The fall and rise of India’s Yogi Adityanath
From small-town politician to chief minister of Uttar Pradesh through aggressive Hindu nationalism
LYNCHING MOBS, REPRESSIVE REGIME AND GLAMOURISATION OF WAR!
By Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal
A society made habitual of violence, intimidations, suspicions where killings, torture, sexual abuse and pellet-gun related blindings are the norm is...
The politics of religious hatemongering in India
Young holy cow in JaipurThe irresistible urge to mix politics and religion usually comes at the expense of secularism, tolerance and vulnerable minorities. We...
‘He asked if I eat beef and then started hitting me’: IIT Madras student
Sooraj R, the IIT Madras student who was attacked on Tuesday for participating in a beef fest, has in a video statement to the...
Saffronisation of education in BJP-ruled Rajasthan
By Tabeenah Anjum
There have been continuous attempts by the ruling BJP to saffronise the education system and root out liberal influences. For this, the...
Rajasthan textbooks: Stick to facts, don’t rewrite history
The case of the new Rajasthan textbooks is yet another chapter in the attempted politicisation of education in India. this is not the first...
Cow And Hindutva: Myths And Facts
The Hindutva juggernaut which rode on with Ram, love jihaad and ghar wapsi on top of it, is riding with cow this time. There have been countless incidents of lynching, maiming and robbing of Muslims and Dalits in the name of saving holy cows.
Who ‘loves’ Mob Violence ? Unfolding Hindu Rashtra in Slow Motion
By Subhash Gatade
Jaipur — Rajasthan State Commission for Minorities has sought a factual report on a video that went viral on Thursday showing four...
How Savarkar Escaped Conviction For Gandhi’s Assassination
By Pavan Kulkarni
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar turned his back on his lieutenants in order to escape charges in Gandhi’s murder. But a commission established his...
A nation of vigilantes – Lynch mob republic
By Mukul Kesavan
These three years have seen the State fuse with the street to create a vigilante nation. If India’s first national movement was...
Postcard News: Mass producing fake news
Alt News requests its readers to be extremely careful about articles from Postcard.news as there is a high likelihood of it being absolutely fake.