Tag: Fascist Hindutva

From migrant workers and small vendors to university classrooms and electoral rolls, the architecture of suspicion –for the Indian Muslim--now stretches across everyday life

India is a country full of diversity. Many hues....

CPIM, Annie Raja, former civil servants and clerics seek FIRs, an independent SIT and binding guidelines on speech by constitutional functionaries, alleging sustained communal targeting and abuse of executive authority

How a six-year constitutional conversation — spanning ‘Corona Jihad’, ‘UPSC Jihad’, Dharam Sansads, contempt petitions, and preventive policing — culminated in the Supreme Court reserving orders and closing most hate-speech cases

Uttarakhand is increasingly emerging as a hotspot of hate crimes

Based on field investigations and testimonies, the report documents violence, intimidation, and displacement of Muslim families across the state over four years

Be it the Jagannath Mandir in Odisha, a Buddhist temple that was ‘taken over’ by Hinduism or the Jain idols destroyed during Adi Shankracharya’s countrywide yatra, these are no less historically significant than the stories around Somnath and other temples that may have been razed and raised by emperors who happen to be Muslim

In one more attack on ordinary working-class Muslims in a state ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a 33-year-old man was reportedly lynched –and thereafter died--after being forced to utter an aggressive religious symbol in Balasore, Odisha last Wednesday, January 7. Three suspects have been thereafter arrested states Times of India, a video of social media shows a mob assaulting the man and forcing him to shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Gau Mata Ki Jai’

Whipping up hysteria using the term ‘Bangladeshi’, attacks on Muslim workers and hawkers rise sharply in Bihar with one fatal lynching in Madhubani; BJP took power in the state in a controversial election victory on November 14, 2025 and its cadres are reportedly responsible for this spread of hate crime, though JD(S) leader Nitish Kumar remains the CM

An unprecedented analysis of 200+ events showing how demographic panic, vigilante enforcement, and anti-minority mobilisation reshape India’s public sphere