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On the 50th anniversary of India’s formal ‘Emergency’, how the RSS betrayed the anti-emergency struggle

How the authoritarian proto-fascist RSS not only in a sense supported India’s formal Emergency (1975-77), filed mercy petitions for early release from prison but also –in sharp contrast—played no part in the fierce and challenging struggle for India’s freedom against colonial rule

Monu Manesar, 20 others named in Bhiwani Double Murder: Rajasthan

Manesar is an icon of Hindutva in whose support huge 'Hindu Maha Panchayats' had been held in the aftermath of the killings.

Anti-Christian violence: Forcibly preventing prayer, raiding homes in Chhattisgarh, MP

Hindutva mobs target the Christian community this week, in separate incidents reported across states

Bajrang Dal threatens Muslim seller: Shop’s name “Zayed” instead of “Raju”

This helps Hindus recognise Hindus businesses so that they wouldn’t deal with Muslim traders/vendors; in short encourages socio-economic boycott and divisions

Maharashtra: CJP files complaint with Nagpur police against two trishul distribution events, organised by Bajrang Dal & VHP

At these events, tridents were distributed amongst men to stop “love jihad” and religious conversions

Arms training to minor and young girls in Madhya Pradesh

A local news channel had reported that right wing groups were training young girls from a hostel in ‘self defense’ using rifles and sticks

MP: AHP leader Pravin Togadia delivers hate speeches in 3 districts over 3 days, targets the religious minorities of India

Togadia can be heard in his speeches demanding that one lakh "Hanuman Chalisa Kendra" be built to unite Hindus in their fight against Muslims

CJP sends complaint to SP SDPO, Jalgaon against HJS event where conspiracy theories against Muslims was being peddled

CJP highlighted that the speech delivered by two unidentified speakers, one man and one woman, promoted an exclusionist ideology, targeting and alienating the Muslim community.

Videos of hundreds of women donning an orange dupatta and marching with sticks, swords in a military-style parade surface

This incident has been reported from Thrissur, Kerala, where the Hindutva group Durga Vahini was responsible for organising this rally

Cow vigilantism casts its ugly shadow on Maharashtra

Once confined to the northern parts of the country, incidents of cow vigilantism have now found a disturbing presence in Maharashtra as well.

Now ‘Hindu Rashtra’ enters temples in Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka

The Sanatan Sanstha celebrated the birth anniversary of its founder by arranging prayer meetings across these states praying for a ‘Hindu Rashtra’

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