Minorities

Message being allegedly spread by phone calls urges people to not let the Prime Minister hoist the tricolour at the Red Fort this year

The women had been booked last year in November for organising a congregation against the Supreme Court’s verdict

Petition in SC asking for extension of Scheduled Caste status to Christians and Muslims hailing from historically oppressed castes

Blaming Education ministers who were Muslims adds to Islamophobia in India.

Gaffar, a 52-year-old autorickshaw driver from Sikar, Rajasthan, was beaten till unconscious after also being forced to chant 'Jai Shri Ram'

Allegations of communal bias in response to and treatment of cases involving Muslims

From our Communalism Combat archives (Nov-Dec 1994), here is an exclusive piece by activist Harsh Mander where he gives a moving account of a humane and impartial administration’s encounter with the storm-troopers of hate in Madhya Pradesh

In this interview from 1994, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) former Chairman Ravi Gupta tells Communalism Combat co-editor Teesta Setavad, how he saw varying forms and degrees of not only religious, but also caste and class discrimination become apparant after the Babri Masjid demolition

In this interview from 1994, artist Navjot tells Communalism Combat co-editor Teesta Setavad, about the challenges of being a Sikh woman married to a Muslim man practicing secular values in wake of the Babri Masjid demolition

In this interview from 1994, ad guru Mohammed Khan tells Communalism Combat co-editor Teesta Setavad, about his diverse lineage and why he dislikes the Hindu vs Muslim narrative that emerged in wake of the Babri Masjid demolition