Hindu right rewriting Indian textbooks
By Raksha Kumar
Ahmedabad, Gujarat – You cannot blame Bhavana Vaja, 12, for telling you that the first aeroplane was invented during the mythical Dvapara Yuga, when the...
Adivasis of Jharkand and the RSS – Hindi pamphlet by Vir Bharat Talwar
This is a pioneering (possibly the first such) pamphlet on the Tribals of Jharkand and the R.S.S. (the Hindutva right wing organisation). The author...
It’s Time India Accept Responsibility for Its 1984 Sikh Genocide
By Simran Jeet Singh
1984 remains one of the darkest years in modern Indian history. In June of that year, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered...
India: No Justice for 1984 Anti-Sikh Bloodshed
(New York) – Successive Indian governments’ failure to prosecute those most responsible for killings and other abuses during the 1984 anti-Sikh violence highlights India’s...
Love, Jihad and Political Lust
Chanting hymns and spraying holy Ganga water, a group of religious leaders and students from the rightwing conducted the purification ritual of a 26-year-old...
DOORDARSHAN AS RSS’S PUBLICITY AGENT: DANGEROUS HINDUTVA PORTENTS
By Praful Bidwai
Hindutva crossed another red line in Indian politics on October 3 when the state-owned Doordarshan news channel made a live broadcast, for...
Divide and win
WESTERN UTTAR PRADESH
Another laboratory
Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta in Aligarh and Hathras
FOR many political observers, western Uttar Pradesh has evolved as the biggest north Indian Hindutva...
1984 riots: Thirty years of impunity
By Manoj Mitta
My presentation at a Congressional briefing in the Capitol Hill complex organised by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on September 30,...
Stop new Babri movement against churches
By SA Aiyar
When the demolition of the Babri Masjid was threatened in 1991, Parliament en acted a law prohibiting the conversion of any place...
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
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When the Fringe Become the Mainstream
Teesta Setalvad
As I write this we have been preparing to demonstrate against the shocking, though predictable conduct...
