Decoding Hate

Hate Watch: Gurgaon’s communal side; residents oppose Friday namaz offered in open space

The Muslims in Sector 47 offer namaz at a site that has been designated for the same 

UP: Where armed communal vigilante groups prowl the streets

An old man is abducted, assaulted in Loni; meatseller thrashed in Moradabad; vegetable vendor killed in Unnao; reporter threatened in Gorakhpur… all in the past one month!

Goa: Congress seeks withdrawal of gov’t order appointing hate monger Prashant Patel as State Counsel

SC lawyer Prashant Umrao has earned a reputation of spreading hate against minorities on social media

Priest Yati Narsinghanand says Muslim boy got ‘befitting reply’ for entering temple

Chief Priest of Dasna Devi temple came out in support of Shringi Yadav, who thrashed a young Muslim boy for entering a temple to drink water

Karnataka: BJP Minister says Muslim cannot contest for Belagavi Lok Sabha seat

The communal comment by the state Minster has attracted flak on social media for trying to further widen the gap between Hindus and Muslims in India.

Divisive videos promoting hate resurface as Bihar elections draw closer

The IT cell swings into action as it hunts down dated cases to disrupt social harmony and divert people’s attention from pressing issue to the usual ‘Hindu-Muslim-divide.’

‘UPSC Jihad’ in civil service recruitment: Suresh Chavhanke

The Editor-in-Chief of Sudarshan News dubs rising number of Muslim civil servants a communal conspiracy

UP BJP Spokesperson calls consensual marriage ‘love jihad’

A Kanpur woman marries a Muslim man in Lucknow against her family’s wishes, right-wing trolls challenge union on social media

Hate Hatao: Hindutva page on FB posts old videos to incite new hate

This page with over 18,000 followers posts old provocative videos of right wing leaders  

Social media hate machine goes into overdrive against Rhea Chakraborty

After Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise which is being investigated by the Police and now the Enforcement Directorate, Rhea has been constantly targeted on social media

Demolish temple to build mosque: Sajid Rashidi stokes controversy

This statement came a day after the Ram temple event of August 5. He is someone who is known to have supported BJP during Delhi elections

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97,000 persons convicted in UP under ‘operation conviction’: State Govt

Of this significant if not staggering number, 68 accused persons were sentenced to death, 8,172 received life imprisonment, 1,453 were sentenced to over 20 yrs., and 87,465 were sentenced up to 20 years’ states a report in The Hindustan Times.

‘What happened to Ali Mohammad was wrong’: UP temple’s Muslim caretaker held for offering namaz; Hindu priest to arrange bail, says he served with dignity for 35 years reports TOI

In Budaun, Times of India reported how a temple priest has offered to bail out a Muslim caretaker arrested for offering namaz on temple grounds. Paramanand Das condemned the video recording and emphasised Ali Mohammad's decades of faithful service. Despite the arrest and charges of defiling a place of worship, Das affirmed Ali's respect for all faiths and the temple's inclusive nature.

Odisha: senior Bhubaneswar municipal official assaulted on duty, told to “apologise” to BJP leader

In an incident reported on June 30, the motley group of BJP supporters then allegedly started assaulting him without any provocation and demanded that he apologise to Pradhan, reports the Indian Express.

Independent experts, not government servants must be part of the CEC while deciding the challenge to Forest Conservation Act: Former bureaucrats to SC

Urging that independent experts must be part of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) advising the SC on the impacts, adverse of otherwise of the Forest Conservation Amendment Act (FCAA), 2023 –currently under challenge-- sixty former civil servants have in an open letter warned against the possibly “comprised stand and conflict of interest of the present CEC advising the Court

How Prisons Become Spaces of Quiet Erasure

The refusal to deliver a letter with posters to Gulshifa was not a surprise. Many who write to political prisoners have faced similar outcomes.

Bihar 2025 Election: EC drops parental birth document requirement for 4.96 crore electors and their children in Bihar

Amidst ongoing protest, opposition and debate surrounding the hastily announced revision process in Bihar, the Election Commission of India has now taken a step back; it has uploaded the 2003 Bihar electoral rolls, exempting 4.96 crore electors, and their children born after 1987, from submitting parental birth documents; individuals not on the 2003 list can still use its extracts for parental details, directly by the voters themselves

Poonch Court orders FIR against Zee News, News18 for falsely labelling deceased teacher as “Pakistani terrorist” during Operation Sindoor coverage

While court orders FIR for defamation and public mischief, CJP had earlier filed complaint with broadcaster highlighting defamatory, Islamophobic coverage