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Feminist group demands RSS condemn Mohandas’s ‘rape’ slander
The All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA), a national platform bringing together women, transgender and non-binary persons from democratic movements across the country, has issued an open letter to Rashtriya Swayamsevak...
Hate Offender: BJP state VP, Vikram Pawaskar uses abuse and intimidation against Satara’s Muslims, wants “Hindu Rashtra”
Accused of organising and stoking violence against Muslims in Satara (August-September 2023), SabrangIndia tracked down BJP’s Vikram Pawaskar. On September 15, as communal conflict was stoked over controversial social media posts in the western Maharashtra town, widespread destruction of minority property, the death of one Muslim man, with several others being injured resulted. Our investigation unearthed a previous history of hate speech that are attributable to this party functionary
JNU: RSS cadres march with saffron flags and sticks, hold meeting inside campus
Nearly 200-odd men from the cadres of the supremacist organisation--in dark-brown trousers and white shirts — the RSS uniform — held the march from the main gate to the university’s administrative block, where they held the meeting reported The Telegraph
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s Vijayadashami speech blows BJP’s poll bugle, extolls G-20 summit, asks if “external forces” were responsible for Manipur violence
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief, Bhagwat stated that he may not be able to attend the inauguration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya on January 22, 2024. For “security reasons as asked people to celebrate the occasion in their own hometowns; This year, the RSS invited singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan was one of the chief guests at its annual, Vijayadashmi (Dussehra) event in Nagpur, also event attended by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
VHP leader Sharan Pumpwell stopped by police from entering Udupi for attending Hindu Samajotsava
The prohibitive directive stemmed from the conditional bail granted to him in the case of delivering alleged provocative speech, raising calls of women taking up arms
Hindutva mob beats up teacher inside school for teaching diversity
Another harrowing incident of mob rule emerges from Gujarat, after a private school teacher was beaten for allegedly making students perform namaz as part of an awareness activity
Hate Speech: T Raja Singh attempts to incite hate in Rajasthan
A repeat offender, T Raja Singh continues to deliver hate speeches with impunity in Rajasthan while law enforcers and social media companies look away.
Hate speeches, stone pelting, brandishing of weapons – what VHP’s Shaurya Yatras have achieved till date
As Calcutta HC allows VHP- Bajrang Dal ‘Shaurya’ Yatras in the state, an analysis of videos that have emerged show myriad violations and targeting of religious minorities at events held to date
An open letter to the JNU VC: Your association with RSS defies humanism, anti-colonial struggle for Indian democracy!
This open letter by historian, Shamsul Islam traces the history of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) today stigmatised by the supremacist ideology of practioneers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
Far right, Hindutva ideology sparks concerns: tridents and pledges deepen communal divides in India’s Heartland
Tridents as Symbols: Unmasking the Ideological Shift in Rajasthan's Communal Landscape."
Busted: Assam chief minister’s claim that Bajrang Dal has no links with RSS
RSS’ own archives belie this claim that its octopus-like connections do not extend to the Bajrang Dal
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In a strongly worded judgment, the Court holds that the 1986 law prescribes punishment without creating a distinct offence and criticises the gang-chart mechanism, but stops short of deciding whether the legislation itself passes constitutional muster
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Alleging that a staggering one crore persons will be finally excluded from the Karnataka state electoral rolls, MG Devasahayam, a former IAS officer, who was recently interviewed by the Kannada daily Vartabharati stated that opposition political parties had failed the voter while citizens groups had posed a robust challenge to the SIR process
Gender and Sexuality
When Suspicion Becomes Deportation: The case of Sahida Fakir and the dangerous criminalisation of Bengali identity
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Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
The women India continues to ignore
It is 76 years into the adoption of the Indian Constitution. However, the fundamental promises of equality and dignity remain elusive for many communities - none more so than Dalit women. What is even starker is the sheer indifference of institutions towards their plight. This piece aims to highlight how the understanding of “women” does not mechanically encompass Dalit women and accentuate the underlying forces that precludes the empowerment of women from the most downtrodden sections of Indian society.
Politics
The State Wants the Delete Button: India’s new architecture of digital censorship
Nearly 1.95 lakh blocking directions in five months raise urgent questions about transparency, due process and the constitutional limits of government control over online speech
India
Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12
Nearly 1.94 crore (19.4 million) enumeration forms digitised during SIR; over 20 lakh electors categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), Voters whose names are missing from the draft can file claims for inclusion till September 12, even as complaints on social media during the enumeration phase highlighted difficulties faced by electors
Communalism
When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat
From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands
India
Maharashtra SIR: 2.08 crore (20.8 million) voter forms “uncollected” hence may not be listed in August 24 draft electoral roll
More than 1 in 5 voter enumeration forms have remained “uncollected” on the final day of Maharashtra’s SIR exercise, with urban districts accounting for a large share of those bureaucratically “excluded”-- nearly 95 lakh forms were uncollected in Thane, Mumbai and Pune, though voters left out of the draft will get a month to seek inclusion or correction