Muslims targeted under Indian state’s ‘love jihad’ law
Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent
Hindu rightwing conspiracy theory prompts crackdown on interfaith marriages in Uttar Pradesh
Police in India have rounded up Muslim men and disrupted...
The Indian judiciary didn’t suddenly decline in the Modi years – it was always...
The narrative of decline comes from the fact that arbitrary use of judicial power was largely coded as a good thing earlier. BJP has...
Haryana: Minor girl raped and murdered in Sirsa village
By TNN
CHANDIGARH: In a shocking incident, two youths allegedly murdered a minor girl after raping her in a village falling under Sirsa Sadar police...
An Indian Case Against Citizenship Amendment Act
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Anti-Cow Slaughter Bill Passed in Karnataka, Jail Term Up to 5 Yrs
ARUN DEV - INDIA
The Karnataka Assembly on Wednesday, 9 December, passed the controversial Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill, 2020, amid...
Madhya Pradesh: Dalit man beaten to death for touching food at a feast, say...
By Scroll Staff
A 25-year-old Dalit man was beaten to death in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh because he had touched the food served at a feast, The...
Bajrang Dal neta in Assam warns Hindus against visiting church
SILCHAR: The Cachar district administration of Assam has asked the police to investigate an inflammatory speech reportedly made by a local Bajrang Dal leader...
Seven arrested under anti-conversion law in Uttar Pradesh
By Omar Rashid
After arresting a youth in Bareilly and filing cases in Mau and Muzaffarnagar, the Uttar Pradesh police have arrested seven persons in...
Christians from tribal community assaulted
The Christians had gathered on the night of 24 November to organise festivities for the Advent season, and to celebrate a traditional ceremony marking...
The Hindu Right’s purge of progressive Tamil television newsrooms
BY ABHEY RAGI
WHEN I SPOKE to a senior staffer of News18 Tamil Nadu in October, I was told the entire organisation was crumbling. Numerous staff...
Karnataka: BJP Minister says Muslim cannot contest for Belagavi Lok Sabha seat
Presenting communal sentiments yet again, Karnataka’s Rural Development Minister K. S. Eshwarappa on November 28, 2020 said that there was no question of Bharatiya...
Laws Against ‘Love Jihad’ Are Yet Another Serious Attack on India’s Once Secular Democracy
BY DEBASISH ROY CHOWDHURY
Even Netflix wasn’t ready for this plot twist. The central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh last week registered a police case against...
Interview: Vinay Sitapati on Vajpayee, Advani and the success of the Hindu nationalist movement
By Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
Vinay Sitapati is a political scientist and author of Half Lion, a biography of former Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao. His new book, Jugalbandi:...
