Muzaffarnagar riots: A case of intelligence failure in more ways than one
While most of India was gearing up to cheer for their favourite team in the finals of Asia Cup, the state Assembly of Uttar...
Who killed Govind Pansare?
By Ram Puniyani
It’s been nearly a month since senior CPI leader Govind Pansare was shot. But police remain clueless about the murder. Following pressure...
India’s Maharashtra state bans beef
The Indian president has approved a bill which bans the slaughter of cows and the sale and consumption of beef in the western state...
Indian Democracy and Hindu Populism: The Modi Regime
By Arvind Rajagopal
Quid rides? Mutato nomine, de te fabula narratur. — HoraceHorace, Satires 1.1.69-70.
Introducing the Problem
Why do you laugh? Change the name, and the story is...
Is RSS HQ becoming Narendra Modi’s 10 Janpath?
By Ajoy Bose
Are we witnessing an uncanny replay of the power struggle between former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his party boss Sonia Gandhi...
RSS-inspired charity under probe in UK over ‘extremist’ views ( The Economic Times)
LONDON: The UK has launched a probe after a "disturbing" footage caught a teacher on camera making anti- Muslim and Christian remarks to students...
RSS-inspired charity, Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, under probe in UK over ‘extremist’ views
The UK has launched a probe after a “disturbing” footage caught a teacher on camera making anti-Muslim and Christian remarks to students at a...
Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh (HSS): Hatred and extremist views in charities ( ITV)
An ITV documentary has revealed hatred and extremist views in registered charities.
A year-long investigation by the Exposure programme followed three separate organisations:
The Steadfast...
Promoting Prejudice, Poisoning Minds – Parivar’s intrusions into education
If there’s one thing that the 102nd Indian Science Congress, held in Mumbai, will be remembered for, it’s the outrageous claims made at it...
Conversion to Hindu Raj
By A.G. NOORANI
The ghar wapsi campaign, which follows from the purification theories propounded by Golwalkar and Savarkar, implies a clear rejection of Muslims and...
Project Hindutva
By Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
The reconversion programmes of the Dharam Jagran Samiti and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad are part of a massive expansion plan of the...
Fallacies of Hindutva Historiography
By Romila Thapar
Would the Hindutva historians, who claim that the Puranas, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are true historical records needing no further interpretation,...
In the Name of God
Since gaining independence in 1947, India has been a secular state. But now, as religious fundamentalism grips much of India's population, the greatest danger...
