Ram Navami

Madhya Pradesh: Curfew relaxed for 11 hours in Khargone, petrol pumps allowed to open

Earlier, on Tuesday, there was a curfew in place for 24 hours and citizens were asked to celebrate the Eid-al-Fitr and Akshaya Tritiya festivals at home.

Right Word | Banna, Qutb, Maududi: Three keys to understanding Islamist violence from Jahangirpuri to Stockholm

The ideological foundation for the fanatic and violent identity politics of Islamists was laid down by Hassan al Banna, Sayyid Qutb and Maulana Abul Ala Maududi in the 20th century

Khargone violence: Madhya Pradesh HC seeks state govt's reply on demolition of restaurant, bakery

Restauranteur Ateeq Ali, 36, and bakery owner Amjad Rashid, 58, have claimed in their petitions that the Khargone administration had taken an "arbitrary" and "illegal" action to bulldoze their properties without hearing them out

Supreme Court dismisses plea seeking judicial inquiry into Ram Navami, Hanuman Jayanti violence

A Bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao dismissed the plea asking the lawyer not to ask for reliefs which cannot be granted by the court

From 1921 Moplah genocide to 2022 Delhi riots: Why anti-Hindu violence has been a norm in India

Credible reports, including the CCTV footage, show that the weapons were distributed one day before the attack on the Hindu procession was carried out in Delhi early this month

What is Ilhan Omar’s visit to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir trying to hide?

Omar’s PoK visit and meeting with former Pakistan PM Imran Khan is so problematic that the US had to officially announce it was an unofficial personal visit and it did not represent any policy change on behalf of the US government

How communal flare-up in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri exposes liberal, intellectual and even political ineptitude

Riots take place when an ideology believes in its exclusivity; their frequency increases when others, in reaction, too start asserting themselves. Such flare-ups also happen when perpetrators believe they can get away with such crimes

Ram Navami to Hanuman Jayanti: Here’s why Hindu festivals face wave of attacks

After the advent of Narendra Modi in 2014, with a resurgence of Hindu nationalism, the attacks on Hindu festivals have become a lot more orchestrated and at different levels

Right Word | How illiberal liberalists killed liberalism in India: JNU as a classic case study

Those who blow the trumpet of ‘progressiveness’ and wear it up on their sleeves on the JNU campus, mostly support illiberal causes

Ram Navami violence: Why does a Hindu festival anger Muslim fundamentalists?

The rise, revival and renaissance of Hinduism is likely to unnerve the fundamentalists of Abrahamic faiths, especially the Islamists