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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
Marginalising the already marginalised: Economic Boycott Targeting Muslims
Looking into the prevailing economic status of the Muslim minority in India shows that these calls for their economic boycott will further push them over a dangerous precipice of marginalisation.
Selling One’s Soul – The betrayal of Christ and Constitution
For the past couple of days, electronic and print...
Himanta Biswa Sarma targets poll bound Karnataka, spreads communally divisive ideology, distorts history, attacks Congress
The new poster-boy of Hindutva’s hate mongering, the Assam CM also says that he envisions the new India to have more Ram Janmabhoomis, more temples, and to be madrassas free
Rising Intolerance in Maharashtra: 2 Muslim boys arrested for putting a status on Aurangzeb
Both Muslim boys, arrested by the Kohlapur police, have been charged for disturbing “religious harmony”
A Secular Marriage Law Comes To the Rescue of Indian Muslim Parents
Some Families Are Quietly Subverting the Muslim Personal Law to Provide Inheritance to Their Daughters By Registering Their Marriages Under The Special Marriage Act
#GetWellSoonGeetaJain Campaign gets off the ground, Mira Road Bhayander residents’ push back against Hate
Citizens of Mira Road-Bhayander are launching a unique citizens counter communication narrative to drive out #HateVirus from their midst, starting with their elected representative, MLA Geeta Jain
No data maintained on religion-wise distribution of jobs for minority communities in Public Sector Institutions: MoMA
As Smriti Irani provides a list of schemes for the minority community, lack of data brings up the question of schemes even being implemented
Tension prevails in #Haveri, # Rattihalli after stone pelting on Mosque and Homes: Karnataka
A special visit by ADGP Karnataka led to heightened security in the area, the deployment of six platoons of the KSRP, 23 arrests five of whom are minors
VHP functionary held in bid to extort money from priest after concocting false allegations
This is yet another example of a strong network of vigilantes that uses extortion to pressurize the Christian clergy. According to The Hindu, police have arrested Muthuvel, 40, district secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on the charge of demanding money from a parish priest in the Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu.
Violence breaks out after controversial route of a procession passes Mosque in Karnataka’s Haveri, 15 detained
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