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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

DGPs reports flag radical Hindu and Islamist outfits as issues in law and order

The reports which were available on the conference website until January 25, have now been taken down

SRK’s ‘Pathaan’ survives the RW hate wave with massive box office opening

Pathaan is known to have surpassed ‘KGF 2’ in its advance booking numbers and the movie has gotten rave reviews for its action-packed content and impressive dialogue

Chhattisgarh: 1,100 Christians converted to Hinduism in “ghar wapsi” ceremony, by BJP Sec

The Chhattisgarh state secretary is known to conduct such ‘homecoming’ ceremonies across the state

NBDSA: Complaint filed against Times Now’s inciteful ‘Ram mandir’ show

The debate show saw four speakers of extremist views denigrating each other’s religions over and over again, resulting in a scuffle

21 years later, 14 acquitted for murder in one of the many 2002 Gujarat riots cases

They were accused of killing and burning bodies of 17 Muslims in one of the many incidents of widespread violence in Gujarat in 2002, in the aftermath of the burning of a coach of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra

Ban caste discrimination: Ambedkar Intl Center to Seattle City Council

The AIC has worked closely with council member Kshama Sawant, the Coalition of Seattle Indian-Americans (CSAI), Equality Labs, and the Ambedkar Association of North America (AANA) to help draft this proposed ordinance.

Hundreds can be seen repeating the communal and anti-Muslim oath administered by Pravin Togadia

Once again, the AHP leader called for a population control law, a uniform civil code, and a love-jihad law

Marching through a Muslim dominated area, a mob raises provocative and communal slogans

Halting outside a mosque, the mob chanted: Say Vande Mataram if you have to live in India

Bajrang Dal barges into a birthday celebration, thrashes Muslim friends, hands them over to police

The incident took place on January 21 when the woman was celebrating her birthday in an apartment.

Dalit boy found hanging from tree in Uttar Pradesh village

According to the boy's family, Gurjeet, the victim, was playing in the farm near the disputed part of the land when the accused men caught the boy, strangled him to death and tied him to a tree.

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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