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Shadows on Karnataka’s Coast: Report provides the communal flashpoints that defined the region in 2024
Documenting the rise of communal incidents in Karnataka's coastal districts, a report compiled by Suresh Bhat B. highlights incidents and patterns of hate speech, vigilantism, and moral policing in 2024
IPTA cancels theatre-event following opposition from Bajrang Dal
Members of the extremist group opposed two plays to be enacted in the event despite never having watched them; IPTA claims police ignored pleas for help
India needs a Battle for Love, a Satya Shodhak Resistance against RSS: Arundhati Roy
The battle of Love against Hate. A battle for Love. It must be militantly waged and beautifully won.
Have planted Godse on every street: Hindutva activist’s online threats
Hindutva activists are celebrating “Gandhi Vadh Divas”, threatening to kill any individual who follows the Gandhian principles
The identity of assassins of Mahatma Gandhi as disclosed by Sardar Patel
Let us compare the RSS claim of innocence in Gandhiji's assassination with the views of the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel on the perpetrators of this crime.
Patriotism, Religion and RSS Ideology
In Independent India people of all religions have contributed with equal zeal in the making of modern India, in all the fields of industry, education, sports, culture and what have you. Are they not patriots or nationalists?
I’m also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew: Gandhi’s memo to Mohan Bhagwat
The RSS chief selectively quoted and ‘interpreted’ Gandhi to ‘prove’ his own take that Hindus are ‘automatic patriots’
RSS worker confesses he spread anti-farmer-protests content at Singhu border
Caught by farmers near Delhi border, the worker confessed that he was told to discourage people from the protest by an RSS leader
On 72nd anniversary of the Indian Constitution
RSS mourned when Indian Constituent Assembly passed the democratic Constitution
Hindu Army members arrested for launching ‘Krishna Janmabhoomi’ movement
22 men arrested in Mathura; group has a longstanding demand to remove Shahi Idgah from next to a Krishna temple
HJS dubs Narendra Dabholkar ‘Urban Naxal’
Is this a nefarious ploy by right-wing extremists to delegitimise the work of the slain anti-superstition activist, and other rationalists and dissenters?
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Shadows on Karnataka’s Coast: Report provides the communal flashpoints that defined the region in 2024
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