In Today’s India, the Law Is Being Subverted to Create Social Unrest
Cases like the one on the Gyanvapi Mosque show how the legal system is being used to promote disorder.
NFHS-5 Data Busts Right-Wing Myth of Indian Vegetarianism
Non-vegetarian food consumers have increased in India, including in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, as per data released by the recent National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5).
Fallacy of Hindutva Project
The most crucial issue is, why do the common Muslims of today’s India have to pay for the sins of ‘Muslim’ rulers of the past who had friendly and cordial relations with higher caste Hindus? We also need to investigate whether ‘Hindu’ history was devoid of religious, social and political persecution.
Elections Won or Lost, BJP Is Succeeding in Realising its Hindutva Dreams
The battle for a ‘Hindu rashtra’ has to be won in the minds of the people before it can be legitimised in Parliament. This requires a three pronged strategy: enlist support for the cause; discourage any opposition; and create on-ground conditions for a majoritarian state.
The Curious Case of Urdu
An onslaught on a community often takes the form of intense loathing of the language it communicates in. Urdu is an example of that.
In a Time of Religious Tension, Bengaluru’s Police & Religious Leaders Push Inter-Faith Traditions
At a time when Hindu fundamentalists, often aided by the government, have pushed or enforced bans or violence against minorities in Karnataka, a jurisdictional police chief in Bengaluru showed how the police could not just keep the peace but increase trust and traditional inter-faith relations.
Right to Food: Civil Society Condemns Targeting of Meat Sale and Consumption
Individuals and groups of India’s civil society have issued a statement saying they condemned the “food intolerance” being created in the country.
After 8 Years of Pleas, Kashmiri Pandits in Haryana Say BJP Govt Won’t Give Them Financial Assistance
In March, while the Bharatiya Janata Party in Haryana was promoting The Kashmir Files, Kashmiri Pandits in the state were telling us that the government of Manohar Lal Khattar had ignored their pleas for financial assistance in the eight years since they came to power, amid worsening economic woes.
How Hindutva Is Changing History and Science Textbooks in Schools
An excerpt from ‘Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy’.
Why Guru Tegh Bahadur Is Not the Anti-Muslim Icon BJP-RSS Claims He Is
Sikh scholars have expressed misgivings about the BJP government’s efforts to portray the Sikh Guru as a symbol against Muslims, with several of them insisting he died protecting the ethos of religious freedom.