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...
NRC: Why is India making its own people stateless?
DHAKA, Bangladesh — More than 1.9 million people living in Assam, a state of about 33 million in northeastern India, effectively became stateless recently....
Religious Freedom in India on downward trend: UCIRF Report 2019
In 2018, religious freedom conditions in India continued a downward trend. India has a long history as a secular democ- racy where religious communities...
Religious freedom implications of India’s NCR: USCIRF
Overview
On August 31, 2019, the government of the northeastern Indian state of Assam released an updated National Register of Citizens (NRC), originally introduced in...
RSS-BJP and Bharat Mata in the NorthEast
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a prominent member of the Sangh Parivar, emerged as the single largest political party in India, winning the general...
UP Government plans anti-conversion law to target Muslims, Christians
On November 21, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government of India’s Uttar Pradesh state proposed a draft bill that would regulate religious conversions...
Busting the Myths of Hindutva: The ‘Golden Age’ of the Vedas never existed, was...
The numerous myths of a glorious past on which Hindutva stands is nothing but pure fiction, writes Dr. J. Kuruvachira
When the Dalits were ‘untouchables’ and not counted among Hindus
The possibility of losing a large portion of their official numbers sharpened the minds of high-caste Hindu leaders, who began at this point to vociferously claim Dalits as fellow Hindus and to accuse the colonial state of conspiring to undermine Hinduism by divide-and-rule tactics
Four Kashmiri Students Beaten Up, Attacked With Rods & Knives By A Mob Of...
Four Kashmiri students were beaten up by a mob of close to 70 people in Rajasthan’s Mewar University on November 22. One of the...
