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CJP’s 2025 Hate Watch: leading the fight for accountability in the digital media
In 2025, CJP emerged as India’s leading voice confronting digital hate on television, spearheading sustained NBDSA interventions that challenged communal broadcasts/debate, secured corrective orders, and strengthened accountability frameworks to restrain the spread of hateful and polarising content across news media
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The Politics of Memory: Controversy over graves of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhatt
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The bid to erase Muslim graves is political theatre, denying dignity in death and casting an entire community as the perpetual 'other'
How the Hindutva propaganda machine turns citizens into ‘infiltrators’
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Hate speech primes state machinery to criminalise citizens as outsiders and justify unlawful deportations.
Unifying cultural celebration weaponised: Ganesh processions turned into stages for hate speech & moral policing
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Ganesh Chaturthi, once a symbol of shared community celebration, was exploited this year by hard-line groups across India to amplify anti-Muslim and anti-Christian rhetoric, transforming a festival of harmony into a tool of exclusion
Indore’s Bazaar Purge: Muslim workers and shopkeepers forced out under BJP leader’s ultimatum
Over 50 workers and several shopkeepers’ face job loss in Sheetla Mata Bazaar as Eklavya Singh Gaud directs traders to remove Muslim employees, citing “love jihad”; police inaction fuels fears of targeted communal displacement
Rajasthan: Civil Society demands arrests, rule of law and end to minority targeting under anti-conversion law
Civil society leaders raise alarm over continued attacks on Christians in CM’s own constituency in Rajasthan after the passage of the Anti-Conversion Bill, demanding accountability, arrests of Bajrang Dal members, and protection for religious minorities
Imam refused to say ‘Jai Shri Ram’, assaulted in UP and told to ‘Go to Pakistan’, no FIR filed yet
Aligarh Imam Mustakeem was attacked by a group of youth who allegedly demanded he chant a Hindu slogan, after refusing, he says he was beaten for over an hour and told to leave the country, police deny any communal motive
Tilak, ID Checks & Religious Tests: what’s happening at Garba events?
As Navratri begins, joy meets judgment with Aadhaar checks, tilaks, and demands for Muslim entry bans, festival grounds are turning into sites of exclusion
Madhya Pradesh Muslim man lynched in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara over cattle transport; family alleges religious targeting & extortion plot
Family alleges hate crime and extortion as Bhilwara police probe mob attack; victim leaves behind wife and two young children
Banu Mushtaq Inaugurates Mysuru Dasara Amid Controversy: A triumph of secularism and Constitutional values
International Booker Prize-winning author Banu Mushtaq’s participation in the 415th Mysuru Dasara celebrations sparks political debate, but Karnataka government, judiciary, and public uphold the festival’s inclusive, secular ethos
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