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‘Free the Temple’, ‘Protect the Faith’, ‘Take Up Weapons’: How September’s festivals became stages for anti-Muslim hate

From contested places of worship to demographic fearmongering, a series of speeches used Hindu religious identity to construct Muslims as an existential threat and recast exclusion as religious defence

The Communalisation Project: The Tamil Nadu story

Communalisation of a place is done with only one intention - to polarise people and to grab power through the democratic process of elections

MP: Goons harass hijabi students, demand saffron dress code

Members of Hindutva groups demand that an autonomous college ban hijabs but “allow Naga Babas to come as they are”

SC issues notice in Guj gov’t plea against HC stay on ‘anti-conversion law’

The HC had imposed stay on certain sections of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2021

Hate Watch: ‘India becoming Lebanon’ propaganda video aims to create panic and hate

A video, shot to look like a talk on history by an ‘expert’, but in fact is aimed at spreading panic and communal hate is now doing the rounds on whatsapp groups

UP CM Adityanath targeting minorities again?

On the day of the second phase of polling for Assembly elections, Adityanath uses terms like 'Ghazwa-e-Hind', 'religious fanatics' of 'Talibani thinking', claims BJP ‘winning’ UP Assembly elections 

Hate Speech: BJP MLA Raghvendra Pratap Singh targets Muslims in UP election meeting  

Singh told voters that if they elect him again, Muslims will stop wearing their skullcaps and start putting Hindu tilaks 

Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami’s UCC talk, a sign of pre-poll jitters?

Two days before polls, CM says if re-elected the BJP government will form a panel to prepare Uniform Civil Code draft

Stop infecting college campuses with the communal poison: Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD)

 More than 150 secular human rights activists strongly condemn the...

Are Christians being targetted in Uttar Pradesh with the blessings of the regime?

ADF records 102 instances in 2021; the report reveals shocking details of incidents where even the police allegedly played a role, often taking action against the victims!

UP can become Kashmir, Kerala, Bengal if you do not vote for BJP: CM Adityanath

The incumbent Chief Minister's controversial statement, singling out states withing the Indian union, virtually painting them as undesirable, came on the eve of Assembly elections 

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