A History and Nature of the Ayodhya Dispute
By Irfan Engineer
In a surprise development, the Supreme Court, on March 21, 2017 urged the rival parties in the Ram Janamabhoomi – Babri Masjid...
Advani to Modi to Yogi, a Hindutva story foretold
Yogi Adityanath has completed a little more than a month at his new perch as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. And the highlight of...
India: Modi & Savarkar – Shared ideology and politics of majoritarianism
By A G Noorani
Modi & Savarkar: Ideological turns
V.D. Savarkar’s politics was a fight against history. Plagued by a minority complex, he was committed to...
RSS – BJP and the Importance of Education for Hindutva
By Ram Puniyani
Education has been the major area of work for RSS all through. Since it has a view of Nationalism which is opposed...
How Hindu supremacy is poisoning the Indian military
On Christmas day it happened. Retired veterans of the Indian army—ex-army chief General NC Vij, former IAF vice chief Air Marshal Bhushan Gokhale and...
What is Hindutva?
By A.G.Noorani
‘HINDUTVA’ sums up the ideology that moved champions of Hindu nationalism for decades before Partition. In 1923, V.D. Savarkar coined the term in...
Hindutva terror nexus and Narendra Modi’s letter of appreciation
Sanathan Sanstha, being probed for bomb blasts and assassination of three great democratic-secular intellectuals of India, Narendra Dhabolkar, Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi, is an offshoot (or vice versa) of Hindu Janajaguriti Samiti (HJS)
Pansare chargesheet: ‘Sanatan Sanstha administered schizophrenia drugs, other psychiatric conditions’
Wives of accused list ‘divine medicines’ administered at ashrams, which they found were ‘amisulpride’, ‘resperidone’.
“The Government Wants Control, Not Peace”: An Interview with Khurram Parvez
By MOAZUM MOHAMMAD
On 14 September 2016, immigration authorities from the Indira Gandhi International airport disallowed Khurram Parvez, a 39-year-old Kashmiri human-rights activist, from boarding...
The Right’s problem with history
By Audrey Truschke
Somebody recently blasted a short Tweet at me invoking the Holocaust: “Gas this Jew.” This should be shocking, but sadly, such vitriol...
1984 anti-Sikh riots: Calls for justice in India
“Get up and crawl back into the train quickly. If they notice that you’re alive, you’ll be stoned to death.”
Sixty-four-year-old Satpal Singh, a pharmacology...
Muzaffarnagar riots: ‘We had been brothers until yesterday. Where did this hatred come from?’
All of 19 years old, Raheem’s voice was steady as he spoke about the uprooting, betrayal and loss his family endured during the communal...
