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ASHOK KUMAR THE HINDUMuslims at a dhaba near Basai village. Photo: Ashok Kumar Mewat has witnessed as escalation in communal violence Around two dozen Muslim families, operating small enterprises such as barbers shops, and tailoring and scrap units were thrashed… Continue Reading →
EXCLUSIVE MUZAFFARNAGAR RAPE SURVIVORS Shadow Lines Chilling accounts of rape survivors in the Jat-Muslim riot that changed the contours of the UP election NEHA DIXIT “Why were we raped if a boy eve-teased a girl? Did the whole nation go… Continue Reading →
Aditi Pai Pune, June 13, 2014 | On June 2, hours after a group of goons, armed with hockey sticks, beat up a bearded Muslim youth in Hadapsar in Pune’s suburbs and left him to die, a text message in Marathi started doing… Continue Reading →
By Anand Teltumbde 11 June, 2014 Countercurrents.org Now that people have voted for BJP beyond its own imagination and Narendra Modi got on to the business of ‘maximum governance’ many people thought that the old games associated with hindutva would… Continue Reading →
AFP Ahmedabad, May 26, 2014 First Published: 16:05 IST(26/5/2014) | Last Updated: 16:20 IST(26/5/2014) Ahmedabad: Police fired tear gas to break up clashes between Hindu and Muslim mobs in Narendra Modi’s heartland of Gujarat on the eve of his swearing in… Continue Reading →
By GARDINER HARRISMAY 16, 2014 Muslim women with a portrait of Narendra Modi, the candidate from the Bharatiya Janata Party, on Friday in Varanasi. Allies say there is no reason for Muslims to fear a government led by him. CreditSanjay Kanojia/Agence France-Presse — Getty… Continue Reading →
subhash gatade “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between Sixteen year old Shahwan, from Ahmedabad, who is still waiting for his Class… Continue Reading →
Apr 30, 2014 12:21 AM , By Hasan Suroor The narrative in which Muslims see themselves as victims of secularism has about as much validity as the Sangh Parivar’s charge of Muslim appeasement. Muslims are not victims of secularism… Continue Reading →
cartoon courtesy- satish acharya Indrajeet Rai 28 April 2014, 02:19 PM IST Indian democracy is at a crossroads. There is a real danger that the 2014 general election may propel it on a perilous path. If opinion polls are to… Continue Reading →
Narendra Modi has not lost any elections. The only defeats he has suffered have all been in the United States where the many attempts to get the ban lifted on his US visa were defeated by the pluralist alliance, the… Continue Reading →