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Over the past few years, a section of the mainstream media has been amplifying the bogey of “garba jihad” every Navratri – the Hindutva conspiracy theory that Muslim men are entering garba pandals to lure Hindu women into an Islamist trap. 

➨ In May 2022, a local BJP leader’s nephew was booked for vandalising statues at a temple a day before Eid-ul-Fitr. Hindutva footsoldiers had tried to blame Muslims for the incident in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur district.

From official history to popular culture, the Hindutva investment in remaking the past has been all too visible over the last decade. And this attempt to dominate history has opened new flashpoints, such as the one linked to the Battle of Bhima Koregaon.

How did the entry of the BJP and Hindutva complicate the already chaotic world of Indian sport? Are cricketers by design less anti establishment than footballers?

India media make claims linking China and Pakistan intelligence to protests and exaggerate scale of attacks on Hindus.

In these Indian elections, a cross section of progressive mass organisations helped the Congress curtail the BJP’s electoral power. But what does the Congress resurgence mean for the progressive agenda and the fight against Hindutva? What do we make of Rahul Gandhi’s good Hindu versus bad Hindu narrative?

It could’ve been a regular Sunday morning for 35-year-old Deeksha Paul as she prepared for weekly prayers at her home in Uttarakhand’s Dehradun with her family, a relative, and neighbours last week.

In a 68-page letter to the Maharashtra ATS, the family of slain rationalist Govind Pansare has submitted “evidence” from police documents to point to a strategic plan allegedly by the Hindutva outfit Sanatan Sanstha to kill rationalists and intellectuals in Maharashtra and Karnataka. It alleged negligence on part of investigators…

The Lok Sabha poll results from the Northeast, which is electorally small with 25 Lok Sabha seats but territorially significant, have found little space in the mainstream media. The region, however, saw significant shifts in political narratives, with the BJP-led NDA losing some of its fort in the region.     

The dress code was floral or summer ceremonial. The invites were in cursive. The guest list was over 9,000, including heads of states, filmstars, sports celebrities, and corporate honchos. And there was an afterparty, with an elaborate vegetarian menu.

The Lok Sabha poll results stunned most spectators, with the BJP falling short of the majority mark despite its clarion call for over 400 seats. So what went wrong? How did the INDIA bloc parties engineer their revival?