Armed Monk Network Mobilising Hindus for Violence in Uttar Pradesh
Since October 2024, India’s Uttar Pradesh state has witnessed the rapid emergence of an armed militant-monk movement led by Madhuram Sharan Shiva, who presents himself as a former full-time worker (pracharak) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and former Prantiya Sangathan Mantri (Provincial Organization Minister) of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). RSS remains the ideological […]
Frontline: The violence our children carry
It is a timeless image. Weighed down by books and rounded up by a colourful tiffin box and sharply spruced-up pencils, a school bag is the quintessential childhood add-on. These days, unfortunately, there is more in that mix. In August, a class VIII student in Ahmedabad hid a knife in his backpack, and, once in […]
Alt News: ‘Lynching’ of Aasif Babu Multani: Is media’s silence contributing to normalizing anti-Muslim hate crimes?
A quote often attributed to English author George Orwell defines journalism as printing what someone else does not want printed, and everything else as public relations. If one tracks how the alleged lynching of Aasif Babu Multani by cow vigilantes in Bhilwara was reported in the media, one would wonder if the Indian legacy media […]
INDIA TODAY: Case against Telangana MLA for controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad
A case has been registered against Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh at Hyderabad’s Shah Ali Banda Police Station for allegedly making derogatory remarks with regard to Prophet Muhammad during a Dussehra event in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore. According to police sources, the FIR has been lodged under various relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), […]
The Logical Indian: Telangana MLA T Raja Singh Booked for Controversial Remarks on Prophet Muhammad
A case has been registered against Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh at Hyderabad’s Shah Ali Banda Police Station for allegedly making derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad during a Dussehra event in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The FIR, filed on October 5, 2025, invokes multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including 196(2) for promoting enmity […]
Sabrang India: CJP files complaint to Maharashtra DGP, SP Jalgaon over police participation in communal rally amid Suleman Pathan lynching probe
In a development that raises profound questions about institutional neutrality and the integrity of criminal investigations, the Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has filed a detailed complaint with the Director General of Police (DGP), Maharashtra and Superintendent of Police, Jalgaon, demanding urgent disciplinary action against police officials of Jamner Police Station, Jalgaon district, for […]
NewsX: Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh Booked For Allegedly Insulting Prophet Muhammad
A complaint has been lodged against Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh at Shah Ali Banda Police Station for apparently making slanderous comments against Prophet Muhammad while addressing a Dussehra rally in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The action was taken following complaints from several citizens denouncing the comments, labeling them blasphemous. As per the police, the FIR […]
The Straits Time: Move by India’s Assam state to allow arms for ‘indigenous’ people stirs fears of worsening violence
NEW DELHI – A decision by the Assam government to introduce a liberal arms policy for “indigenous” civilians to defend themselves against “unlawful threats” could worsen the north-eastern Indian state’s long and bloody record of ethnic and religious violence, critics say. That could have a far-reaching impact, including for India’s “Act East” policy. Assam’s stability […]
The Wire: ‘You’re Bangladeshi’: ‘Nationalist’ Groups Target Miya Muslims, Give Ultimatum to Leave Upper Assam
Barpeta, Assam: Shahin Alam is a carpenter, a muazzin at a mosque and as well as a teacher at a maktab in Tinsukia district of Assam. He has been living in Lohari Kochari village, which is about 600 kilometre from his hometown in Silchar. On August 10, a group of people arrived near his maktab […]
New Internationalist: A TIME OF MONSTERS
We’re already seeing the damage, ranging from migrant communities terrorized by Trump’s anti-immigration raids to Muslims targeted by vicious pogroms in India. The harm which leaders peddling this politics can cause even in a short space of time is immense. During his four-year tenure, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro inflicted immeasurable and perhaps irreversible harm to the […]