Gandhi, Godse and the Search for ‘Masculinity’ Within Hindutva
By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
The appalling hashtag of 'Nathuram Godse Zindabad' on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary this year on Twitter, is not the first time that...
Hindu nationalists see Muslim jihad everywhere in India
By Bhavya Dore
MUMBAI (RNS) — In India, the country with the world’s second-largest Muslim population, jihad can come in many forms. At least, that’s...
Babri demolition was planned, accused never denied proof — Justice Liberhan who headed enquiry
By BHADRA SINHA
New Delhi: Justice M.S. Liberhan, who headed the commission set up to look into events leading to the demolition of Babri Masjid on...
10 Reasons that prove Babri Masjid Demolition was Intentional and Deliberate
BY RUCHIRA GUPTA
I was an eyewitness, as a journalist, to the demolition of the 16th-century Babri Masjid in 1992. On the day of the...
Three arrested for smashing head of Dalit girl in U.P.’s Bhadohi
By Omar Rashid
The Bhadohi police on Friday said they had arrested three people on charges of smashing the head of a Dalit girl with...
With the Babri Masjid verdict, the judiciary has dug its reputation into an even-deeper...
By Sruthisagar Yamunan
Judges often say that a matter has “shocked the conscience of the court” to invoke their extraordinary powers and initiate tough action....
The Babri Masjid verdict was a dark day for India
A special court in India has acquitted all senior figures in the ruling party of their role in the Babri mosque demolition. While the...
Babri demolition was pre-planned, organised: Liberhan panel reached different conclusion from court
On Wednesday, a special Central Bureau of Investigation court acquitted all the 32 surviving people accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case. The court said that...
Justice in ruins: On Babri Masjid demolition case verdict
The ruins of the Babri Masjid were cleared in record time by the hordes of vandals mobilised for demolishing it. Some detritus was still...
Is the Indian Judiciary Independent Anymore?
The acquittal of senior BJP leaders on charges of criminal conspiracy over the destruction of the Babri mosque in 1992 is not just a...
Babri Mosque case: Indian courts are no longer immune to Hindutva frenzy
Instead of staying aloof from extremism, now even the courts have become exclusively Hindu courts, says the author.
All the 32 accused, including LK Advani,...
Hindutva and idea that ‘Hindus are in danger’ were born in Bengal
By SNIGDHENDU BHATTACHARYA / The Print
Nineteenth-century Bengal, the time and theatre of the Indian Renaissance from where many aspects of modern India originated, was...
Hathras gang rape: India victim cremated ‘without family’s consent’
The family of a Dalit (formerly untouchable) woman who died after she was gang-raped has accused police officials of cremating her body without their...
