Hate & Harmony

112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.

Poisoning people’s minds to ensure polarisation in the coming polls

With Uttar Pradesh going to poll soon, the ruling party wants to reignite its communal agenda

Alienation and apathy: Assam government’s 2021 agenda?

From a new cow protection law to eviction of minority communities, here are some of the Assam government’s most blatantly exclusionist policy decisions of 2021

Why does the PM look the other way when BJP leaders give communal speeches?

BJP politicians are in the limelight for spewing communal speeches that sound like right-(BJP)wing chants

Had a happy Christmas weekend? Have a look at how communal mobs celebrated theirs

Christians, and others, celebrating the festival of joy, including at schools, were targeted by right-wing groups across the country

Activists counter call for genocide with a call for secularity

Human rights activists and experts talk about the dangers of increasing hate-speech in India during a press conference organized today

‘India must be declared a Hindu nation’, says controversial ex-cop, DG Vanzara

DG Vanzara claimed "Hindus are in danger", and "till India remains a secular state, Hindus will never be able to become owners of this country”

A Christmas Message for We the People

#Hum Hindu Hain #Hum Mussalman Hain #Hum Christian Hain#Hum...

Uttarakhand: Will Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi nee Wasim Rizvi benefit from the FIR against him, or will he be the scapegoat?

Uttarakhand police filed an FIR against Tragi-Rizvi for speaking at the  ‘Dharma Sansad’ that became a platform for Hindutva 'leaders’ to spew anti-Muslim hate speech and call for communal violence

Victims of Vilification 2021

Professionals, students, politicians and activists were attacked, trolled, sued, even jailed… simply for doing their duty, and for speaking up for victims

BJP govt “underplayed” Tripura violence: Fact finding report

Editors’ Guild of India’s fact-finding report says Tripura police and administration displayed a “lack of professionalism and integrity” in dealing with communal violence, and with those reporting on the issue

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