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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
The contentious route, a common factor in inciting violence during religious processions in India
Institutional amnesia chronically ails the state police! Myriad commissions of inquiry including the seminal Justice DP Madon Commission of Inquiry into the Bhiwandi-Mahad-Jalgaon Riots in 1970 have abjured the police from allowing indiscriminate passage to religious processions; the recommendations of these commissions and the law of the land are however not followed by the police controlled as its actions are by the executive
Exaggerated or ominous, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) claims it has plans for 1500-2000 rallies during Ram Navami in Bengal
These claims have been published in two newspaper reports, one a daily Bartaman, the other Jugoshonkho that has a partiality for the rightwing BJP; two online posters “announce” these rallies previously not a cultural presence in Bengal
Ram Navami: West Bengal administration on alert as 2000 celebrations planned
Celebrations at such a large scale uncommon in the state
Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker
It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.
Caution to the wind: Maha Police intimated to be vigilant of HJS Gudi Padwa events
CJP wrote the Sangli and Pune Police authorities to be wary of the ‘Gudi pujan’’ events organised by HJS in multiple locations, as HJS has a controversial history disturbing communal peace
Aurangabad badgered with hate speeches, vandalism and destroying of public property followed in protest supporting name change of Aurangabad
Free hand given to hate mongers, as 7 FIRs filed for rioting and damage to public property, but no arrest of T. Raja, Suresh Chavhanke
Rising Instances of Hate-speech, Hate Crimes in Rajasthan condemned: PWA, Delhi
In a strongly worded resolution passed at the two day conference at Macchadi, Alwar the Delhi Unit of the Progressive Writers Association has urged the Rajasthan govt to prosecute and prevent trishul distribution rallies and calls for violence against minorities that are likely to increase as state assembly elections draw near
‘Old Wine in New bottle’: Bhagwat on Caste
“I (god) am in all beings. Whatever be the...
VHP functionary held in bid to extort money from priest after concocting false allegations
This is yet another example of a strong network of vigilantes that uses extortion to pressurize the Christian clergy. According to The Hindu, police have arrested Muthuvel, 40, district secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on the charge of demanding money from a parish priest in the Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu.
A roundup of the CJP’s efforts to curb hate speeches by Hindu Janajagruiti Samaj, from filing preemptive complaints to following up with officers
Complaints fall on deaf ears as, despite the SC guidelines, hate speech continues unabated, blatant inaction by the police
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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
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