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Gyanvapi Mosque

Why many Varanasi residents are unimpressed by the furore around the Gyanvapi mosque

By Aishwarya Iyer / Scroll Vijay Tiwari is still distressed about it. In March 2020, the Varanasi administration demolished the small shop where he sold...

Emotions Ignited: The Supreme Court is Battling Monsters of Its Own Making

By Apoorvanand / The Wire The Supreme Court of India is being called a Sharia Court by Hindutva trolls online after one its benches held Nupur...

Decoding Places of Worship Act; Why is SC hesitant to uphold it?

By NAYAB GAUHAR / Maktoob Media In his autobiography ‘My Country, My Life’, L.K Advani wrote “an exhilarating period of my life” while describing the...

Now they are coming for the Taj Mahal and the Qutb Minar

Will the Qutub Minar and the Taj Mahal too be destroyed by Hindutva vandals like the five-hundred-year-old Babri Masjid and replaced with temples? By Muqtedar...

Structure found in Gyanvapi mosque is fountain, not Shivling, says Hindu priest

The head priest of Kashi Karvat temple, which is located behind the Gyanvapi mosque, has said that the structure found at the mosque is...

Faith or Reason: Are the Judicial Victories of Hindutva Accidental?

By Shivasundar / The Wire Even though Hindutva organisations in India no longer need any institutional or constitutional endorsement of their actions or claims over...

In God’s name: Gyanvapi mosque case part of a push for Hindutva hegemony

By DIVYA TRIVEDIVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN / Frontline The Hindu Vishwambhar Nath Mishra, the mahant (head priest) of Sankat Mochan Hanuman Mandir, one of the oldest temples...

‘It will be a bulldozer this time’: In Varanasi, Hindutva groups impatient for Gyanvapi demolition

By Aishwarya Iyer / Scroll On April 1, just before Navratri, Hindutva groups in Varanasi organised a rally. It crossed Godoliya chowk, a bustling market...

To Demolish Gyanvapi, A Deluge Of Copy-Paste Petitions Aims To Overwhelm Muslim Defendants & India’s Judiciary

By BETWA SHARMA / Article-14 Varanasi: Sitting under a yellow-coloured tarpaulin tethered to a tree in a corner of the Varanasi district court, Sudhir Tripathi laid...