Hate & Harmony

A village panchayat in Rajasthan's Jalore district has prohibited daughters-in-law and young women from 15 villages from using phones with cameras starting January 26 which is also India’s Republic Day, the day the Indian Constitution came into force. Instead, they will only be allowed to use keypad phones instead of smartphones; explaining the rationale, Sujanaram Chaudhary said the community believes that excessive smartphone use by women leads to prolonged screen exposure for children living with them

Once again, Christians are under brute and specific attack on the eve of the Christmas season

Incidents recorded between September and November 2025 point to a recurring pattern of assaults, intimidation, identity policing, religious disruption and state action affecting Muslim and Christian communities across multiple states

John Brittas, CPI-M Member of Parliament (MP) in the Rajya Sabha has strongly protested RSS/BJP move to impose an ‘ideologically affiliated song during Christmas celebrations’; he has made the letter to the Union Minister, J, Scindia, public in social media

Outrage widens after CM Nitish Kumar pulls down Muslim woman doctor’s hijab at appointment ceremony; FIRs filed, media barred, national leaders condemn act

From September 2025, three months ago, the Allahabad High Court has registered a suo-moto Public Interest Litigation (PIL) regarding the issue of delay at different levels in taking appropriate steps while dealing with cases of termination of pregnancy of rape survivors

From district collectorates to Assembly sessions, a coordinated campaign built on ‘love jihad’ conspiracies seek to import a legally contested, constitutionally suspect regime into Maharashtra

Despite the Union government’s tardy approach since the passage of the historic Forest Rights Act in 2006, states such as Jammu and Kashmir are now taking the lead in securing indigenous land rights. Groups including the Wullar Bachav Front and the All India Union of Forest Working Peoples (AIUWFP) have been engaging with the state administration on the issue

A week after being brutally attacked in Nawada, Mohammad Athar Hussain succumbed to his injuries, leaving behind unanswered questions on accountability, identity-based violence, and justice

Ayesha or Samreen, Maharashtra’s Muslim women widows of hate crimes live abandoned by family and society, haunted by questions to which neither state nor society provides healing or answers