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Days of Demands, Hours of Protest: Swatantra Bhardwaj finally detained in assault case

Delhi Police detain the influencer hours after CJP, Nishu Azad, Congress representatives and opposition MPs press for his arrest at Parliament Street; the case began at a CJP and wider student protest at Jantar Mantar

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’

Cow vigilantism is an extortion bid say Haryana farmers

A farmers group in Hisar has alleged that cow vigilantes have asked for protection money from them

Real History: Gandhi’s Murder, Godse & the RSS

Recently, (April 2023), the NCERT decided to make many...

Did the RSS want Partition? An interview with Dr DR Goyal for Communalism Combat, October 1994

In this interview for Communalism Combat, 29 years ago, Dr DR Goyal, a member of the organization in his youth explains why he left and how poisonous RSS propaganda accelerated the movement for Pakistan

Eid Mubarak: Mussalmans & a United Nation- India

First published on: 11 Nov 2016The Musalmans and a United...

Hindu Mahasabha Members Arrested for Allegedly Slaughtering Cow to Incite Communal Violence in Agra During Ram Navami Parade

According to the police, Sanjay Jat, the Hindu Mahasabha's national spokesperson, is the chief conspirator.

“Protect religion, women and cows,” right wing groups tell the youth, hands them Trishuls

In over 15 Trishul Deeksha (distribution) events across northern India, VHP and Bajrang Dal have given trishuls to thousand of young Hindu men and brainwashed them to use trishuls to protect Hindu religion

Karnataka’s Shame: Cattle trader, a Muslim, beaten to death by cow vigilantes

NDTV and Telegraph both reported how 38 year old, Idrees Pasha’s body was found by the roadside at Sathnur village in Ramanagara district of Karnataka not far from Bengaluru; Puneet Kerehalli, leader of a so-called 'cow protection force', is on the run

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

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