A Note on Dadri
By Mukul Dube
When I read of the killing, in Bisara village of Dadri, of a Muslim man by Hindus who suspected him of keeping...
Why India man was lynched over beef rumours
It was around 10.30pm on Monday night and the nine-member Akhlaq family had been preparing to go to bed after dinner.
Mohammad Akhlaq, a farm...
Sanathan Sanstha, a Less Known But Potent Member of the Hindutva Family
By Suhas Palshikar
The arrest of an activist having links with the Sanatan Samstha has somewhat deflected attention from the cause of the arrest —...
How Sanatan Sanstha turned Hindu spiritualism into terrorism
By SHIV VISVANATHAN
The sudden visibility of the Sanatan Sanstha in north Goa produces a whole range of stereotypes about Hindu spirituality and terrorism. Yet...
Institutional Communalism in India
By Pritam Singh
Introduction
This paper has three main objectives. The first objective is to draw attention to the anomalous and negative connotations of the word...
Malegaon Blast: NIA, BJP and Saffron Terror
Newsclick interviewed Human Rights Lawyer Nandita Haksar on the recent revelation by special public prosecutor Rohini Salian regarding the Malegaon blast case of 2008....
Majority Rule BJP
IN THE WORKINGS of any representative democracy with a written constitution that prescribes a system of checks and balances, there is always a tug...
The Great Divide
Partition displaced fifteen million people and killed more than a million.
Rewrite history to focus on Vedas: Hindutva activist
By Vikas Pathak, New Delhi
“History books from the Vedic times onwards should be rewritten. There should be focus on the Vedas and the Gita....
A Ban on Beef in India Is Not the Answer
The sacredness of cows in India might be a cliché, but it is deeply felt, rooted in the history of Hinduism. In Mumbai, one...
India’s new school textbooks favor Hindu nationalist themes, making minorities uneasy
By Mandakini Gahlot
NEW DELHI — Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s conservative Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in an unprecedented victory last summer, he...
The Dimapur Lynch Mob and Violence of Hurt Sentiments – PADS Statement
Statement by People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism
On 5th March a man was dragged out of the Central Prison in Dimapur in Nagaland...
‘As a Christian, suddenly I am a stranger in my own country’
Is it coincidence or a well-thought-out plan that the systematic targeting of a small and peaceful community should begin only after the BJP government of Narendra Modi came to power last May?, asks former super-cop Julio Ribeiro
