India’s Dharam Sansads: How the Youth Have Been Radicalised Since 1980s
By NILANJAN MUKHOPADHYAY
The recent controversy over statements made in Dharam Sansads in Haridwar and Raipur has turned the spotlight on these religious congregations. The following excerpt from Nilanjan...
Tek Fog: An App With BJP Footprints for Cyber Troops to Automate Hate, Manipulate...
By Ayushman Kaul and Devesh Kumar
New Delhi: Over a series of tweets in April 2020, an anonymous Twitter account @Aarthisharma08 claiming to be a disgruntled employee of the Bharatiya...
Hindutvavadi chauvinism needs to be censured
CHAUVINISM remains the greatest threat to pluralism and often triggers genocide. When a chauvinist group is in power, it poses a mortal threat to...
Ill-Treatment of Stan Swamy in Jail Should ‘Shake Foundation of Democracy’: Fellow Prisoner
By Sukanya Shantha
Mumbai: A pretrial detainee at the Taloja central prison in the outskirts of Mumbai, who spent close to a year with 84-year-old Jharkhand-based...
Delhi Police Makes Breakthrough in Bulli Bai: Why Didn’t It Act 6 Months Ago?
By MYTHREYEE RAMESH , HIMMAT SHALIGRAM
On 1 January, when hundreds of Muslim women started their New Year seeing their photos being misused and 'auctioned' on...
A new Modi rose in Kashi
By Hilal Ahmed
Narendra Modi’s self-representation as a religious icon — a committed devotee of Indian tradition and nationalism — in overtly Hindu terms underlines...
Goa Polls: To Offset Anti-Incumbency, BJP Turns to Hindutva, Polarisation
By Himadri Ghosh
Panaji: The recent ‘temple’ remark by Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant has stoked controversy and even put several BJP leaders in an uncomfortable situation. Political...
Bulli Bai auction: The audacious bullying of Indian Muslims
By RUBEN BANERJEE
Some 100 Muslim women in India had a disastrous start to 2022 when they woke up on January 1 to find that...
Ire on religious minorities: 79% Christian and Muslim NGOs denied FCRA, RSS affiliates spared
More than 70% of the total of 2,257 religious-nature organisations in the list of over 12,000 NGOs whose FCRA certificates regarded as invalid belonged...
Running a dirty poll campaign: Vilifying Muslim politicians and demeaning Muslim terms
By ARSHI QURESHI
As the campaign for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections heats up, major politicians are boldly using “Muslim” terms to gain entry into the...
Christians join Muslims as targets of Hindutva groups in Karnataka
KARNATAKA — The BJP-ruled state of Karnataka has emerged as the new ‘Hindutva laboratory’ where Christians joined Muslims as the targets of the far-right groups,...
Supreme Court must look into Haridwar hate speech
By Rekha Sharma
In the holy land of Haridwar, some people robed in saffron professing to be holy men held a “Dharam Sansad” between December...
