‘Attempt to Erase Every Aspect of Life of Indian Muslims’: Bebaak Collective
The Mumbai-based organisation has questioned the ‘complicity of the police’ in the communal clashes reported recently.
CBSE Drops Chapter on ‘Democracy and Diversity’ From Syllabus
The Central Board of Secondary Education has removed several other chapters too, including chapters about the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, the chronicles of Mughal courts and the industrial revolution.
Life Expectancy of Adivasis, Dalits & Muslims Lower Than Upper- Caste Hindus: New Studies
Compared to upper caste Hindus and other backward castes, Adivasis die four years, Dalits three years and Muslims a year earlier, and the Muslim life expectancy has worsened over the last 20 years, according to two new studies. The disparities are not due to wealth alone …
Welcome to the Bulldozer Republic
The BJP has picked up a playbook of authoritarian regimes when it razes homes and buildings of the poor and its critics. As in the past, people are paying the price for it today.
Proclamations of Hate in India’s Temples
Disallowing non-Hindus from performing in temples is a sign of failing to understand all that the temple space represents.
‘PM’s Silence Shows Armed Mobs Enjoy Official Patronage’: Opposition Leaders in Joint Statement; Also – Sonia Gandhi Statement.
Thirteen opposition leaders said, “We reiterate our commitment to combat and confront the poisonous ideologies which are attempting to entrench divisiveness in our society”; Also: “Apocalypse of Hatred, Bigotry, Intolerance, Untruth Engulfing Country: Sonia Gandhi.”
‘This Is Hindustan’: How a Hindu Woman Protected Muslim Shopkeepers During Riots in Rajasthan
Madhulika Rajput stood up to angry mobs, refusing to give up Muslims who had taken shelter in a shopping complex.
Jailed For 22 Months, Former Jamia Alumni President Asks If Stringent Laws Are Only For Muslims
A builder devoted to his alma mater, Shifa-ur-Rehman is one of the longest incarcerated accused in the Delhi riots conspiracy case. As we look back at the legal trajectory of his case, Rehman spoke to us from Tihar jail about the India he was born into, Islamophobia today, and the biased application of stringent laws.
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Savarkar as a Diehard Casteist: Evidence from Hindutva Archives
Savarkarites are claiming that Savarkar had imagined a nation free of malevolent social evils such as caste cruelty, Untouchability, and injustice towards women. A comparison of these claims with the writings and deeds of Savarkar as recorded in the Hindu Mahasabha archives.
Bhagat Singh Is Not the Man the Right Wants You to Think He Is
An excerpt from Revolutionary Passions shows that Bhagat Singh – who the Hindu Right tends to project as an antidote to the Congress and Gandhi – not only had close relations with Congress leaders, but was also critical of Hinduism.