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Bombay HC CJ Mohit Shah offered Rs. 1 billion to my brother: Judge Loya’s...

Anuradha Biyani, a medical doctor based in Dhule, Maharashtra, told journalist Niranjan Takle that Chief Justice Shah wanted her brother to give a favorable judgment to Amit Shah, the prime accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case that he was presiding upon as trial judge. Loya’s father Harkishan said his son had told him he had offers to deliver a favorable judgment in exchange for money and a house in Mumbai

Judge Loya Case: Shocking details surrounding death of judge presiding over Sohrabuddin trial

The judiciary as well as the Maharashtra government tried to pass off trial judge Loya's death as natural. But Niranjan Takle, a journalist, spent months reconstructing the circumstances surrounding his death and came to the disturbing conclusion that not only was it suspicious but most likely a cold-blooded murder

Spreading Hindutva through education: Still a priority for the BJP?

ABSTRACT This article explores how the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pursued its ideology of Hindu nationalism through educational reforms. It pays most attention to...

When Veer Savarkar told me Muslims in India should be treated as ‘Negroes’ (DailyO)

By Tom Treanor Muslims ''will have the position of negroes in your country'' is only one of the many things Hindu ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar...

Taj and bigotry

By Audrey Truschke  The Taj Mahal is easily the most recognisable icon of modern India. The monument is a cash cow for the state, drawing...

How the police protected the murderers of Pehlu Khan

A local court in Rajasthan acquitted six out of the nine accused in 2017 Pehlu Khan lynching case. Pehlu Khan and his two sons...

India becoming dangerous for intellectuals, social activists

  By PUSHKAR RAJ When journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead in front of her house early last month, quite a few writers and social activists in...

Mohammad Akhlaq: The lynching that changed India

Dozens have been killed since 2015 killing of Akhlaq. We tell the stories of some of the victims and their accused.

Ideology spreading Hate is the Killer of Gauri Lankesh

By Ram Puniyani Murder of Gauri Lankesh (5th September 2017) came as a big shock to those who uphold progressive liberal values. The same was...

Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha in Coalitions

Like Jinnah, Savarkar too believed the Muslims as a separate nation. Both Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha opposed the Quit India Movement in August 1942

India: Assassinating Dissent | Mukul Kesavan

Gauri Lankesh was the editor of a weekly tabloid published in Kannada, the main language of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She was...

How political patronage has kept the Sanatan Sanstha afloat in Goa

Starting out as just a fringe irritant, the shadowy organisation has been emboldened by the Goa government’s support

Alt-Right and Hindutva

By Arunabha Bagchi On the occasion of our completing 70 years of Independence, a number of reputed English language newspapers published blogs of famous overseas...

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