Hate & Harmony

From caste to race: Reading ‘Black & Buddhist’ through an Indian lens

A few days ago, while visiting a local library in a relatively small town on the eastern coast of the United States, the person who took me there asked...

“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

A right half won, evolution of women’s right to property under the Hindu Succession Act

Despite several attempts in the previous century the real change came 50 years later, in 2005. However lack of implementation and societal patriarchy has still not meant that property rights have been realised by Indian Hindu women.

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

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The authors interrogate the manner and fashion of appointing faculty at IITs and other such institutions of “higher learning”

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