Hate & Harmony

Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Bill: Legislating suspicion in the name of “love jihad”

The proposed Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam, 2026 seeks to criminalise alleged forced conversions with harsh penalties and intrusive state oversight

How many rapes and murders will it take before the UP govt takes action?

The third case of rape and murder in just three weeks, reported from the Lakhimpur Kheri district, the victim was 3 years old

Riot book authors meet Delhi Police Commissioner, file complaint against Bloomsbury and others

Authors’ allegations include cheating, breach of trust etc against the publishers, as well as activists, writers and journalists

Facebook and Delhi Violence: State Assembly committee receives further evidence of culpability

Committee of Peace and Harmony to summon Facebook officials in the next meeting following mounting evidence by independent journalists of the company’s involvement in Delhi riots.

Remembering Kandhamal

After travelling to Gujarat following the pogrom of 2002, I began inquiring into Hindu nationalist mobilisations in Odisha

Progressive Students’ Forum raises concern over TISS registrar’s ‘communal’ social media posts

After students write open letter expressing concerns over registrar’s alleged communal tweets, he deletes account

Secularism and its importance to the ‘majority’

Let us judge people by their contributions to the nation and the global family instead of a personal matter like faith

Communal and Targeted Violence Bill: Why it must be codified into law

Re-plug: Originally published in November 2011, we are revisiting this piece as we remember the Kandhamal carnage and other acts of targeted violence against minorities

Kandhamal 2020: We live with the national shame of impunity in perpetuity

From the mass murder of Christians in Kandhamal to the killing of Graham Staines, Christian minorities remain at peril

BJP MLA’s communal Facebook posts finally removed

Posts by Shiladitya Dev sparked hatred against Bangaldeshi-Muslims in Assam

Dialed 100 repeatedly, got no answer: Delhi riot survivor

Amnesty International India reveals horrors recalled by survivors of the communal violence that raged in North East Delhi

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