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How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand

What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar

Muslim man peacefully offering Namaz at UP railway station “offends” Hindutva leader

Constitutional right to profess and practice religion violated by “leader” as he uploads a  counter video voicing his objections and calls offering namaz an act of defiance of the orders of the CM!

No minister, all is not well with India’s Muslims

A fact check of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s strange link between Muslim well being and ‘population growth’

Red for blood, love and Ramzan

The author, an activist and lawyer recounts her personal experience of shared pain among Hindus and Muslims, even as Gujarat and India are now coloured with the poison of hate

Young Muslim boy in Rajasthan dies by suicide; teachers called him “terrorist”

More than two months since the incident, no action has been taken after filing FIR despite a suicide note discovered from the deceased naming the teachers, claims the brother.

250-year-old mosque in Delhi partially demolished in “anti encroachment drive”

Advocate Mehmood Pracha came to the demolition site and demanded a copy of any order that authorizes the demolition, however no such copy was provided

Haryana: More cow vigilantism incidents were reported in April, state district-level special committees fail to act

In all three incidents, the attacking mob has uploaded pictures of themselves with the truck

Oath for economic boycott of minorities administered in Chhattisgarh

People were also encouraged to display religious signs on their businesses so that it helps other Hindus to identify and only buy from Hindu businesses

Christians of varied denominations demand rights, dignity, protest at Azad Maidan: Maharashtra

Over five thousand Christians representing various Christian denominations in the state, under the banner of the the Samast Christi Samaj demonstrated today and presented a list of grievances to the BJP-Eknath Shinde led Shiv Sena (SS) govt in Maharashtra

Images in Contrast: Bloodied body of 38 year-old Idrees Pasha, a beaming Abdul Rashid

One bloodied, dead, the other stoic and smiling, two contrasting visuals of Muslims from Karnataka reflect a bitter reality

Demolition of 3 Churches in BJP-Ruled Manipur for ‘Illegal Construction’ causes social media uproar

The news of three churches being demolished by the Manipur government authorities, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in power has gone viral on social media given the much publicised religious offering by prime minister Narendra Modi at the Sacred Heart Church in the country’s capital in Easter Sunday, April 9

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Rebuild or Compensate: Nagpur HC confronts NMC over ‘bulldozer’ demolition in riot case

Court flags prima facie breach of Supreme Court safeguards; asks civic body to decide whether it will reconstruct the house or pay damages

CJP’s 2025 Hate Watch: leading the fight for accountability in the digital media

In 2025, CJP emerged as India’s leading voice confronting digital hate on television, spearheading sustained NBDSA interventions that challenged communal broadcasts/debate, secured corrective orders, and strengthened accountability frameworks to restrain the spread of hateful and polarising content across news media

The Double Stage: Caste’s Schizophrenic Modernity between Spectacle and Shadow

Caste from the pre-modern, colonial to the post-Republican; this analysis draws from, among others, works by Nicholas Dirks (2001), Anand Teltumbde (2014) and Gopal Guru (2016) to map this transition showing that contemporary caste should be best understood as a sort of social schizophrenia driven by imaginative acts whereby power perpetuates itself through a convoluted hermetic legitimising act in India.

UGC Guidelines 2026: AISA Protest at Delhi University followed by sexual abuse allegations amid police presence

Delhi university has seen persistent protest by Ambedkarite and left groups demanding implementation of the UGC Guidelines 2026 that were summarily stayed by the Supreme Court; in one such, a confrontation during a mobilisation over UGC equity regulations, AISA women leaders were subject to brute and allegedly sexualised threats, while a right-wing YouTuber filed a separate assault complaint; police have registered parallel FIRs

12 Bengali migrant workers murdered in 6 states, Maharashtra tops the crime list

Following the recently unleashed hysteria on the misnomer “Bangladeshi immigrants”, spearheaded by BJP elected officials from the Centre to States, as many as 12 Bengali migrant workers have been murdered, revealing the physical targeted harm that can flow out of systemic hate speech made by those in public authority; these are statistics compiled by the West Bengal Migrants Welfare Board; 4 of the 12 killed have been in “progressive” Maharashtra and 10 in states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Against the Script of Hate: How ordinary citizens are reclaiming public space

A shop sign in Kotdwar, a shutter kept open in Nainital, a landlord’s refusal in Purola, and a Valentine’s Day standoff in Jaipur — how everyday acts of defiance are reshaping the narrative of communal tension in India