Indian court prohibits large religious gathering at mosque after precious Hindu idols found (South...
Gyanvapi mosque, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, may have been built after historic temple was demolished; relics of Shiva and other Hindu symbols found
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Full Text: Ashutosh Varshney on BJP’s Communal Plan, Rights and the Future of India
By Sidharth Bhatia / The Wire
The following is the transcript of a chat between TheWire‘s founding editor, Sidharth Bhatia, and Professor Ashutosh Varshney. The...
India redrawing Kashmir assembly seats to ‘disempower Muslims’?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has released a list of redrawn electoral constituencies in Indian-administered Kashmir, giving greater representation to the Muslim-majority region’s Hindu...
Why Mewat Is a Growing Epicentre of Anti-Muslim Hate and Hindutva Vigilantism
By MEGHNAD BOSE / The Quint
In May 2021, a Hindutva mahapanchayat was held in Mewat’s Indri village. It witnessed several anti-Muslim hate speeches made...
UP: Muslim woman shot dead by police while resisting her son’s detention in cow...
A 53-year-old Muslim woman, named Roshni who resisted her son’s detention in a cow slaughter case, died in police firing at Islamnagar village in...
Indian Authorities Demand Pastors Cease Religious Activities
05/16/2022 India (International Christian Concern) – Last week, authorities in the Basti district of Uttar Pradesh summoned several Pastors to the police station. The officers...
Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik calls for a blanket ban on Islamic seminaries
Hindu extremist leader Pramod Muthalik of Sri Ram Sene has demanded from state and central govt to ban Madrasas. Muthalik says Hindu tax payers...
Lucknow University Prof Who Was ‘Attacked’ By ABVP Still Struggling to File an FIR
By Asad Rizvi / The Wire
Lucknow: Professor Ravi Kant Chandan of Lucknow University (LU) is running from pillar to post to try and register...
Karnataka: Now, Hanuman temple claim over Tipu Sultan’s mosque
While the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi has triggered a debate across the country, about whether the religious place was built on Hindu temples or...
No End to ‘Tamas’ (Darkness) Around?
By Subhash Gatade / News Click
It was the early 1970s when Bhisham Sahni, the legendary Hindi writer had penned the novel Tamas. It looks...
Using court cases, Hindutva forces plan to keep communal pot simmering
By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay / The Federal
By all parameters of logic, the opinion of two judges of the Allahabad High Court who threw out the...
‘Let Me See File’: SC Refuses to Pass Order to Stop Gyanvapi Mosque Survey
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday, May 13, refused to pass an order on an appeal seeking to stay a Varanasi court’s recent...
Dalit village panchayat official ends life in Vellore, local DMK leader booked for abetment...
A DMK panchayat union ward councillor was booked in connection with the alleged suicide of a village panchayat official near Tamil Nadu’s Vellore following...
