Minorities

Bangladesh govt needs to assuage sense of insecurity among minorities, says ISKCON

There should be long-term steps to ensure that minorities, including Hindus, are not subjected to attacks, said ISKCON Kolkata vice president Radharamn Das. A 200-strong mob vandalised ISKCON temple in Dhaka on 17 March

TMC slams Centre over ineffective role in Bangladesh communal violence; calls it 'mute spectator'

Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said that the party wants the safety of minorities in both India and Bangladesh

#TheWeekThatWas | The status of women in Indian judiciary

According to a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, there are only two women judges in the Supreme Court and 78 in various high courts of the country.

Cow vigilantism, deconstructed: What Gau Premi, a new documentary, found by trailing a group of 'rakshaks' in Gujarat

Gau Premi, shot in Gujarat’s Rajkot, captures how cow vigilantes prowl the streets at night in coordinated attempts to catch ‘smugglers’. They see themselves as eradicating a societal “disease”.

Lin-Manuel Miranda weighs on Hamilton release on Disney+, and Donald Trump's criticism of Broadway show

Hamilton is a Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, which talks about American history and identity, slavery and immigration.

As #PublishingPaidMe trends, authors share race-based pay gap and publishers vow to improve diversity

Using #PublishingPaidMe authors and book publishing employees are speaking out against the homogeneity of their industry and how much writers of colour are paid, issues that are gaining urgency as protests against systemic racism continue around the US.

Before the USCIRF gets trigger-happy in condemning India's treatment of minority communities, it would do well to peek into its own hate-filled backyard

The Union government has done well to dismiss the conclusions of the USCIRF, given the track record of the United States in treating its own minorities

Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu says secularism ingrained in every Indian, minorities more secure here than in other countries

Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said secularism is in the blood and veins of every Indian and minorities are more secure in India than in any other country even as he asked some countries to refrain from advising India on its internal affairs.

NRC in Assam ‘targeting religious minorities, rendering Muslims stateless’, says US commission on religious freedom

Prepared by policy analyst Harrison Akins, USCIRF alleged that following August 2019 release of NRC, BJP government has taken steps that 'reflect an anti-Muslim bias'

'There are over 16 crore Muslims, why are they scared, other minorities aren't,' asks RSS leader Krishna Gopal

Gopal said all other minorities which are lesser in number compared to Muslims feel secure in India