Category: India

India Activates Discriminatory Citizenship Law

India Activates Discriminatory Citizenship Law

March 16, 2024

15 March 2024 Published in: hrw.org This week, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government began implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which parliament had enacted ... Read More

Modi riding the politics of hate to reelection

Modi riding the politics of hate to reelection

March 15, 2024

14 March 2024 Published in: Asia Times Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stepped up attacks on minority groups in the lead-up to India’s general election, ... Read More

India’s Citizenship Amendment Act is a devious anti-Muslim dog whistle

India’s Citizenship Amendment Act is a devious anti-Muslim dog whistle

March 15, 2024

15 March 2024 Published in: Al Jazeera India moved a step closer to formalising itself as a majoritarian country with the announcement of the rules ... Read More

Hindutva is India’s New Religion

Hindutva is India’s New Religion

March 15, 2024

15 March 2024 Published in: The Nation Religious fundamentalism in any of its peculiar forms leads towards the otherization of religious groups existing along­side, nourishing ... Read More

How India came to embrace the politics of Hindutva

How India came to embrace the politics of Hindutva

March 15, 2024

15 March 2024 Published in: Al Jazeera As Modi religiously prepares for India’s elections, Sreenivasan Jain examines the tussle between Hindutva and secularism. The politics ... Read More

Sikh Farmers’ Protest In India: Demands And Context

Sikh Farmers’ Protest In India: Demands And Context

March 14, 2024

Sehr Rushmeen 14 March 2024 Published in: Policy Wire The ongoing Sikh farmers’ protest in India has once again highlighted the long-standing frustrations and sense ... Read More

Obscure trust links India’s top businesses with Modi’s election war chest

Obscure trust links India’s top businesses with Modi’s election war chest

March 14, 2024

14 March 2024 Published in: Reuters Behind the doors of a small, non-descript office in the heart of New Delhi lies the headquarters of an ... Read More

BJP’s push to rig elections

BJP’s push to rig elections

March 13, 2024

13 March 2024 Published in: The Express Tribune New Delhi is rushing through implementation of a controversial citizenship law in a naked effort to change ... Read More

A state that was

A state that was

March 13, 2024

13 March 2024 Published in: The News In what seemed like an eternity ago, India used to be a proud secular state – at least ... Read More

Exclusionary law

Exclusionary law

March 13, 2024

13 March 2024 Published in: DAWN Any illusions that India remains a secular state that treats all its people equally should be put to rest, ... Read More