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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

Silence Does Not Help Secularism

9m (5.40 p.m. Tuesday May 14, 2019)Teesta Setalvad's Tweet...

Mosques and shops vandalized as Anti-Muslim violence rises in Sri Lanka

This is the worst outbreak of violence since the...

Pragya Thakur’s Curse: “Maine kaha tera (Hemant Karkare) sarvanash hoga.”

“In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no...

The Zionist Idea has Never been more Terrifying than it is Today

On this seventy-first annual commemoration of Palestine’s Jewish-state Nakba,...

SC extends Ayodhya Mediation Deadline to August 15

The Supreme Court has granted an extension to the...

BJP has no moral right to rake up 1984 for political gains

The BJP backers who continue to pretend as well...

Hindu Vigilantes Push Rajasthan’s Cow Trade Into Decline

New Delhi: The cow trade at a leading cattle...

SIT finds Blast Accused conducted Bomb Training for Right Wing Supremacists

In shocking developments, the Karnataka Special Investigation Team (SIT)...

Religious Indoctrination Through Midday Meals

The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF),  a sister concern of...

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