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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

No poppies for Sikh soldiers killed by their own people

At least 50 Sikh soldiers were murdered by the...

No terror funding in Haryana Mosque construction: Delhi Minorities Commission

A number of national, local daily newspapers, channels and...

No end to communal violence in Bihar: A report on Sitamarhi

Without communal polarization, anti-Muslim hate, and Hindu consolidation behind...

Allahabad HC asks UP govt to justify name change

The High Court has asked them to explain their...

Outcry after Toronto’s Consul General of India speaks at HSS event

Ambassador Dinesh Bhatia, Consul General of India in Toronto,...

34 years and counting: No justice for victims of 1984 Sikh genocide

For the last 34 years, Indian political outfits have...

How a Supremacist Govt Can Subvert the Constitution

Given the firm and secular orientation of the Indian...

Muslims flee UP village after police books 200 men under UAPA

The police have arrested 19 people from Khair and...

Opinion: Why is the world silent on the 1984 Sikh massacre?

The torture faced by Sikhs in 1984 finds no...

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