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When History substitutes Governance: Hindutva’s Politics of Manufacturing Pasts
Inventing kings, rebranding dynasties, and fabricating history to mask policy failure and engineer caste-communal politics
Hindutva’s “rice-bag” controversy
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Hindutva hardliners have been consistently urging over the years that Dalits who have converted to Christianity did so after being incentivised by monetary gains. Is this really the case?
Gujarat: Epicenter of targeted violence against minorities, says report that has compiled 55 attacks
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Attempts to give communal turn to blasts in Kerala unsuccessful, 3 cases filed by Kerala Police, CM Vijayan urges restraint & unity
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Bihar: Clash between two Durga immersion groups, chaotic mobs vandalise and loot neighbouring Muslim-owned shops
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Muslims, victims of targeted violence in Pusesavali, Satara: Fact-finding report
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UP: Muslim man dies after he was beaten by a mob following a bike accident
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Anatomy of Violence in the Hitherto peaceful Nuh
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Jaunpur UP: Jeevan Jyoti Church demolished citing “illegal construction on government land”
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Hate Speeches on the rise in UP and Uttarakhand
From the CM to small events by the VHP and Bajrang Dal, the Sangh Parivar's nexus that is polarising India through hate speech continues its venomous assault against the nation's social fabric.
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