
Modi Govt’s Hindutva Outlook, Inability to Rely on Science Led to Disastrous COVID Handling:...
New Delhi: The latest editorial of CPI(M) mouthpiece People's Democracy has blamed the Narendra Modi government's "disastrous" handling of the COVID-19 pandemic to its...
