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Samar Halarnkar
Samar Halarnkar is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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Turning India over to the mob, video by video
The latest recorded atrocities against India’s minorities are the natural consequences of ceding the state to the mob.
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The mass radicalisation that India does not acknowledge
The persecution of Muslims is rooted in growing bigotry within Hindu society and its normalisation in politics, judiciary and police.
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‘A life of principle, integrity and dignity’: A son’s tribute to his policeman father PG Halarnkar
The former Bengaluru city police commissioner and Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force passed away on January 2.
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Trending
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At what age are people usually happiest? Here’s what a new study found
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Scania audit confirms Nitin Gadkari received luxury bus from Swedish firm for personal use: Reports
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As the dead pile up in Gujarat, the state’s media is on a warpath with the government over Covid-19
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India played down new mutant Covid strains to avoid panic – but this may have backfired
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Egypt seizes Ever Given with 25-member Indian crew, demands $900 million compensation
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India accelerates its age of ecological annihilation
By destroying its last wild areas, India is endangering the future of its people, forests and water sources to deliver questionable, short-term gains to a few.
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The widening war against India’s women journalists
As the Opposition withers away during the pandemic, online attacks intensify against journalists from trolls linked to India’s ruling party.
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The twilight of Indian democracy
Protest and journalism are criminal acts, Parliament is irrelevant, duties supersede rights,and profanity flows from the ordinary.
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Video
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Watch: In Gujarat, hospital conducts religious rituals as cases of Covid-19 shoot up
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Watch: CEO Dan Price was mocked for raising minimum wages in 2015. His company is thriving today
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Watch Trevor Noah on policeman shooting Daunte Wright: ‘Is that supposed to be a legitimate excuse?’
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Watch: Singer Demi Lavato recreates her near-death drug overdose experience in latest music video
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Bihar: Covid-19 patient dies outside Nalanda hospital, doctors wait to welcome health minister
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FIR 59/20 and the dark contours of India’s emerging, new republic
The Hindu-Rashtra strategy is leery of reason, hostile to minorities, benevolent to misinformation, manipulative of law and derisive of science.
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Narendra Modi is adopting the wrong lessons of history
All leaders lie and make mistakes. Great leaders use lies to build consensus, they learn from mistakes and they learn to compromise. Modi should too.
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Smoke, mirrors and Modi: A grand illusion of governance
Emotion and grand political statements may normally distract and attract voters. In a crisis, they are poor substitutes for governance.
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The Reel
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In ‘Launchpad’ on Disney+ Hotstar, six short films by new filmmakers
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‘F9’ trailer: Vin Diesel takes on John Cena in latest Fast & Furious saga
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‘Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, Salma Hayek in action comedy
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‘Army of the Dead’ trailer: In Zack Snyder movie, a heist in the middle of a zombie outbreak
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In documentary series ‘My Love’, an Indian farming couple reveal the secrets of a long marriage
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Why the slow drip of anti-Muslim poison in India is now a flood
For vast swathes of Hindu society, the pandemic is a convenient staging point on the route to the marginalisation of Muslim India.
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The privileges of being Hindu in new India
They will not make me prove my allegiance – and then refuse it, whether I fly the flag, recite the Constitution, sing the anthem or die for my country.
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The BJP’s perilous descent from Hindu appeasement to incitement
Ministers deliver hate speech, police take their cues and goons are empowered to transition from social-media rage to street violence.
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The Field
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SRH v RCB, match report: David Warner’s men grab defeat from the jaws of victory
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Cricket: Babar Azam hits 122 as Pakistan defeat South Africa by nine wickets
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IPL 2021: DC await Nortje, Rabada’s second RT-PCR test results; both likely to miss game against RR
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21 at women’s national boxing camp, including top coaches, test positive for Covid-19
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IPL 2021, SRH vs RCB, as it happened: Hyderabad suffer dramatic collapse as Bangalore win by 6 runs