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Gyanvapi Mosque
Hindutva in Judiciary
Allahabad HC orders ‘scientific survey’ of ‘shivling’ in Gyanvapi mosque (Maktoob)
The Allahabad High Court Friday set aside a lower court order and ordered a “scientific survey”, including carbon dating of what Hindu religious groups...
Hindutva in Judiciary
Hilal Ahmed writes: At Gyanvapi, the law feeds into BJP’s political imagination (Indian Express)
The Varanasi District Court order has legally transformed the Gyanvapi mosque into a disputed site. The court has accepted the legal claim made by five...
Hindutva in Judiciary
Gyanvapi Mosque: Varanasi Court Says Hindu Women’s Plea for Worship Maintainable (The Wire)
New Delhi: A Varanasi district court on Monday, September 12, dismissed the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee’s plea citing the Places of Worship Act and held...
Communalism
Supreme Court To Hear Plea Seeking Right To Worship Shivling Stated To Be Found In Gyanvapi Mosque On July 21
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to list on July 21 a plea to allow the worship of Shivling stated to be found in the premises...
Communalism
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...
Hindutva in Judiciary
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...
Hindutva in Legislative
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...
Ideology
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...
Communalism
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...