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

‘Trishul Diksha’ in poll bound Rajasthan, a matter of grave concern

Distributing trishuls that are actually daggers, has been the strategy of right wing groups to spread their ideology of ‘Hindu Rashtra’ and to use these weapons to ‘protect Hindu religion’

Adivasis of Burhanpur rejoice as all demands get fulfilled, verification of claims for the entire district

Adivasis had been protesting outside the SDM office for two days demanding concrete steps towards implementation of FRA

Seattle introduces anti-discrimination legislation

The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), today commended the Seattle City Council for introducing a law banning caste discrimination.

Concerns raised over Sakal Hindu Samaj proposed event in Baramati

CJP has written to Maharashtra Police seeking preventive action the February 9 event and rally where Kalicharan Maharaj and Shankar Gaikar are invited as speakers

Support pours in for hate monger Suresh Chavhanke, calls for violence against Muslims made

Jantar Mantar, an iconic protest site becomes a hub for hate speech as extremist Hindutva leaders challenge the Supreme Court’s recent directives, warn of ‘bloodshed and sacrifices’ if RSS’ Sudarshan TV chief, Chavhanke arrested

Bangladesh: Unidentified persons vandalize 12 temples

The Hindu community maintains that no such attack has ever taken place in the region

‘Ban FGM’: Rival Syedna writes to PM

The rival religious head of the Dawoodi Bohras seeks to make a distinction between female genital mutilation and 'khafz' but gender justice activists including those within the communty challenge this claim

Should repeat hate speeches (Suresh Chavhanke, Nagar, Maharashtra) not be prosecuted?

CJP has filed a complaint urging action against Chavhanke; he had attacked the Muslim Community, encouraged audience to defy SC orders for peace and restraint

Protest against ‘Halal Certificate’ in Dhanbad latest in an effort to create another stigma & bogey

Far right Hindu Janjagruti Samiti is now leading a nationwide campaign against so called ‘Halal Jihad’

Minister inquires about implementation of FRA in states, MoTA dodges any accountability

Data detailing the state-wise number of claims settled and titles distributed till November 30, 2022 provided by the government

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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

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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

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

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