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.
In a video message, Sriram Sena convener Pramod Muthalik said the Hindu outfits have been demanding that the loudspeakers on mosques should be banned and the Supreme Court’s order on noise pollution implemented.
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.
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.
A republic nation is defined as “a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.” India marks January 26 as its Republic Day every year. In 2022, the country is celebrating its 73rd Republic Day.
However, after seven decades India gradually is on the verge of becoming an ethnocracy. Under the Narendra Modi led BJP government the country is normalizing the notion of Hindu Rashtra; indirect majoritarian governance.
Nasir Pasha, General Secretary, Popular Front Karnataka has demanded immediate stringent actions against the leaders of the Sangh Parivar in the case of the murder of a Muslim Boy Sameer Shahpur in Naragunda of Gadag district, Karnataka.
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
In the Chauri Chaura area of Gorakhpur, the Hindutva mob surrounded a Muslim house, pelted stones, and vandalized properties belonging to Muslim families. After Islamic flags hung from the rooftops of Muslim houses went made viral claiming as “Pakistani Flag”. Following, the violent mob surrounded the locality and raised Hindutva war cry slogans
On Tuesday night, Chand Mian, father of Altaf had demanded that police answer how Altaf had died. “Police told me they suspected my son in the case and wanted to question him. I handed my son to the police, who came to my house. When I went to the station, they turned me back. After 24 hours, police say my son hanged himself. It was the police that hanged my son”