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• Worsening Spiral of Hate speech: Demonization of Religious Minorities | Ram Puniyani

  29 November 2024, by Ram Puniyani

  RSS-BJP and its affiliates take every opportunity to deepen the demonization of religious minorities. Though there are legal provisions for punishing these Hate speeches mostly they go unpunished. Last decade as the communal party is in power the phenomenon has seen a dangerous downslide, which is leading to negative social perceptions about the religious minorities. As reflected in the community whatsapp groups and social attitudes; hating these minorities has become a sort of normal (…)

• India’s image internationally takes a beating thanks to the Adani and Modi combine | Arun Srivastava

  29 November 2024

  Narendra Modi

• Demand for Denial of Right to Vote for Muslims in Karnataka — a lab for communal agendas | J P Gadkari

  29 November 2024, by J P Gadkari

  November 28, 2024
  Karnataka has been the lab for experimenting on various kind of communal agendas. During the previous BJP regime Hijab, Halal, disallowing Muslim traders from the Hindu festival places etc were controversies making headlines every other day and some of them like Hijab were dealt at the judicial level. However, the people in general were not affected by it and the controversies remained located in certain parts of the State only.
  In Assembly elections held in (…)

• Modi’s New Discovery | J P Gadkari

  29 November 2024, by J P Gadkari

  November 24, 2024
  Our Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi has a habit of inventing some things that never happened or existed in the chequered history of our country and falsely charging the Indian National Congress (INC) and holding it responsible for using it to its political advange.
  Look at this. While addressing the boisterous BJP supporters at the victory rally at party H Q in Delhi after his party’s massive win in Maharashtra, Modi accused the Congress of "forming the Wakf (…)

• Culture of

  29 November 2024, by Sunita Samal

  Abstract: Are confessions and revelations hidden truths? Augustine wrote his

• Gandhi

  29 November 2024

  Mahatma Gandhi is globally renowned for his non-violent movement and Satyagraha during the Indian freedom struggle. But can we truly regard him as a feminist? When evaluating Gandhi in the context of Indian feminism, we must also focus on the feminine virtues he embodied throughout his life. Gandhi not only supported women

• Violence in Sambhal . . . along expected lines of the Sangh

  29 November 2024, by Humra Quraishi

  27 November 2024
  What is taking place in Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh is not just too shocking but along the expected format of the Sangh

• Counter-Insurgency Operations in Chhattisgarh | Arup Kumar Sen

  29 November 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The counter-insurgency operations against the

• Farmers Scarred by Mining Recover Lost Ground as Green Crops Smile on Rocky Land | Bharat Dogra

  29 November 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  Farmers of Makanpurswami village, located in Mandrayal block of Karauli district (Rajasthan) were experiencing a lot of difficulties about a decade back. This is a rocky area known for its stone mining, and cultivation had been adversely affected (although not to the same extent as seen in the context of very large-scale mining). Increasing water scarcity had combined with this to create conditions in which most farmers were unable to cultivate a significant part of their land, while the (…)

• Pakistan politics at its worst

  29 November 2024

  Beyond the headlines as ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s supporters take protest to the politicians in the federal capital - will force or reason win the day? If force wins, Pakistan loses. This is a different Pakistan than in the past. The people want more. They are demanding respect from their leaders, and for their rights and their needs to be recognized and met.
  by Kathy Gannon / Sapan News
  Tens of thousands of protesters belonging to the party of Pakistan