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Spate of Hindu-Muslim communal violence has India on edge

Over the past fortnight, Hindu religious processions have descended into violence and chaos across India, giving rise to concerns the country is becoming more polarised than ever.

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Explained | Why is India concerned about WHO approach on excess deaths during the pandemic?

What are the findings by the WHO? How did they go about it? Why is the Indian government dismissive of the report?

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Jerusalem should come good in The Hindu Trophy

Mumbai: Trainer M. Narredu’s ward Jerusalem, who ran second in his last start, should make amends

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Fact check: Old video linked to fake claim about Hindu New Year rally face-off

The clip was shared in the wake of the communal violence in Karauli

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Andhra Pradesh: BJP lashes out at TTD channel for ‘telecasting film songs’

Somu Veerraju says SVBC should be administered by scholars who have faith in the Hindu dharma

The Hindu

Sonia Gandhi will decide on inducting Prashant Kishor: Digvijaya Singh

Panel submits report to Congress chief.

The Hindu

After Delhi police says ‘no hate speech’ by Suresh Chavhanke at event, SC says ‘file better affidavit’

On Friday, the Supreme Court pulled up the Delhi police for its affidavit clearing Sudarshan News editor Suresh Chavhanke of hate speech.

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The Independent UK

In India, hate-filled songs are a weapon to target Muslims

India’s hardline Hindu nationalists have long espoused an anti-Muslim stance, but attacks against the minority community have recently occurred more frequently

The Independent UK

Hindu, Muslim inmates of UP prison keep alive 50-year roza tradition

LUCKNOW: In the dingy confines of a cell in UP's Barabanki district jail, Rakesh Kumar and Javed Khan share more than just the few square feet that echo their loneliness, despair and occasional stirrings of hope.

The Times of India

India’s Supreme Court halts demolition spree after religious riots in Delhi

India’s top court on Thursday put the brakes on state bulldozers tearing down walls and shops in Delhi after petitioners alleged they were targeted for Hindu-Muslim religious riots.

Radio France Internationale

'I never thought they hated Muslims': After Jahangirpuri demolition drive, friendships that survived

“You have to understand,” the man said passionately. “She comes here everyday. Please let her pass through the barricade. Please?”

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In Delhi suburb, some Muslims say demolitions target them unfairly

India's Supreme Court will soon rule on whether the demolition of shops in a residential area on the outskirts of New Delhi is legal but, for Mohammed Akbar, whatever decision it makes will come too late.

Reuters

‘Tone-deaf’ Boris Johnson visits JCB factory amid outcry in India over demolitions using company’s bulldozers

British PM, who is on a two-day visit to India, says he will ‘always raise the difficult issues’ with his counterpart Narendra Modi

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The murky world of Prashasak Samiti: Meet BJP and Adityanath’s social media warriors

Last year in May, the village of Noorpur in Uttar Pradesh made news when its Dalit residents alleged that a marriage procession of theirs had been stopped by a group of local Muslims. The situation became tense enough to warrant armed police being deployed in the area.

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Did India TV steal an animation artist’s Ram Mandir video?

On February 18, India TV broadcast a primetime segment on an “exclusive” 3D animation video of a model of the Ram Mandir, which is coming up in Ayodhya. The show, Aaj Ki Baat With Rajat Sharma, was hosted by Saurabh Sharma, since Rajat Sharma, the channel’s head, was away celebrating…

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How the Hindu man’s crisis of masculinity fuels Hindutva

As I browse my Twitter timeline, surfing through replies by people clearly identifying themselves as staunch Hindus and, more importantly, as Narendra Modi’s supporters, a common theme emerges: among other religious and political iconography, they use as their display pictures the image of an angry Hanuman’s face, bathed in half…

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Why The Hindu might be pushing civil services aspirants to the Left

On August 2, 1922, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George addressed the parliament about the administrative edifice in India. It was over 125 years since Charles Cornwallis had sown the seeds of the Indian Civil Service in 1793. Seventy years had passed since the Macaulay Committee institutionalised it as a…

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The Hindu is now synonymous with civil services aspirants. What brought on this cult readership?

“This is a newspaper to be studied, not read.”

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‘Propaganda politics of BJP’: Why BHU students aren’t impressed by Amit Shah’s call to rewrite India’s history

Last week, Amit Shah was at Banaras Hindu University to inaugurate a seminar on Skandagupta Vikramaditya, the 5th century Gupta emperor. Addressing a gathering of academicians, the home minister said there was a need to rewrite India’s history from a new perspective. Why? Because history, as it’s taught today, doesn’t…

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Kishore Kunal: Meet the former policeman whose Ayodhya map was torn up in the Supreme Court

Beyond a city landmark or the contentious Bobby case of 1983, a legendary Patna cop continues to stay afloat in public memory. Kishore Kunal, former Indian Police Service officer of the 1972 batch, had one such moment yesterday.

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Celebration of diversity: Second Hindu College Pride parade conveys a sense of hope, freedom

Amid cheers and the shouting of slogans seeking “Azadi” from the shackles of heteronormativity and homophobia, Hindu College witnessed the second edition of its Pride parade on September 18. The parade, organised by the Women’s Development Cell of the Delhi University college with help from its various societies, saw participation…

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Challenging the institutionalised ‘common sense’ of India’s political discourse

Terms of discourse, much like terms of trade, are favourable and unfavourable to some. The dominant position in setting these terms, as held by the Left in India’s academic institutions and a major section of the English media, led to an unchallenged common sense. As a result, the rival political…

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A history lesson for Atul Kochhar

It’s obvious the celebrated Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar does not know his roast poussin from his lamb rump. For starters, how could an apparently savvy, accomplished and trained chef not tell the difference between Muslim and Islam when he castigated Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra? In the tweet to Chopra, Kochhar…

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#Cobrapost sting and Hindutva in the newsroom

The lines between editorial and marketing departments are more blurred than media organisations would like to acknowledge. This has been well established by documentation of paid news cases. The Cobrapost sting reinforces the fact that media’s business model is advertisement-centric.

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