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Between Celebration and Suspicion: How Bakri Eid passed across india in 2026

With police deployments, cattle regulations, housing society disputes and political mobilisation surrounding Eid-ul-Adha, the festival reflected the tensions of contemporary India

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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Between Celebration and Suspicion: How Bakri Eid passed across india in 2026

With police deployments, cattle regulations, housing society disputes and political mobilisation surrounding Eid-ul-Adha, the festival reflected the tensions of contemporary India

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