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Hindutva’s Rajasthan Project: Brahmin-Bania Power, not just Muslim baiting
The RSS’ and Hindutva’s strategy in Rajasthan has systematically pushed the dominance of a Brahmin–Bania synergy that shrewdly ensures that while Muslims are scapegoated, Rajputs are historically and politically side-lined and the real beneficiaries are the Brahmin-Bania elites who monopolise both state power and wealth.
Mudumalai Tiger Reserve: Adivasis Cheated out of Forest Land, Compensation
The poorly executed relocation process has led to displacement and exploitation of tribals in the Nilgiris; the Moundadan Chettys fear they are next.
Arms training allegedly conducted by Bajrang Dal in Mount Abu
Last year as well similar arms training allegedly held by Bajrang Dal in Karnataka and some BJP MLAs and right wing workers were booked for it
All religions gather for peace march in Malad-Malwani in Mumbai
During a Ram Navami procession, some stone pelting was reported from this area in Mumbai and to counter that, people from all religious communities gathered
Mathura: Stones thrown at the Ambedkar Jayanti procession leaves several people injured
Tension prevailed due to stone pelting on the Shobha Yatra, police deployed in the area
Hindu “monks” give calls for Hindu Rashtra at an Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha event: New Delhi
Demands were made to lay the groundwork for officially declaring India as a Hindu nation
Safai Shramik Union raises demands for a law that safeguards rights of sanitation workers: Maharashtra
In the letter addressed to the MLA, the union has highlighted the difficulties faced by the sanitation workers as well as the lack of government facilities guaranteed to them
Anti-Dalit violence all pervasive even in April 2023, #DalitHistory month
More incidents of caste-based atrocities reported across states serving as a bitter reminder that the road to equality and a casteless society is hard
‘Rationalisation’ of Text books or Communalisation of the Polity?
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A Malyalee festival that is not about killing, one that connects us to the earth: Vishu
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Red for blood, love and Ramzan
The author, an activist and lawyer recounts her personal experience of shared pain among Hindus and Muslims, even as Gujarat and India are now coloured with the poison of hate
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