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US-based Hindu Group Backs Anti-Hindutva Conference
09 Oct 2021
HfHR wrote a letter to US department of education opposing the mischaracterisation of the conference.
Haritima Kavia
The Indian Judiciary and Its Not So Holier-Than-Cow Verdicts
19 Sep 2021
In recent years, there have been increased instances of cows being granted reverence in judicial pronouncements.
S.N. Sahu
Secularism and Democracy Requires the Power of Truth, Not Any Religion, to Survive
02 Sep 2021
Exposing the hollowness of the claim by Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janta Party leader Nitin Patel that secularism in India wouldn’t survive without its Hindu majority.
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700 Academics Condemn Attacks on ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ Conference
01 Sep 2021
Letter of support says Hindutva affiliates are trying to smear the conference as Hinduphobic.
Braj Ranjan Mani
Gail Omvedt was a Champion of Dalit-Bahujan Rights
30 Aug 2021
Gail Omvedt’s life and work was oriented to emancipate Dalits, Adivasis, OBCs, poor farming communities, religious minorities and women, who have experienced the consequences of India’s partial and…
Kashif Kakvi
MP: Article on Secularism with Reference to Vedas, Jesus Lands Educationist in Jail
08 Apr 2021
The educationist has been arrested on a complaint by a self-proclaimed RSS follower who alleged the article outraged his religious feelings.
Aaquib Khan
‘Indian Liberalism is a Myth and Muslims Became its Mascot’—Sanjay Srivastava
19 Mar 2021
Many Indians who have turned to the Hindu Right earlier were seen as ‘liberal’. To them, if India is synonymous with liberalism, so is Hinduism with secularism.
Mukulika R, Wendy Doniger
Hindutva, Counter-Culture and Manusmriti
21 Feb 2021
In this interview with Mukulika R, she explains what caught her interest in India as a child, growing up in America during the McCarthyite era, dissent in India today and more.
PTI
UP Governor Clears Ordinance Aimed at Discouraging Inter-Religion Marriage
28 Nov 2020
In recent weeks, BJP-run states like UP, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh announced plans to enact laws to counter alleged attempts to convert Hindu women to Islam in the ‘guise’ of marriage.
Githa Hariharan, Nayantara Sahgal
The Glittering Aspiration that was India
05 Oct 2020
On the 151st birth anniversary of Gandhi, we present a conversation between writers Githa Hariharan and Nayantara Sahgal about the "glittering aspiration" that was India.