Manusmriti: Regressive mindset, discriminatory laws for Dalits and women
Laws of Manu Concerning Dalits/Untouchables
For the sake of the prosperity of the worlds (the divine one) caused the Brahmana, the Kshatriya, the Vaisya,...
BHU sacks Muslim Sanskrit lecturer after protests by Hindu students
It's getting harder by the day to figure out the self-appointed custodians of Indian culture. On the one hand, they are forcing Muslims to...
The Return of Manu
This story appeared in many publications on the eve of 55th anniversary (2004) of the Indian Republic. There was BJP government in Madhya Pradesh...
Anti-national game-plan of the RSS and other like-minded offshoots
It is time to be concerned about the increasing threats to the democratic-secular Indian polity from the Hindutva organizations. This document lists and counters...
Allies, opposition express concern after Amit Shah’s pan-India NRC statement
Attacking the BJP, Mamata Banerjee said that before talking about implementing NRC in West Bengal, the saffron party should answer why 14 lakh Hindus and Bengalis were omitted from the final NRC list in Assam
Gau rakshak economy at root of lynching
The cold truth is that Pehlu Khan invited his doom by avoiding payment of the exaggerated rates of cattle transportation. He fell prey to the compulsions of the gau rakshak economy. Now, cow politics, in the face of the verdict of acquittal, has resurrected his lynching all over again
Police complicit in cow vigilante violence against minorities: Human Rights Watch
On March 18, 2016, a group of men murdered two Muslim cattle herders who were on their way to sell bulls at an animal...
Muslims abandoned Congress in UP but had no option in Gujarat: Study
Around 15% of India’s population, Muslims were considered traditional voters of the Indian National Congress (INC) since Partition in 1947. But the failure of...
Racism Made Golwalkar Support Hitler, Hatred for Muslims Made Him Favor Expulsion from Palestine
Veteran Israeli politician Ariel Sharon had a way of talking peace when he meant the opposite. His stated purpose in going on a wander...
Hindutva and Hindu bias in India’s ‘secular’ constitution
The secularism in Indian constitution is widely overstated and overrated. In truth, the very process of the writing of the Constitution was tainted by repeated attempts, many of them successful, by right-wing Hindutva forces to subvert its secular and pluralist character. The taint persists to the present day
Ram has been demoted to the status of a partisan hero
Temple and mosque
Inside and beyond India, many have questioned the logic in the Supreme Court’s verdict giving to Hindu parties the disputed 2.77-acre site...
Blindness in Kashmir: An epidemic created by Indian Army
A doctor mourns a wholly avoidable epidemic of visual and moral impairment
India’s Supreme Court rules that Hindu temple may rise from mosque’s rubble (Open Democracy)
The court says that a Hindu mob broke the law when it demolished a 500-year-old mosque – but Hindus can now build a temple...
