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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
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UP Police arrest Odisha man for sedition after VHP member alleges threatening calls
Initially only a case of criminal intimidation was made but further investigation allegedly revealed, his social media posts had derogatory remarks against the PM
‘Delhi Police Has No Evidence So It’s Resorting to Fabricated Statements’: Umar Khalid
Here is the full text of the activist's letter to the Commissioner of Police, Delhi alleging acquaintances are being coerced into making statements implicating Khalid.
Local court drops Modi’s name from three Guj riots civil suits
Case related to killing of three British nationals in Pranjit taluka of Sabarkantha district
Why did Monika Arora keep quiet about “stolen property” till now?
Riot book authors met Delhi Police Commissioner, to complain against Prof Sundar, Bloomsbury, other writers and activists
Facebook takes down T. Raja Singh’s account
Singh, a repeat hate-offender, had made multiple statements against Muslims, particularly those from Kashmir and also allegedly from Bangladesh.
Stop coercing ‘confessional’ statements to manufacture evidence in Delhi Violence cases!
Eminent citizens raise objections to riots’ probe, ask Delhi Police to stop falsely implicating people, and wrongly invoking UAPA to fuel theories of anti-state ‘conspiracy’
Riot book authors meet Delhi Police Commissioner, file complaint against Bloomsbury and others
Authors’ allegations include cheating, breach of trust etc against the publishers, as well as activists, writers and journalists
Facebook and Delhi Violence: State Assembly committee receives further evidence of culpability
Committee of Peace and Harmony to summon Facebook officials in the next meeting following mounting evidence by independent journalists of the company’s involvement in Delhi riots.
Remembering Kandhamal
After travelling to Gujarat following the pogrom of 2002, I began inquiring into Hindu nationalist mobilisations in Odisha
Progressive Students’ Forum raises concern over TISS registrar’s ‘communal’ social media posts
After students write open letter expressing concerns over registrar’s alleged communal tweets, he deletes account
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