The controversial film championed by the BJP is an Islamophobic fantasyTwo weeks after I was born in the curfewed town of Aligarh, in Uttar Pradesh, the Aligarh riots of 1990 broke out. What began as skirmishes exploded into widespread bloodletting aft…
続きを読むDifferent faiths were once able to celebrate together in Karnataka. Now Hindu vigilante groups are targeting those who don’t share their beliefsFor 800 years, Bappanadu Sri Durgaparameshwari temple had stood as a symbol of India’s cohesive religious pa…
続きを読むSingh surrendered in Punjab town of Moga, says a Sikh leader, as police appeal to public for calmIndian police have arrested a separatist leader who revived calls for an independent Sikh homeland and the secession of India’s northern Punjab state, whic…
続きを読むAs his country overtakes China as the world’s most populous, Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is escalating its attack on civil rightsIndia has many things going for it these days but the growing authoritarianism of prime minister Narendra …
続きを読むInteraction at temple in India seen in video that has gone viral condemned as ‘inappropriate’ and ‘scandalous’The Dalai Lama has apologised after he faced allegations of inappropriate behaviour after kissing a young boy on the lips and asking him to “s…
続きを読むTourists gather in Philippines for cross nailings north of Manila despite church leaders frowning upon the traditionEight Filipinos have been nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of …
続きを読むReferences to Muslim rulers, deadly riots connected to PM and Gandhi’s dislike of Hindu nationalism removedThe Indian government has been accused of rewriting history to fit its Hindu nationalist agenda after school textbooks were edited to remove refe…
続きを読むMatiullah Wesa, head of Pen Path, beaten and arrested outside a mosque after prayersThe founder of a project that campaigned for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the UN have said.The Tal…
続きを読むNisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delhi riots. But when he became a witness in court cases against the alleged perpetrators, he realised that was only the start of his troublesArchive: The Guardian Continue reading…
続きを読むShutdown imposed as part of search for Amritpal Singh Sandhu, accused of disrupting communal harmonyEconomic life in the north Indian state of Punjab has been paralysed by an internet shutdown, affecting 30 million people, imposed as part of a huge man…
続きを読むTemple in Taipei is believed to be the only Taoist site set up to revere rabbit god Tu’er Shen, a significant symbol for LGBTQI people in Taiwan and ChinaDuring a quiet mid-week afternoon on the eighth floor of an office building, A-wei is meditatively…
続きを読むNisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delhi riots. But when he became a witness in court cases against the alleged perpetrators, he realised that was only the start of his troublesThis is how Nisar Ahmed remembers it. On 24 February 2020, at about three…
続きを読むThe prime minister’s cynical raids on the BBC are the latest populist clampdown on a press and broadcasting ‘elite’In January, the BBC broadcast a two-part series, India: The Modi Question, which looked forensically at the role of Narendra Modi in fome…
続きを読むKilling is latest in string of mob attacks against people accused of blasphemy in Muslim-majority south Asian countryA mob in eastern Pakistan stormed a police station on Saturday and snatched a Muslim man accused of blasphemy from police custody and l…
続きを読むThe Indian prime minister’s attempts to suppress a critical BBC documentary show how sensitive he is to his international reputationThe clue to the Indian government’s thin-skinned response to the BBC’s two-part documentary, India: The Modi Question, i…
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