Hate & Harmony

Knives in schoolbags, hatred in classrooms: The dark lessons of Ahmedabad’s Maninagar

The recent ghastly incident in Ahmedabad's sprawling Maninagar (East) area, in which a 10th-class student of the Seventh Day Adventist School was stabbed to death by a boy from...

Parents and students protest in Gujarat after girls asked to remove hijab before board exam

The exam administrator has reportedly been suspended after Muslim girl students in Gujarat were asked to remove their hijab before the class X board exams. However, officials from the Gujarat Board have stated that there is no uniform required to sit for the board exams.

Uncovering Historical Truths: Were the Mughals anti-Hindu?

Fact-Checking claims with Citizens for Peace and Justice to debunk myths: Did the 'Anti-Hindu Mughals' destroy temples in Azerbaijan?

Hatred towards Muslims will not do any good to us or the nation says Kerala BJP leader C.K. Padmanabhan

Claiming that 'My Hindutva is that of Swami Vivekananda and (Kerala social reformer) Sree Narayana Guru. I don’t need anyone else’s (Hindutva), he adds that, “ Our nation’s strength is our unity and its beauty is our multiculturalism'

Shops reopened in Dharchula, Uttarakhand FIRs filed after calm restored: SP

Shops belonging to the minority community reopened in Dharchula town of Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand on Monday, March 18 following the intervention of the district administration.

Hate crime committed against foreign students in Gujarat University

Foreign students attacked in GU, rooms and motorcycles vandalised over namaz row

Conspiracy or Coincidence? Mosques defaced in March after spate of hate speeches provoking the crime weeks before

Provocation and crime: three separate incidents of vandalism and defacement of Mosques since January after three hate speeches calling for demolition of Mosques since January

Bodoland University’s cultural event reportedly displays Muslims as criminals escorted by police, student groups demand apology  

A cultural procession organised by its Department of History at the Bodoland University in Kokrajhar, Assam took a disturbing turn when it depicted Muslims as criminals.

Haldwani Violence: Cautioning police against overreach CPI-M delegation demands independent inquiry

In a letter addressed to the Uttarakhand Governor, Lt. General Gurmit Singh, a CPI-M delegation has demanded an independent inquiry into the recent Haldwani violence and narrated details of their fact-finding conducted when they visited the affected areas on March 13.

The Fire next time: an impassioned plea to the nation for communal sanity

From the archives of Communalism Combat, No. 20, March 1996

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The Stolen Franchise: Why the Election Commission cannot escape accountability

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