Evil Stalks The Land
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Muzaffarnagar: Tales of death and despair in India’s riot-hit town
Nearly 50 people died in the Hindu-Muslim clashes which erupted on 7 September in India's town of Muzaffarnagar. The riots have been described as...
Hindutva’s chronic hate speech | Jyoti Punvani
Hindutva’s chronic hate speech
Inflammatory speeches are made and content published but no action is taken. Is there nothing we as journalists can do about...
Fear stalks displaced Muslims after Muzaffarnagar riots
BASSI KALA RELIEF CAMP, MUZAFFARNAGAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the crowd of Hindu men came brandishing guns, swords and machetes, shouting that Muslims...
Muzaffarnagar 2013: Violence by Political Design | Report of an independent fact finding group
Muzaffarnagar 2013: Violence by Political Design
17.09.2013
This fact-finding exercise was coordinated by the Centre for Policy Analysis. Team members were the human rights activist and...
Muzaffarnagar riots: politicians banned over fears of spreading violence
Politicians have been banned from entering a district in the north of India after political parties were blamed for fomenting a wave of sectarian...
Who Killed Narendra Dabholkar?
By Ram Puniyani
The brutal killing of Dr. Narendra Dabholkar (20th August 2013) is a big jolt to the social movement against blind faith and...
Reason under attack
By Jawed Naqvi
The regressive tendencies have been honed and shepherded to align with the country’s already warped sense of nationalism. Together they threaten to...
MODI PHENOMENON: AN ATTACK ON INDIAN DEMOCRACY
By Ram Puniyani
Currently (August 2013) Narendra Modi is trying to dominate the media, print social and TV through his carefully constructed propaganda machinery and...
The parivar in America
By Christophe Jaffrelot
The controversy that has been raging about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s US visa suggests that for the BJP, the United States...
Shastra Pujas: what is religious about worshipping arms?
By Subhash Gatade
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Schools are meant for play and studies where kids slowly blossom into adolescents.
Schools are meant for books, laboratories and other cultural activities...
Hindutva Terror in Karnataka: Malleswaram or Was It Hubli 2.0
By Subhash Gatade
Imagine a bomb blast in a lane near the ruling party's office just before the elections which is immediately attributed to an...
Interpreting fascism, one fascist at a time
By Javed Anand
In the past two decades or so, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the sangh parivar as a whole and its ideological affiliates...