Hate & Harmony

CJP’s 2025 Hate Watch: leading the fight for accountability in the digital media

In 2025, CJP emerged as India’s leading voice confronting digital hate on television, spearheading sustained NBDSA interventions that challenged communal broadcasts/debate, secured corrective orders, and strengthened accountability frameworks to restrain the spread of hateful and polarising content across news media

Communal statements by Muslim Maulanas come to the rescue of Modi & Mohan Bhagwat

It’s clearly not a coincidence that at the recent...

Are both state and non-state actors to be blamed for this attack on religious places of the Muslim community?

From hate speech to physical acts of violence, from UP to MP, instances of hate crimes by Hindutva outfits are being reported

IITs unable to create safe spaces for students

After two incidents of student deaths allegedly by suicide at two IITs have come to light, the question has once again arisen over what these institutes have done for the mental well being of its students

Love in times of Bhagwa: Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena causes disruptions in many parts of the country, harass couples on Valentine’s Day

From forcing them to run, assaulting them, and even making them tie rakhi to each other, self-appointed guardians of “Hindu culture” cause havoc

A New Shudra Movement Arrives in North India

We must redefine the Shudra category as a dignified, productive force with a role in the political, social, economic and educational fields.

Chhattisgarh: Sahu Samaj leader calls for mass violence against Muslims

He said there is no space for Muslims in this country where we worship god and goddesses

Scapegoats and Holy Cows: Crime and Justice Delivery in the Age of Sectarian Nationalism

Representation ImageIn the case of Jamia violence of 2019,...

Hatebuster: Is it Love Jihad or just love?

Despite what right wing goons will have you believe with their saffron teekas, sticks and threatening looks, the Constitution only encourages you to love more and love everyone

Madhya Pradesh: Church Defiled by miscreants, ‘Ram’ written on walls

According to reports, the vandals allegedly set fire to holy literature stored inside the church

Tamil Nadu: Dalit family in Thoothukudi allegedly denied use of road to crematorium

Locals claim that the discriminatory act of restricting access to public roads for Dalit funerals has been going on for decades

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CJP’s 2025 Hate Watch: leading the fight for accountability in the digital media

In 2025, CJP emerged as India’s leading voice confronting digital hate on television, spearheading sustained NBDSA interventions that challenged communal broadcasts/debate, secured corrective orders, and strengthened accountability frameworks to restrain the spread of hateful and polarising content across news media

The Double Stage: Caste’s Schizophrenic Modernity between Spectacle and Shadow

Caste from the pre-modern, colonial to the post-Republican; this analysis draws from, among others, works by Nicholas Dirks (2001), Anand Teltumbde (2014) and Gopal Guru (2016) to map this transition showing that contemporary caste should be best understood as a sort of social schizophrenia driven by imaginative acts whereby power perpetuates itself through a convoluted hermetic legitimising act in India.

UGC Guidelines 2026: AISA Protest at Delhi University followed by sexual abuse allegations amid police presence

Delhi university has seen persistent protest by Ambedkarite and left groups demanding implementation of the UGC Guidelines 2026 that were summarily stayed by the Supreme Court; in one such, a confrontation during a mobilisation over UGC equity regulations, AISA women leaders were subject to brute and allegedly sexualised threats, while a right-wing YouTuber filed a separate assault complaint; police have registered parallel FIRs

12 Bengali migrant workers murdered in 6 states, Maharashtra tops the crime list

Following the recently unleashed hysteria on the misnomer “Bangladeshi immigrants”, spearheaded by BJP elected officials from the Centre to States, as many as 12 Bengali migrant workers have been murdered, revealing the physical targeted harm that can flow out of systemic hate speech made by those in public authority; these are statistics compiled by the West Bengal Migrants Welfare Board; 4 of the 12 killed have been in “progressive” Maharashtra and 10 in states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Against the Script of Hate: How ordinary citizens are reclaiming public space

A shop sign in Kotdwar, a shutter kept open in Nainital, a landlord’s refusal in Purola, and a Valentine’s Day standoff in Jaipur — how everyday acts of defiance are reshaping the narrative of communal tension in India

‘Democracies Erode When Those Entrusted With Power Fear Laughter and Start Taking Action Against It’

The Wire's submission to the government at the post-facto hearing on a request to block social media URLs over a 52-second satirical video.

2025 in Protest: Across issues, across India

In 2025, citizens nationwide mobilised across labour, environment, religious freedom, and electoral integrity