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Right-wing elements communalise creation of new Punjab district

By Ziya Us Salam The Punjab government’s decision to create the Muslim-majority Malerkotla district has come under attack from BJP ideologues who, in disregard for...

Asif Lynching: Despite Witness Account, Police Discharge 4 Men

By AISHWARYA S IYER Despite Asif’s father and his brother and eyewitness Rashid having named four accused in the Asif lynching case, the Haryana Police...

How Hindutva works to create an urbanity of hate

By Fahad Zuberi  On May 28, 2021, 11 houses in close proximity to the Gorakhnath Temple in Gorakhpur were proposed to be acquired by the...

Uphill battle for survival for religious, ethnic minorities in Asia

Christian and other religious minorities in western India's Gujarat state are upset about a new state law which they say curtails their right to...

Karnataka: Assaulted over haircut, 2 dalits attempt suicide in Koppal

By Shreyas HS KOPPAL: Two dalit brothers who were thrashed and humiliated allegedly by uppercaste men for seeking a haircut in a village in Koppal...

India’s Democracy Is the World’s Problem

By Jonah Blank When the G7 group of rich democracies assembles this weekend in southwest England, it will discuss issues including COVID-19, taxes, and climate change....

Man Who Issued Viral Death Threat to Ravish Kumar Has Support of Violent Hindutva...

By Alishan Jafri New Delhi: On June 5, a video made by one Malik Sehrawat went viral on Twitter. In the video, originally posted on...

A month on, Tejasvi Surya’s Muslim victims are still waiting for relief

By Nidhi Suresh “One second, let me just give them the order number,” Salim said, reading out the Swiggy order number he had to pick...

Chilling video: Man claiming to be from Hindutva outfit Karni Sena threatens to pull...

In a chilling development, a man claiming to be a follower of Karni Sena chief Suraj Pal Amu has threatened to kill unborn babies...

We cannot survive here: Lakshadweep locals on administrator Praful Patel’s executive siege

By AATHIRA KONIKKARA On 5 December 2020, Praful Khoda Patel, a senior politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, took charge as the administrator of the...

What does state’s treatment of pre-trial political prisoners tell us?

June 6 was a sombre milestone — the third anniversary of the incarceration of five rights activists in the Bhima Koregaon conspiracy case. Eleven more were...

Dalit youth killed in Rajasthan by Upper Castes over Ambedkar poster

A 21-year-old Dalit man in Rajasthan has succumbed to injuries sustained in an assault by a group of men belonging to an OBC community...

Time: Facebook Banned a Hindu Militant Group—Then Left Most of Its Pages Online for...

BY BILLY PERRIGO  Facebook allowed a Hindu extremist group to operate openly on its platform for months, even after the company banned the group’s main pages...

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