Here is why it’s important to address the question of caste and religion in India
Recognising caste, religion, or ethnicity in crime reporting is not about creating divisions but about capturing the full impact of the violence.
Recognising caste, religion, or ethnicity in crime reporting is not about creating divisions but about capturing the full impact of the violence.
On Friday March 4, the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Haryana introduced the Haryana Prevention of Unlawful Conversion of Religious Bill, 2022 in the Vidhan Sabha. This step by the Haryana government follows similar moves by Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka, all BJP run states. These have been later passed as laws.
Scores of seers and saints camping at Magh Mela on the sandy banks of the river Ganga on Saturday raised a demand for declaring India a Hindu nation, treating Subhash Chandra Bose as the first Prime Minister of the country and capital punishment for conversion which should be treated as treason.
Opposing the bail plea of Umar Khalid, an accused in Anti Muslim Northeast Delhi violence case, a Special Public Prosecutor on Friday brought the example of the 9/11 attack in the US.
Religion does not talk about hate and violence. The utmost teaching of any religion is the service of mankind. And Indian constitution through its articles grants freedom to practice ones own religion. The most ridiculous thing Hindutva fanatics did in the name of Dharm Sansad is normalized hate. The open call for arm violence against Muslims has encouraged the belief there is nothing wrong in hating and attacking fellow Muslims.
In the first sentencing in the 2020 Delhi Riots cases, a Delhi Court on Thursday awarded a man five-year jail term after he was found guilty of rioting and setting on fire
Dr Stanton said he had warned the then-Rwandan president that “if you don’t do something to prevent genocide in your country, there is going to be genocide here within five years. That was in 1989. The genocide developed, the hate speech developed, all the early warning signs developed. And as we know, 800,000 Tutsis and other Rwandans were murdered in 1994”.
“We cannot let that happen in India.
‘They want to kill 20 lakh Muslims. We are ready for it. At least 20,000 Muslims here will surrender before the government and are ready to sacrifice their lives for the country’s peace and harmony,’
While returning home Aamir was showing clothes to the potential customers around the Nagla Khem area where he encountered a father-son duo, walked up to him and asked his name. On finding out that Aamir is Muslim; the two allegedly forced him to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.
Shivraj Chouhan, has single-handedly turned Madhya Pradesh into a lawless state. The state has seen a rapid rise of Hindutva terrorism with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chanting mob often terrorising hapless Muslims.