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Police, Bajrang Dal and the Making of Anti-‘Love Jihad’ Squad in Madhya Pradesh
A Bhopal gym turns into a flashpoint as cops and Hindutva groups push communal claims, banning Muslims, in the name of ‘love jihad’.
Mob shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram, forcibly enters heritage madrasa on Dussehra, performs puja: Karnataka
A mob, unruly and potentially threatening, participating in a...
Raavan Islamised! Purging the complex Ramayan text evident in attacks by far right on Adipurush
AK Ramanujan’s, Three Hundred Ramayans, extracted from The Collected Essays by the author and published in Communalism Combat in May 2008 (Year 14, No 131) actually told the epic’s spectacular and varied journey through the ages
Uttar Pradesh: Jagran singer asks people to stock up on machetes to fight for Hindu Rashtra
Dharmendra Pandey, while performing at an event in Itwa, Siddharthnagar, also urged women to sharpen their tongs
When Navratri’s joyous Garba dance becomes a garb for exclusion: Gujarat, MP
The extra constitutional moral policing by outfits like the Bajrang Dal(BD) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) all affiliates of the omnipresent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) introduce violence and exclusion in the 9-day festival of dance
Mohan Bhagwat and Indian Muslims
The Silence of the Mountain and the expectations of Muhammad
Police walk with sword-wielding right-wing members at rally: Karnataka
Ministers and officials remained evasive with the media on this questionable conduct
Gandhi as “evil” (Mahiasura) is a time-tested narrative for all hues of Hindu communalists
The latest depiction of Mahatma Gandhi as ‘Mahiasura’ at the All India’s Hindu Mahasaha’s puja pandal in Kolkatta is a time-tested narrative of Hindu communalists who, as Teesta Setalvad has writen, regurgitate this narrative portraying Gandhi as different forms of “evil”
Krishna Janmabhoomi: Hindu Mahasabha moves court for survey of Meena Masjid
The mosque stands next to the Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura; next date of hearing is October 26
Gyanvapi case: Rift widens between Shringar Gauri plaintiffs
Court reserves order on conducting carbon dating test
Headmaster heckled for holding essay competition on Prophet Mohammed: Karnataka
A group of men, identifying themselves as ‘right-wing’ activists, entered a government school in Karnataka and heckled the school headmaster for holding an essay competition in school.
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