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Javed Anand writes: Secularists must support rights of Muslims in an increasingly Islamophobic world, but they should be wary of strengthening the Muslim right in the process
To make sense of the contradictory voices within the community of secular-minded Indians on the raging hijab (...)
The defense of victims of one (majority) religious fundamentalist extreme right should not lead to supporting another (be it minority) one.
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I am following closely the events in Karnataka university/colleges and the controversy about female students wearing various head covering (...)
The Booker-winning author says the present situation in the country is “extremely depressing” but she believes there are signs that the Indian people are climbing out of the hole they’ve fallen into.
‘Amidst the confusion, chaos and cacophony of Indian politics, what sort of country are we (...)
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More than 150 secular human rights activists strongly condemn the attempt by Hindutva forces and the BJP government of Karnataka to engulf college and school campuses in the already raging communal fire in the state.
At the same time, IMSD disagrees with the claim of the (...)
The cost of installing the latest sculpture alone – Rs 1000 crore – is equivalent to one-third of the entire allocation of the Union government’s culture ministry for this year.
Just as the Mughal Empire was known for exquisite miniature paintings, to the extent that the ‘Mughal Miniature’ is a (...)
At least three major incidents have been reported from Karnataka since January where students have been denied entry into the premises of educational institutions for wearing ’hijab’.
New Delhi: Protesting against students wearing hijabs inside the classroom, a section of students in Karnataka (...)
In recent years, the NCPCR has devoted considerable attention to poorly substantiated complaints against minority communities.
A little after noon on December 6, Rahul Raghuvanshi was about halfway through writing his maths exam paper in St Joseph’s School in the town of Ganj Basoda in Madhya (...)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had claimed that for 75 years since independence, talking about and fighting for people’s rights have weakened India. Modi stressed that for the next 25 years, Indians must forget their rights and pursue the path of sacrifices, hard work and penance to build a strong (...)
Amid growing intolerance to India’s Christian minority, several Christmas events were targeted by Hindu right wing groups
Festive celebrations were disrupted, Jesus statues were smashed and effigies of Santa Claus were burned in a spate of attacks on India’s Christian community over Christmas. (...)
The folowing statement has been signed by nearly 400 secular citizens from all over India. and from diverse fields: social and political activists, lawyers, journalists, writerts, poets, actors, film makers, businessmen, farmers, home makers.... A large majority of the signatories are Muslims. (...)
As sectarian nationalism is becoming more assertive and strong, the religious minorities are being subjected to intimidation and violence on regular basis. As such there is an increase the frequency of this phenomenon during last decade in an alarming way.
The anti-Muslim violence is noticed (...)
On Feb. 4, 2019, a Facebook researcher created a new user account to see what it was like to experience the social media site as a person living in Kerala, India.
For the next three weeks, the account operated by a simple rule: Follow all the recommendations generated by Facebook’s algorithms (...)
Though right-wing organisations extend superficial support to a uniform civil code, their opposition to interfaith marriages and religious conversion lay bare their intentions.
The simultaneous agenda of introducing a uniform civil code (UCC) on the one hand and opposing interfaith marriages (...)
On the 14th of September, a 19 year old woman of the Valmiki caste,was gang-raped and brutally assaulted by four Thakur men in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. Her spine was broken, and her tongue cut out. Days later, she died in a hospital from the severe injuries sustained during the attack. The (...)
The VHP’s campaign on an imaginary Muslim conspiracy got a shot in the arm thanks to the support expressed by CM Adityanath.
Lucknow: A Hindu girl marrying a Muslim in today’s forward looking world would ordinarily be taken as a simple inter-faith marriage. But that is not how the right-wing (...)
Though the Supreme Court refused to entertain on June 3 a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for renaming India as ‘Bharat’ or ‘Hindustan’, it does not put an end to the longstanding Hindutva agenda on this issue. The Supreme Court decision was purely on technical/legal grounds namely that ‘Bharat’ (...)
Amit Shah, Home Minister of India, recently in a statement in Parliament said, “Such riots can happen only when there is a pre-planned conspiracy behind it. We are also probing the conspiracy angle. All those who caused the violence will not be able to escape the law” (Indian Express, 2020). (...)
They say ‘history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce’. In case of India, communal violence not only keeps repeating itself, the pattern of the tragedy keeps changing every time. Some features of the violence are constant, but they are under the wraps, mostly. The same can be (...)
Rashtriya swayamsevak sangh (RSS), India’s National Volunteer Organisation, is the oldest, largest and most successful far-right group in the world today. It is also the effective ruling power in India. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is merely a political front – one of numerous fronts – (...)
WSS demands immediate action against BJP ex-MLA Kapil Mishra for inciting violence and against Delhi Police Commissioner for failure to maintain law and order!
In the wake of the incendiary speech given by BJP ex-MLA Kapil Mishra on February 23th 2020 where in the presence of the DCP he said, (...)
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