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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 · Apr 22, 2022

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 · Apr 21, 2022

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 · Apr 21, 2022

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'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?”

Newslaundry · Apr 21, 2022

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 · Apr 21, 2022

‘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

The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Mar 11, 2022

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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…

Newslaundry · Feb 21, 2020

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…

Newslaundry · Jan 14, 2020

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…

Newslaundry · Jan 10, 2020

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

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

Newslaundry · Jan 9, 2020

‘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…

Newslaundry · Oct 22, 2019

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.

Newslaundry · Oct 17, 2019

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…

Newslaundry · Sep 19, 2019

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Newslaundry · Jun 6, 2019

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…

Newslaundry · Jun 14, 2018

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…

Newslaundry · May 30, 2018

#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.

Newslaundry · May 23, 2018

An uncivil ‘Hindu Rashtra’

The quest for civility-based relations remains the major demand of the Dalits and Muslims of India. Civility here is considered as simply practising “humane actions” while interacting with non-group members.

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Newslaundry · May 15, 2018

Dear friend. Come visit Jamia

On May 8, a Facebook post urged the Hindu students of Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia university to assemble at a sweet shop near the campus. Contrary to what one would expect, the meet was less about mithai and more about pitai.

Newslaundry · May 14, 2018

How the Citizenship Bill is reopening old wounds in the Northeast

A visit to Assam and Meghalaya by members of a Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the contentious draft Citizenship (Amendment) Bill of 2016 has brought to the fore old fractures between communities that were in the process of healing, and raised fears of fresh unrest in a region that turned towards…

Newslaundry · May 11, 2018

#KarnatakaElections: Politics of privilege driving Lingayat movement?

In Karnataka, the Lingayats are fighting a battle to get the status of a separate religious community. They claim that the religion of the followers of 12th century philosopher Basavanna should be recognised as Lingayatism.

Newslaundry · May 10, 2018

‘I am an Indian, a Kannadiga and a Lingayat,’ says Kalburgi’s son

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah have been alleging that those behind the Lingayat movement in Karnataka are trying to create a divide in the Hindu community.

Newslaundry · May 9, 2018

#KarnatakaElections: How will the state’s mutts influence voters?

It is not news when Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah visits a temple or seeks benediction from the head of a mutt. But when Congress leaders do so, it raises eyebrows. According to a Congress leader, party president Rahul Gandhi and chief minister…

Newslaundry · May 5, 2018

Bantwal, Karnataka’s most brazenly communal constituency

Section 144 was imposed in Dakshina Kannada’s Bantwal taluka, 25 km from Mangalore, from the very first day of Ramzan (May 26) last year. The prohibitory orders were in place for almost 56 days. Despite the precautionary measures, the taluka in coastal Karnataka witnessed two murders and several instances of…

Newslaundry · May 4, 2018

The battle against rape begins in the living room

The revulsion over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases was fresh in the minds of people when another instance of ugly Indian male chauvinism came to the fore.

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