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Karnataka: Another college bans entry of students wearing hijabs over ‘uniform norms’

NEW DELHI:   Political leaders, including Shashi Tharoor and Mehbooba Mufti, artists like Swara Bhashkar and others, have expressed deep anguish on the social media...

Can Fake Terror Charges Be an Election Issue in Majoritarian India?

By Neha Dixit Sarai Pohi (Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh): On a winter afternoon, young men with floppy hair and old men with long beards surround a petite...

Hindutva’s Unending Search for an Imaginary Past

By Subhash Gatade The Union Ministry of Culture recently declared a new museum would be built at Pusad, in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, in...

Hindu extremists target Muslim place of worship

Hindu extremists installed a loudspeaker on top of a temple to disrupt Azaan (the Muslim call to prayers).

The four VHP men who made Lavanya’s suicide a rallying point for the BJP...

By Sudipto Mondal  “Tamil Nadu is the birthplace of Hindutva,” believes Ashokji, spiritual mentor to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Ariyalur district, and the...

How uptick in anti-Christian violence threatens Indian democracy

By Sarita Santoshini  Somu Avaradhi has led mass at a local prayer house in India’s southern state of Karnataka every weekend for the past several years....

Indian ‘live auction’ exposes prejudice against Muslim women

By Quratulain Rehbar Quratulain Rehbar is a freelance journalist based in Kashmir. When the world was celebrating the beginning of the New Year, I found myself...

Assam man fighting citizenship battle dies by suicide

The 60-year-old dry fish seller Manik Das was fighting a legal battle to prove his citizenship before a Foreigner’s Tribunal (FT) in Assam since December...

1,807 Communal Riot Cases Registered in India During 2018-2020: Union Govt Tells RS

New Delhi: A total of 1,807 communal riot cases were registered in different parts of the country during 2018-2020 in which 8,565 people were arrested,...

Muslims & Christians as ‘new untouchables’: Veteran academics trace roots of Hindutva in Gujarat

By Rajiv Shah A new book by two veteran academics, “Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics: India’s Injurious Frame of Communalism”, perhaps for the first time traces the...

Police & Govt Ally With Hindu Groups Intimidating, Attacking Christians In MP, 0.29% Of...

By DEVENDRA PRATAP SINGH SHEKHAWAT Bhopal: Around 6 am on 6 December 2021 in the central Madhya Pradesh (MP) town of Vidisha, Brother Anthony, principal of...

As religious riots grow in India, critics accuse Facebook of fanning the flames

By Raksha Kumar Facebook removed from its platform a US sitting president whose words inspired people to violence in January 2021. But it hasn't done...

Sewa International: Service With An Ideological Edge (Outlook India)

Appendix C Sewa International: Service With An Ideological Edge For those attempting to understand the operations of the RSS, especially the role of foreign funds in...

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