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The Hindutva assault on Indore’s Muslims

A woman is forced to sign a blank paper. A trader is threatened for money. Cops record videos as two people get beaten up. The list goes on in Indore, where the influence of Hindutva outfits over institutions has grown larger over the years. At the receiving end are the…

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Attack on Christian priests in MP: FIR after 3 days, no arrests so far

It took Madhya Pradesh police three days to file an FIR against purported Hindutva groups who had allegedly attacked two Catholic priests in Jabalpur on Monday. No arrests have been made in the case so far.

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South Central Ep 15: Centre vs TN over language policy, media censorship

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by TNM’s executive editor Sudipto Mondal and senior journalist K Venkataramanan to discuss the union government withholding education funds from Tamil Nadu over the three-language policy and what it signals about its control over…

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Why a Bangladesh mob burned down home of independence icon Mujibur Rahman

The attack followed a controversial speech by removed former PM Sheikh Hasina, Rahman’s daughter, from exile in India.

Al Jazeera

Yogi got it wrong. It’s the saffron brigade that needs to learn from Indonesia president’s DNA remark

Prabowo Subianto may have intended it to be just an ice-breaker, but he waded right into a hot button political topic for his hosts with his declaration that a DNA test had shown him to have traces of “Indian ancestry”. In doing so, he also showed a mirror to India.

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Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report

The ‘manosphere’ and Hindu nationalism were also identified by report commissioned after last summer’s riots

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Development, soft Hindutva: Is AAP the default choice for Delhi’s Muslims?

Muslims in Delhi have largely thrown their weight behind the AAP in the last two assembly elections. But the party’s soft Hindutva, its positions on the NRC-CAA protests and the Tablighi Jamaat-Covid controversy, the Delhi riots, and issues of development have triggered disenchantment within sections of the community.

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Hafta 518: Bihar protests, Moradabad murder, Hindutva campaigns

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, Raman Kirpal and Shardool Katyayan are joined by The News Minute’s Pooja Prasanna.

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‘Sobering reminder’ for Opposition: Editorials on poll results

Suspense continues in Maharashtra over who will be the chief minister’s face while the Hemant Soren-led government is set to take oath this week in Jharkhand.

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Progressive legacy vs communal tension: Why Kolhapur is at a crossroads

“What happens in Kolhapur follows in the rest of Maharashtra.”

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‘Balasaheb in his blood’: In Worli, does Milind Deora stand a chance against Aaditya Thackeray?

In Mumbai’s vibrant Worli Koliwada, three septuagenarian women sit in the shadow of colourful buildings, watching children play in a makeshift playground nearby. It’s a daily routine – they sit for hours every evening, chatting about things of great and small significance.

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Exclusive: Sharad Pawar on BJP-NCP’s 2019 ‘dinner meeting’ at Adani’s home

In 2019, Sharad Pawar’s colleagues in the NCP were worried about cases against them. They believed there was “no escape” unless their party decided to “go” with the BJP.This is why, Pawar told Newslaundry and The News Minute, he agreed to a 2019 meeting with the BJP. More sensationally, he…

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TV Newsance 271: Zee’s new ‘jihad’, Sudhir’s India vs China, Aaditya Thackeray on Hindutva

It’s the festive season, and both our air and our airwaves are filled with poison. This week we saw our usual suspects celebrate in their favourite ways — fear mongering and endorsing our supreme leader.

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After media’s ‘garba jihad’ bogey, Hindi newspaper’s garba event ‘only for Sanatani Hindus’

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.

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Ruckus outside police station, changed statements: The curious chronology of Ratlam SP’s transfer

➨ 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.

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‘Communal riot script…but Dalits target’: Author Ajaz Ashraf on Bhima Koregaon ‘myth’ and media

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.

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What’s Your Ism? Sharda Ugra on sports, BCCI, wrestlers and more

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?

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‘Islamophobic, alarmist’: How some India outlets covered Bangladesh crisis

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

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What’s Your Ism? Shivasundar on the ‘Hindu Left’

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?

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‘7 assaulted’, house vandalised: Hindutva mob attacks Christian prayer meet in Dehradun

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.

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Murders, drugs, arms, Sanatan Sanstha ‘a holy cow for cops’: Pansare family’s letter after HC direction

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…

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Hindutva resistance, new faces, Cong gains: Reading the Northeast mandate

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.

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Modi 3.0 hall of fame: The special guests and what they did to get there

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.

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‘Overconfidence killed BJP’: Political analyst Sanjay Kumar on Modi, Hindutva, polls

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?

The Conversation

India: why Hindu nationalism and Zionism are ideological cousins

The results are in for India’s general election. The country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has won enough seats to stay in charge for a third consecutive term. But his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered big setbacks, and is gearing up for coalition talks having failed to win an outright…

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