Hate & Harmony

The Double Stage on Campus: Caste, crisis & UGC equity regulations (2026) controversy

This paper applies the theoretical concepts of the “scene” and the “obscene,” developed in my earlier work on caste and “schizophrenic modernity”, to analyse the dispute over the University...

Kashmiri Pandit organisation files curative petition in SC

Roots in Kashmir seeks probe into the killings of Kashmiri Pandits in 1989-90

Kashmir Files hate project: Radicalising people, one show at a time?

Anti-Muslim hate has manifested itself offline, across the country and is most visible as boycott, hate speech, slogans, before, and after screenings of the film The Kashmir Files

UP: Jaunpur police allegedly flog Dalit women

Visual show women bearing reddened welts on their bodies but police say medical reports does not show any trauma

UP: Goons carve trishul on a man’s face!

In a fit of rage, four to five men use casteist slurs and physically assault the man for accidentally tipping over a glass of alcohol

All faiths are intertwined: TM Krishna

TM Krishna explains why music has an even bigger role to play now, amidst communal tension, and when open calls are given for genocide

Jharkhand: Youths attack Class 9 student for not chanting Jai Shri Ram!

More youths appear to be developing violent sentiments following the right-wing groups’ calls for arms since last year

Karnataka: Why is the BJP gov’t endorsing “Congress time rule” prohibiting non-Hindu vendors on temple land?

The state’s CM, law and education ministers back the ban now in place at more temples, BJP-Led govt says rule was passed by Cong

Silence is not an option: Journalists to India’s Constitutional institutions

Senior journalists appeal for action against hate speech and open calls for genocide

No death due to manual scavenging: Social Justice Minister Athawale

The news disheartened Dalit activist like Bezwada Wilson regarding government’s concern for the plight of manual scavengers

The Kashmir Files: Right-wing outfits bring weapons inside theatres!

Two known hate offenders Swami Jitendranand Saraswati and Vinod Sharma spread inflammatory speech in cinema halls in front of children

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