From Babri Demolition to supporting Anna Hazare – Changing Strategies of RSS politics
By Ram Puniyani
This December, Babri demolition act completed its 19 years. On the occasion many a Muslim groups demanded the reconstruction of the masjid....
The Hindu right is spreading its poison via its schools network
By G Vishnu
Sangh owns one of the fastest growing education projects
Rights activists cry foul, as they see these schools in pursuit of communal agenda
Large...
The Communal Character of Anna Hazare’s Movement
By Bhanwar Meghwanshi
It has now been confirmed that the Anna Hazare-led so-called ‘second freedom struggle’—as some sections of the media have mistakenly chosen to...
The Norway massacre and the Indian connection
By Meera Nanda
The Norway massacre and the Indian connection
On 22 July, Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian, set off bombs in the heart of...
Ayodhya Verdict: Affirmation of Hindu Majoritarianism
By Ravi Kiran Jain
The Ayodhya Judgment, based on the “Faith and belief of the Hindus”, has forsaken the established principles of law of evidence...
Madhya Pradesh: Shadows of Hindu Rashtra
By Ram Puniyani
Madhya Pradesh is being ruled by the BJP Government for the last several years. This is one state where BJP and its...
Muslim actress branded a western slut after posing naked for Playboy (Indian Express)
By Agencies
The nude pictures of a Muslim actress in the German May 2011 issue of Playboy are stirring up outrage in the Muslim community.
Sila Sahin,a...
Why a good number of Hindus in America have started flying the saffron flag...
By Meera Nanda
Not as Old as You Think
…nor very Hindu either. There is telling evidence to debunk this nationalistic myth
No one denies that Hinduism’s...
Aseemananda’s Confession
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the confession made by Swami Aseemananda relating to the planning and execution of the bomb blasts...
Report of the symposium on ’Faith & Fact: Democracy After the Ayodhya Verdict’
By Muktadhara, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, New Delhi
The September 30 2010 verdict in the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi case, that began as a dispute over a...
Conflict and Suffering: Survivors of Carnages in 1984 and 2002
By Harsh Mander
The suffering of survivors of many of India’s most gruesome communal massacres and pogroms does not abate even with the passage of...
Politics, History, Religion and The Law: The Ayodhya Verdict
By Rohini Hensman
Reactions to the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Babri Masjid case have varied widely, from triumphalism from some actors, through appeals...
Appeasing the Hindu right
By Sukumar Muralidharan
A symbolic act, by all conventional definitions, involves a demonstration of intent, perhaps an evocation of a material outcome that is desired...
