This month has been a roller coaster for anyone watching the human rights situation in India. While the rightwing Hindutva party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been in power in …
Nazi Germany and Hindutva India: A Fascist Road to Ethnic Purity
In the summer of 2019, Tabrez Ansari, a 24-year-old Muslim man in the Jharkhand state of India, was accused of stealing a motorbike by a Hindu mob. Ansari was tied …
The Challenge of Hindutva for Indian and American Muslims
India’s ruling party, BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), espouses an ultranationalist and supremacist ideology known as Hindutva. This virulent ideology (distinct from the religion of Hinduism) seeks to expand the existing …
The Cry for Justice in Bhagalpur
That it took India several months to fathom the depths of anti-Muslim bestiality in Bhagalpur tells something important about its attitude towards the country’s largest religious minority. Although some estimates …
Bestiality in India
• Over 1,500 Muslims massacred by Hindus. • Official complicity in the genocide • Coverup reported, full investigation unlikely. Months after more than 1,500 Muslims were massacred in the Indian …
India: The Task Before the New Government
An important task for the new government in New Delhi, led by Prime Minister V.P. Singh, is to restore minority confidence in a Hindu majority country. Now that Rajiv Gandhi …