Rush Hour podcast: No permission for Hindutva mahapanchayat in Uttarkashi

In today’s edition, a hijab controversy has led to an arrest of a school principal and two others in Madhya Pradesh, a Muslim man has died in Maharashtra after being assaulted by cow vigilantes and the Uttarakhand administration has refused to allow a mahapanchayat called by Hindutva group in Uttarkashi.

Scripted and hosted by Aena, produced and edited by Avinash Kumar.

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References

• Armed gangs and a partisan state: How Manipur slipped into civil war
• What the opposition to the hijab says about Indian secularism and the sidelining of Muslim identity
• The India Fix: From arrests to defections, it’s not easy being the Opposition in India today