India: how some Hindu nationalists are rewriting caste history in the name of decolonisation
By Shalini Sharma
With India in the middle of the world’s largest democratic exercise, universities are under the spotlight as never before. Over the past...
Gandhi’s Assassin, Godse’s ideological inheritors
By Dr Ram Puniyani
Pragya Thakur, Malegaon blast accused out on bail on health ground, is at the centre of the present turmoil around Nathuram...
They Peddle Myths and Call It History
By Romila Thapar
The election of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, or the B.J.P., in 2014 led to renewed efforts to rewrite Indian history...
Mercy Petitions of Hindutva icon ‘Veer’ Savarkar
MYTH
Savarkarites argue, “There are no evidences to prove that Savarkar collaborated with the British for his release from jail. In fact, his appeal for...
A LOOK INSIDE THE SCHOOL PROFESSIONALIZING INDIA’S NATIONALISTS
By Vidhi Doshi
MUMBAI—Vinay Sahasrabuddhe is on a mission that is at once impossibly simple and yet somehow insurmountable: He is training Indian politicians to be...
Notes on the RSS Combine – Ideology, Violence and Power
By Ram Puniyani
RSS core belief and mechanisms - Shakha Bauddhik, Shishu mandirs, social engineering, media, infiltration, social common sense, Hate, Violence, Polarization, Power
Rashtriya Swayamsevak...
Notes on the RSS Combine – Ideology, Violence and Power
By Ram Puniyani
RSS core belief and mechanisms - Shakha Bauddhik, Shishu mandirs, social engineering, media, infiltration, social common sense, Hate, Violence, Polarization, Power
Rashtriya Swayamsevak...
India has a public health crisis. It is called ‘fake news’
Disinformation can be defeated by treating the crisis as we responded to infectious diseases in the past.
India’s Supreme Court Is Teetering on the Edge
After an autocratic ruler tried to stymie the judiciary’s independence, advocates worked to depoliticize the body. But that wasn’t the only problem.
NEW DELHI—India has...
In the age of fake news, flashback to first kill: Graham Staines
Director of Graham Staines story says little has changed in 20 years
17 years on, Gujarat massacre of Muslims still polarizes Indian politics
Shakeela Bano, a witness who lost her family in the 2002 massacre of Muslims in India’s western state of Gujarat, poses during an interview...
17 years on, Gujarat massacre of Muslims still polarizes Indian politics
By Noemi Jabois Ahmadabad, India
Shakeela Bano’s family was charred to death in front of her eyes by a blood-thirsty mob of Hindus during the...
White nationalist terrorism and its saffron inspirations
“I have read the writings of Dylann Roof and many others, but only really took true inspiration from Knight Justiciar Breivik,” says Brenton Tarrant,...
