カテゴリー: Hinduism
Allegations mount that police in Indian capital incited and aided recent mob violence and failed to help Muslim victims On one side of the marketplace, it was carnage. As the Hindu mob descended, Muslim-owned stalls selling car parts were slowly reduce…
One week after the Indian capital’s worst religious violence in years, displaced Muslims describe losing everythingAs Mohammad Arshad’s body was brought into the courtyard, his lifeless face covered in a white shroud, the wailing began. The 22-year-old…
Violence in India’s capital has left more than 40 dead and hundreds injured after a Hindu nationalist rampage, stoked by the rhetoric of Narendra Modi’s populist governmentHe lay in a bloodied ball on the floor, but the baton blows kept on coming. As t…
Blame the poisonous ideology of the Hindu nationalist BJP for the blood on India’s streetsIn August 1958, gangs of white youths began systematically attacking West Indians in London’s Notting Hill, assaulting them with iron bars and meat cleavers and m…
Two dozen people have died and hundreds have been injured in India’s capital. The prime minister talks of peace and brotherhood, but he has led his country hereAs shocking as the outburst of hatred in Delhi has been, with the deadliest religious violen…
Clashes have been driven by a ruling party intent on painting its largely peaceful opponents as seditious sectariansSince Sunday violent mobs in north-east Delhi have killed 21 people including a police constable, injured hundreds of others, burned mot…
For seven decades, India has been held together by its constitution, which promises equality to all. But Narendra Modi’s BJP is remaking the nation into one where some people count as more Indian than others. By Samanth SubramanianSoon after the violen…
Authorities say move was to ‘seek blessings’ for train taking people to pilgrimage sitesIndian rail authorities allocated a berth on a train on Sunday for the Hindu god Shiva, raising eyebrows in a country led by Narendra Modi’s hardline Hindu national…
Curator assures the public that stereotype-busting show will not include Sting or Kama SutraForget “no sex please, we’re British”. More a case of “there will be lots of sex, we’re the British Museum”. But the curator has assured the public the first ma…
The backlash against the Citizenship Amendment Act shows that Indians will not accept the party’s distorted vision for their countryHuge nationwide protests, involving people of various religions, professions, castes and classes, such as haven’t been s…
PM denies law is anti-Muslim as police clash with demonstrators across IndiaClashes have continued between Indian police and protesters angered by a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims, as the prime minister, Narendra Modi, used a rally for his H…
Critics say Narendra Modi’s Citizenship Amendment Act ‘has declared war on Muslims’Authorities have imposed an emergency law banning large gatherings in parts of India’s capital, Delhi, as nationwide protests escalated, injuring police and demonstrator…
Anger grows across country at new law which denies citizenship to Muslim migrantsStudents in Delhi have condemned their “barbaric” treatment at the hands of police who stormed a peaceful protest against the new citizenship bill over the weekend, injuri…
Protests spread to Delhi as BJP government accused of making Muslims second-class citizens Violent clashes erupted in Delhi amid allegations a new citizenship bill discriminates against Muslims and undermines the secular foundations of India, with prot…
In response to a report that a Hindu guru had a established his own island off the coast of Ecuador, Ambassador Jaime Marchan Romero clarifies that no individual would ever be allowed to annex off land from a sovereign stateWith regard to your report o…