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Bharat Bhushan: PM as pilgrim – or Indianness redefined

By Bharat Bhushan  To understand the political change in India only in terms of a Congress-led government being replaced by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

What the government of Gujarat is encouraging children to read is dismaying

By Diksha Madhok Once Dr Radhakrishnan went for a dinner. There was a Briton at the event who said, “We are very dear to God.” Radhakrishnan...

Dont force feed faith When the Fringe Become the Mainstream

Dont  force feed faith And When the Fringe Become the Mainstream Teesta Setalvad As I write this we have been preparing to demonstrate against the shocking, though predictable conduct...

RSS Denigrating Freedom Struggle

Pearls of Wisdom of A RSS Leader ‘Elections equivalent to Independence Struggle’ Suresh Soni, RSS’s point person with the BJP, who facilitated ‘anointment’ of fellow Pracharak...

Communal Attacks on Muslims of Pune: A Fact Finding Report

Pune: This fact finding exercise was coordinated by National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO). Human right activists from different regions of India participated in...

Young techie Mohsin Shaikh lynched in Pune

By Mazin Khan Originally from Sholapur, Mohsin was beaten to death by members of the extremist right-wing group, Hindu Rashtra Sena when he was returning...

A Nightmare Materialises in India: Hindutva – Capitalism Takes Power

 By Praful Bidwai The Lok Sabha election has produced what was easily the worst conceivable outcome by giving an outright majority to the Bharatiya Janata Party...

Brainwashing in VHP’s Durga Vahini camp shocked me: Filmmaker

A young Indian girl at a militant training camp proclaims, "We have learned to use guns and we'll use them if we have to....

Should Only Minorities Be Worried Over Narendra Modi?

By Sanjay Kumar By stealth, wealth, and media barrage a phalanx of powerful interests is trying to create a public opinion favourable to Narendra Modi....

Fusing Hindu nationalism with corporate power

By Praful Bidwai TNI fellow Praful Bidwai warns that a BJP-led regime in India is likely to fuel communalism, discontinue  pro-poor social programmes, and follow...

Los Angeles NRIs/OFBJP-USA celebrate Narendra Modi’s victory (NRI Internet)

Los Angeles, May 16, 2014 NRIpress-Club,California Woodlands Restaurant in the city of Artesia, Los Angeles county was the venue for celebration of the Narendra Modi/BJP.NDA victory...

The BJP and the mainstreaming of majoritarianism | Mukul Kesavan

By Mukul Kesavan The most interesting — and insidious — aspect of this election is the mainstreaming of the sangh parivar’s principal belief: that India...

Narendra Modi: Britain can’t simply shrug off this Hindu extremist

Imagine this. A pogrom takes place in a foreign country targeting a minority group, say Christians, with hundreds brutally killed by rampaging mobs, many...

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