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Between Celebration and Suspicion: How Bakri Eid passed across india in 2026
With police deployments, cattle regulations, housing society disputes and political mobilisation surrounding Eid-ul-Adha, the festival reflected the tensions of contemporary India
Majoritarian Politics via Ram Navami Processions and Opportunist Muslim Elites
One can clearly see that there is quite a...
“Protect religion, women and cows,” right wing groups tell the youth, hands them Trishuls
In over 15 Trishul Deeksha (distribution) events across northern India, VHP and Bajrang Dal have given trishuls to thousand of young Hindu men and brainwashed them to use trishuls to protect Hindu religion
Maliana acquittals 36 years after 72 Muslims massacred in cold blood, abysmal failure of justice, substantive & procedural
The acquittals took place despite directions by the High Court being seized of the matter since 2021 where the issue raised is of crucial documents including the FIR and other evidence had “gone missing”, of strict and fair procedures that need to be followed; this 2021 legal intervention by a journalist Qurban Ali, who covered the cold blooded massacre in 1987 and Vibhuti Narain Rai, an IPS officer who, as SP Ghaziabad had filed the FIR in the Hashimpura carnage the day before, in the High Court will now be heard with the judgement of acquittal being passed without completion of trial procedure
‘Books now, humans later’: An ominous warning for the nation
The burning of 4500 books at Madarsah Azizia in Bihar Sharif marks a new low for Ram Navami violence
Hindutva mobs in Bihar run amok, cause loss of Rs. 6 crores
A report by Maktoob Media has alleged that the violence and destruction of property by the mobs incurred loss of crores to the Muslim population as their shops and properties were attacked.
Ram Navami violence by Aaj Tak calls into question the lopsided portrayal of communally sensitive news
Even as violent incidents occurred in many Indian states, mainstream media conveniently presented a one-sided narrative
Maharashtra interfaith committee to submit report by end April
State Minister, Mangal Prabhat Lodha also spoke on the ‘Bhaichara committees’ at police stations which need to meet frequently to quell communal tensions
21 years down, ‘Lack of Evidence’, says Gujarat Court and Acquits 27 Accused of Gang Rape, Murder During 2002 Violence
The court in Panchmahal district said that the 190...
Karnataka’s Shame: Cattle trader, a Muslim, beaten to death by cow vigilantes
NDTV and Telegraph both reported how 38 year old, Idrees Pasha’s body was found by the roadside at Sathnur village in Ramanagara district of Karnataka not far from Bengaluru; Puneet Kerehalli, leader of a so-called 'cow protection force', is on the run
The contentious route, a common factor in inciting violence during religious processions in India
Institutional amnesia chronically ails the state police! Myriad commissions of inquiry including the seminal Justice DP Madon Commission of Inquiry into the Bhiwandi-Mahad-Jalgaon Riots in 1970 have abjured the police from allowing indiscriminate passage to religious processions; the recommendations of these commissions and the law of the land are however not followed by the police controlled as its actions are by the executive
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Between Celebration and Suspicion: How Bakri Eid passed across india in 2026
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