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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

Sheikh Hasina’s ‘Strategic Compromise’ With Hefazat-e-Islam Turning Bangladesh Into An Extremist Hotbed Once Again

The Hefazat has been blackmailing the Hasina government into accepting its demands and its leader Junaid Babunagri has been issuing Taliban like diktats to the government.

It’s a sweet love story, but UP govt’ sees jihad phantom

After the love marriage ceremony was stopped in UP, the brave groom steps to say ‘no talk of conversion… love enough’

Will BJP succeed in diluting politics from Red to Saffron in Kerala?

The Left-government state has so far kept Hindutva politics out of power, hence the BJP offer of ‘pol power’ to hundreds of Christian and Muslim candidates

Lucknow police stop interfaith wedding citing conversion laws!

Days after the UP’s Unlawful Religious Conversion Prohibition Ordinance is passed, right-wing elements begin using the law to prevent peaceful weddings.

First arrest under anti Love Jihad law in UP 

The 21-year-old accused has been booked for trying to forcefully convert a Hindu girl under the UP law and criminal intimidation under the IPC

Identity of the ‘Ordinary Indian’

Who is that silent yet preponderant Indian? Does he have no social character and ideological moorings?

Love Jihad: Karnataka legislature vs. judiciary 

As the state assembly is considering implementing law against ‘love jihad’, the court has upheld right of an adult to marry irrespective of religion

UP: ‘Love Jihad’ law catches pace, 2 cases registered in Bareilly

Within 2 days of the ordinance being promulgated, 2 cases have already been registered under the controversial anti-liberty law

UP Governor gives assent to anti-Love Jihad ordinance

The draft ordinance approved by the UP Cabinet on November 24, makes unlawful conversions a non-bailable offence

Law against ‘Love Jihad’ or controlling our ‘individuality’

Crossing religion and caste barriers is a form of dissent

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Bombay High Court orders Maharashtra DGP to review arrest forms, flags failure to communicate grounds of arrest

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