Communalism

Economic Boycott as Hindu Solidarity: BJP leader Nitesh Rane calls for Muslims to be shut out

HARHAR campaign launch becomes a platform for religious segregation, with Rane urging Hindus to buy only from Hindus and issuing a chilling threat against Muslims attending the Kumbh Mela

2021: A year of unprecedented communal hate crimes

The sheer nature and number of incidents of communal hate crimes in 2021 are overwhelming and a reminder to authorities that it is high time to act against them

CJP files complaint against ‘Dharam Sansad’ before NCM

The complaint calls for strict action against all perpetrators, monitoring of police investigation as well as a separate inquiry

Haridwar hate offenders file police complaint against The Quran, Muslims, cop accepts it with a smile

Narsinganand assures group cops on "their side" as police officer happily receives complaint, poses for pictures

Civil society speaks up against ‘Dharam Sansad’; protests planned, police complaints filed

Feminist organisations in Mumbai are amongst those who have filed complaints at police stations against the contentious event and a protest has also been planned in Mumbai

CJP campaign against hate crimes grew stronger in 2021

CJP’s petitions led some authorities to initiate action, there’s a glimmer of hope in other cases

Poisoning people’s minds to ensure polarisation in the coming polls

With Uttar Pradesh going to poll soon, the ruling party wants to reignite its communal agenda

Alienation and apathy: Assam government’s 2021 agenda?

From a new cow protection law to eviction of minority communities, here are some of the Assam government’s most blatantly exclusionist policy decisions of 2021

Why does the PM look the other way when BJP leaders give communal speeches?

BJP politicians are in the limelight for spewing communal speeches that sound like right-(BJP)wing chants

Had a happy Christmas weekend? Have a look at how communal mobs celebrated theirs

Christians, and others, celebrating the festival of joy, including at schools, were targeted by right-wing groups across the country

Activists counter call for genocide with a call for secularity

Human rights activists and experts talk about the dangers of increasing hate-speech in India during a press conference organized today

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Within a month of youth-led protests in Delhi and at least half a dozen other locations, the Supreme Court’s September 1 Order invoked its extraordinary powers under Article 142 to quash criminal cases registered across at least five states. This examines the limitations of this ad hoc jurisprudence, arguing that while protection from abusive state prosecution is welcome, linking it to the cancellation of the September 5 march sets a troubling precedent. Constitutional scrutiny demanded a rigorous examination of alleged executive and police overreach, including blanket prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the BNSS and the shutdown of metro stations and internet services. Instead, the alleged excesses of Delhi and other police forces remain unadjudicated.

Need for Clarity on the SIR: An Open Letter to the Congress Leaders of Karnataka

While the national leadership of the party, leads and articulates the national campaign for the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, the state leadership of Karnataka, a state governed by the party, gives conflicting statements almost endorsing a process that has disenfranchised close to 10 million there

From Arunachal to Delhi, anti-dam protesters face state crackdown; detained allege sexual assault

Around 40 protesters from Arunachal Pradesh were detained during a solidarity demonstration, as the crackdown on indigenous resistance to the proposed mega dam intensifies

Beyond Appropriation: Vidya Bhushan Rawat’s recovery of Bose’s inclusive nationalism

Rawat’s book emerges from a unique perspective that argues –among other things – that Bose and Nehru must be understood through their competing strategies, and historical circumstances— not recruited retrospectively into opposing political camps; neither does the book place Bose beyond criticism, affirming however his intrinsic secular outlook while stressing on diverse networks that helped sustain the struggle for independence’ not a biography of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose but a chronicle of Indian National Army as well as India’s freedom Movement.

After 22 years under suspicion, Assam’s Kashem Ali declared Indian by Foreigners Tribunal

With 18 years passing between the registration of the case and service of notice, and nearly a year spent fighting to prove his citizenship, Kashem Ali finally wins legal relief with CJP’s assistance

From treating Adivasi communities to being branded an instigator: Odisha jails doctor Randall Sequeira

Arrested in a case in which his name did not figure in the original FIR, Dr Randall Sequeira faces serious criminal charges amid an intensifying crackdown on Adivasi communities resisting bauxite mining in Odisha