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By Rewriting India’s History, Hindutva Forces Meddling With India’s Present And Future

By Ashok Swain In India, the on-going debate over the rewriting of the history reflects the intense conflict between competing visions of national identity that...

By rewriting history, Hindu nationalists aim to assert their dominance over India

By RUPAM JAIN and TOM LASSETER NEW DELHI - During the first week of January last year, a group of Indian scholars gathered in a white bungalow on...

HINDU-MUSLIM VIOLENCE IN INDIA: A Postscript From the 21st Century

  This story first appeared on debrajray.com

Mohan Bhagwat Threatens To Overrun Indian Republic With Hindutva Mercenaries

Despite four years of the RSS (via its pocket organization BJP) rule in India under the leadership of PM Modi, a hardened practitioner of...

The Latest Skirmish in California’s Textbooks War Reveals the Mounting Influence of Hindutva in...

By ARIA THAKER Early in the morning, on 9 November 2017, hundreds of people flooded the headquarters of the California department of education. They lined...

The anatomy of another riot

Every riot today produces a set of staged narratives which are eerie to watch and strange to listen to. A riot is no longer...

Babri Masjid – India’s flashpoint

On 6 December 1992 thousands of Hindu fanatics tore down a medieval mosque in the temple town of Ayodhya, in India’s northern state of...

Fact finding report by Rashtra Seva Dal unearths a Saffron conspiracy

On January 1, 2018, thousands of Dalit families that had gathered at Bhima Koregaon to pay homage to the Dalit Mahar martyrs of the...

Right-wing outfits campaign in Karnataka against ‘love jihad’ (Live Mint)

By Sharan Poovanna Bengaluru:  Right-wing organizations, including Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Bajrang Dal and Durga Vahini, the women’s wing of the VHP, organized an awareness programme for parents...

The implications of coloring the secular Indian Army

Politicisation of the Indian Military: Why is it the talk of the town? India, by virtue of being a strong democratic institution, has taken pride...

Demolition of India’s Babri mosque – the ‘Hindutva project’ 25 years on

By Murali Krishnan (New Delhi) On Tuesday, the Indian Supreme Court began its hearing in the Babri Masjid (Babri mosque) dispute. It comes seven years...

How the Babri mosque destruction shaped India

On 6 December 1992, in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya, I saw a historic mosque, standing on ground believed to be the birthplace...

Glimpse Of Violence After Babri Masjid Demolition – ABVA Releases Digitized Version of Its...

Twenty five years after the Babri Masjid was demolished and violence unleashed on Muslim community in various parts of the country, AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi...

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