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‘Free the Temple’, ‘Protect the Faith’, ‘Take Up Weapons’: How September’s festivals became stages for anti-Muslim hate

From contested places of worship to demographic fearmongering, a series of speeches used Hindu religious identity to construct Muslims as an existential threat and recast exclusion as religious defence

Cash for communalism: Cobrapost undercover investigation exposes media houses all too willing to peddle Hindutva

Cobrapost investigation exposes many Indian media houses willing to...

Delhi Police Turns on JNU: Open Lathi Charge on Student-Teacher Long March

#JNULongMarchProtest, was manhandled by both women and men constables...

Tripura Descends Into Violence with BJP’s Take Over of the State

Seventee year old, Copious Debbrama's anguished cry to the...

CJP writes to Varanasi top cop over physically intimidating behaviour of his men

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BHU students complain against the play on Nathuram Godse in campus

Students from the Banaras Hindu University speak to Sabrang...

Large Scale Protests Erupt across Gujarat after Dalit Man Immolates Self

Image Courtesy: Mid-Day The Gujarat police detained VadgamMLA,  JigneshMevani in...

Time to ‘Militarise Hindus, Hinduise Nation’

The RSS Supremo Mohan Bhagwat belittles the Indian army,...

De-Coding VD Savarkar’s ‘Hindutva’

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