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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.
Actor Chetan’s Second Arrest: First as Warning, Second as Strategy?
UPDATE March 24, 2023: Chetan Kumar gets a bailActor and...
Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker
It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.
Freedom from Communalism & Religious Intolerance was Bhagat Singh’s Ideal, Never Hindu Rashtra
Hindu Communalists have forever sought to appropriate the young and fiery martyr in Goebbellsian ways perpetuating lies and falsehoods that include falsely promoting February 14 (Valentine’s Day) as his Death Anniversary rather than March 23, when he was actually hanged
Five states report incidents of violence and intimidation against Christians between March 20 and 22
From stopping the burial of an elderly woman to driving out Christians from the village, locals influenced by extremist outfits target Christians
Caution to the wind: Maha Police intimated to be vigilant of HJS Gudi Padwa events
CJP wrote the Sangli and Pune Police authorities to be wary of the ‘Gudi pujan’’ events organised by HJS in multiple locations, as HJS has a controversial history disturbing communal peace
Dalit student bruised and beaten for drinking water from bucket in school: UP
On the day that 96 years ago, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar tried to establish and proclaim the norms of equality breaking the taboo of Dalits’ right to drinking water; in UP today, the Bundelkhand Dalit Adhikar Manch has reported the violent assault on a young Ankush simply because he drank water for a common bucket in the schoolmon March 18, as reported by Mooknayak
Right to Same Sex Marriages is not a right that can be claimed: Union to SC
The obdurate rejection of this right by the union of India throttles the very concept of constitutional morality in evolving jurisprudence
Now Kadi, north Gujarat sees hate speech by Vishwa Hindu Parishad, this time against Christians
A video that has gone viral on social media since Sunday night makes abusive statements against Christian nuns and the Pope, Christians have filed a complaint
What is the real intent of the extremists launching this aggressive “love jihad” campaign
While the overt fault lines are communal, with the Hindu-Muslim binary feeding base level social and political prejudices, increasingly evident is the real intent/motive behind this assault; it is Autonomy and freedom of choice, for women
Aurangabad badgered with hate speeches, vandalism and destroying of public property followed in protest supporting name change of Aurangabad
Free hand given to hate mongers, as 7 FIRs filed for rioting and damage to public property, but no arrest of T. Raja, Suresh Chavhanke
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