Hate & Harmony

From the violence of 2024 to the Bakri Eid tensions of 2026, a fact-finding report examines Mira Road’s deepening communal fault lines

A two-part fact-finding report examines how political competition, hate speech, state action and outside mobilisation have repeatedly transformed local disputes into communal flashpoints in Mira Road

CJP complaint to Aaj Tak for airing show using the term “Mazaar Jihad”

In the show, hosted by Sudhir Chaudhary, he encouraged people to look for shrines around them and report them to the police to verify if they are real or fake.

Haryana: More cow vigilantism incidents were reported in April, state district-level special committees fail to act

In all three incidents, the attacking mob has uploaded pictures of themselves with the truck

Oath for economic boycott of minorities administered in Chhattisgarh

People were also encouraged to display religious signs on their businesses so that it helps other Hindus to identify and only buy from Hindu businesses

Maharashtra: Hate Campaigns led by Raja Singh & Kalicharan continue to go unchecked

Nanded in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region witnesses one more hate event where a legislator, Raja Singh and controversial religious scion, Kalicharan gave overtly Islamophobic speeches, calling for violence and no FIRs are filed even as a Muslim individual is arrested for protesting the hate

Images in Contrast: Bloodied body of 38 year-old Idrees Pasha, a beaming Abdul Rashid

One bloodied, dead, the other stoic and smiling, two contrasting visuals of Muslims from Karnataka reflect a bitter reality

Two Muslim youth killed in Jharkhand, one by a cop, other by a mob

Wasim Sajjad was found tied to the back of a car by his father but the police claimed he was injured as he fell from the tractor while trying to escape the police as they chased him for smuggling sand.

Gujarat: Kajal Hindusthani arrested, sent to judicial custody, booked for delivering anti-Muslim hate speech

Hindusthani has been criss-crossing the country delivering doses of hate from Maharashtra to New Delhi; delivers speech asking Hindus to take up arms in New Delhi even after being first “booked” in Gujarat

Bajrang Dal convener mastermind of Bihar Sharif violence, say police

Bihar Ram Navami violence: Police officials have told the media that the plans to execute violence were executed via social media under Kundan Kumar's leadership. A WhatsApp group with as many as 457 people was formed ahead of the Ram Navami. This group was used to plot and execute the violence, the police said.

Echoes of Hate: Concern mounts as India grapples with hate speech

Hate speech has been reported from three states, and speeches continue with complete impunity. Newer faces emerge each time, continuing with the same diatrib

Muslims attacked while offering Namaz in Haryana

Some young Hindu boys entered the mosque and started assaulting people offering Namaz, including women and children, injuring 9 who had to be taken to the hospital.

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