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How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand
What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar
How RSS betrayed the struggle against the Emergency, from its archives
Today, June 25, the 48th anniversary of the Emergency, the author looks deep into the authoritarian veins of the organization and exposes how, despite this, some cadres benefit from a significant state monthly pension for being in jail less than two months
What’s wrong, asks district collector spotted making the RSS salute: Madhya Pradesh
The opposition Congress and ruling BJP have been embroiled in a war of words ever since a picture surfaced showing two officials participating in a prayer during an RSS event on June 11
Plea in Kerala HC alleging illegal encroachment in temple by RSS
Mass drills and weaponry training conducted by Hindu outfits a grave concern
Hindu Janagaruti Samiti (HJS) & Karnataka links
A look at how and what the HJS (Hindu Janajagruti Samiti) activities in Karnataka have been in recent months
Its live-in and gay ties whip up cyclones like Biparjoy: HJS, Goa
From calling for an economic boycott of all Muslims, to demanding a film on Portuguese “atrocities” the HJS now, says that natural calamities like cyclone Biparjoy are caused by the “immorality” of live-in and gay couples
A ‘Garbh Sanskar’ event by the RSS “teaches” pregnant women birth ‘Sanskari’, ‘Deshbhakt’ Babies
Though occupying a constitutional post, even the Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan remained present at the event and said that pregnant women should chant 'Sunderkand', and read the 'Bhagavad Gita', 'Ramayana', and 'Mahabharata' to have mentally and physically sound babies.
13 of Rajasthan’s 33 districts host Trishul Diksha Samarohs, spawn hate against Christians, & Muslims
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In just five months since December 3, 2022, Rajasthan, a state going to polls end 2023, has been dotted with these military like events with the capital Jaipur hosting six; hate speeches galore at each event
Violence against Muslims reported in three states
The three isolated incidents involved an elderly man being targeted, a young man thrashed to death and a few young boys beaten up
Right wing groups train young boys and girls in using firearms
The number of these events have been on the rise in the last few months and it has become a matter of grave concern and fears of indoctrination at an early age stand justified
Trishul deeksha coupled with hate speech; Rajasthan tops the list again
In the month of May eight incidents of Trishul Deeksha were reported and 6 of these were from Rajasthan
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