Communalism

‘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

“There is no room for religious fundamentalism among us”

The 2018 Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial LectureWhen Murlidharji asked...

India Today exposes Sanatan Sanstha’s terrorist activities

  In a shocking expose, the India Today news channel...

Kashmir and the Imagination of the Hindu Rashtra

The Indian government under the Bharatiya Janata Party treats...

Varanasi’s citizens demand action against church attackers

A United front of Varanasi’s social groups has approached...

What to believe in: Words or deeds?

RSS Supremo’s Public relations Exercise  Do organisations say what they...

Communal Tension in Varanasi as Hindu Extremists allegedly attack Church

FB of Pravik Kumar DubeyTension mounted in the holy...

The BabriMasjid/Ayodhya Judgement of 2010 – Some questions for today

Babri Masjid before its demolition. It was still a...

This book on Gauri Lankesh shows the illiberal side of India

The author offers so many details that a reader...

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The bulldozer retreated, and the court offered temporary relief. But who gets to decide which ideas can occupy Bengal’s public spaces?

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Calcutta High Court says political dissent must not be stifled, directs police to protect CPI(M) bookstall near Durga Puja Pandal

Justice Saugata Bhattacharya stresses that democracy requires space for competing political ideologies, directing West Bengal Police to ensure the Left party can set up its traditional bookstall amid allegations of preferential treatment for the Hindu Jagran Manch.