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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

Why the K’taka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Act, 2020 must be repealed: Idrees Pasha murder

This law, like similar laws in several north Indian states like Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat not only prohibit the slaughter of cattle but also their transportation and as has been closely analysed in the Idrees Pasha lynch-murder case, weaponises vigilantes and a complicit police to violence, even murder

Lord Rama Anantatma & Anantaroopa: He who is the Infinite Soul & who has infinite forms

This article is a letter, the fourth of a series, addressed to Lord Rama. The author engages in a conversation with the Lord, discussing His infinite essence and what it means to the author to embrace the diversity of His stories and worshipping traditions.

Rising anti-Muslim fury in Rajasthan: Haj pilgrims attacked, Hindutva outfits urge women to use firearms

Six have been booked for attacking a bus carrying Haj pilgrims from Kota to Jaipur with stones under influence of alcohol

Idrees Pasha Lynching in Sathanuru, Karnataka: Lapses in prevention of crime, nabbing accused, weak investigation

The brutal killing on the night of March 31 was preceded by inept prevention by local police, subsequent to the killing attackers were not apprehended even though police personnel witnessed assault and saw accused including Puneeth Kerejhalli using social media to broadcast the crimes; overall investigations faulty and weak, says the Fact Finding Report into the Murder of Idrees Pasha in Sathanuru, Ramnagar, Karnataka. The family was not even provided a copy of the post mortem report

Left parties, Muslim community submit a memorandum to BJP government: Shevgaon, Ahmednagar

When Ahmednagar’s guardian Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil and MLA Monica Rajle visited Shevgaon last week, CPI's state secretary and Subhash Patil Lande submitted a memorandum to them and said that the riots in Shevgaon happened to serve political interests and the deliberate inaction by the local police

Hindu temple faces backlash for demanding removal of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s picture from dance institute’s program

After this decision backfires, an apology was issued, the chief of the temple authorities said it was a “wrong guess” on their part

Political Power & narrow vision demonising Muslims, destroying harmony & defaming Varkari tradition says Sant Suhas Maharaj Phadtare: Trimbakeshwar row

The dhoop arti tradition at the Trimbakeshwar mandir is being demonised by narrow vested political interests, a cruel Brahminical tradition that cannot tolerate social harmony and syncretic culture says the renowned Varkari saint-philosopher from Satara, Suhas Maharasj Phadtare

Another hate speech delivered demanding to change names of Babur and Humayun road in Delhi

Chavhanke engages in hate speech just a few day days before the inauguration of new Parliament House, causes disharmony

Tushar Bhosale aggressive face of Trimbakeshwar conflict, convener of BJP “spiritual wing”

Bhosale, responsible for the spread of one-sided information is at the forefront of the Adivasi-Brahmin controversy and is vehemently supporting a section of the Brahmin trustees, refuting claims that there was any such tradition of Muslim coming to the steps of the temple to pay respects

T. Raja Singh, a BJP MLA with a history of communal speeches, delivers another anti-Muslim speech

During his speech in Kota, Singh did not even leave Maharana Pratap's history alone, instead using it to justify violence.

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