Hanuman Chalisa will be played outside mosques till loudspeakers are removed, says Raj Thackeray

Over 250 members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena have been detained across the state for playing the Hindu hymn on loudspeakers outside mosques.

Scroll Staff

· May 04, 2022 · 01:51 pm

Play Hanuman Chalisa if mosques use loudspeakers on Wednesday, Raj Thackeray tells Hindus

The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief made the appeal hours after he was booked by the Maharashtra Police for delivering a provocative speech in Aurangabad.

Scroll Staff

· May 03, 2022 · 11:11 pm

Why the Aam Aadmi Party is not a real alternative to the BJP

More than a political alternative, India needs an antidote to communal poison. Arvind Kejriwal has not demonstrated the will to take the saffron party head-on.

Vivek Deshpande

· Mar 16, 2022 · 07:30 am

Three Christmas attacks in India where the police failed to act against Hindutva mobs

Scroll.in tracked three incidents in Bihar, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh that did not even make it to the news.

Aishwarya Iyer

· Dec 31, 2021 · 02:30 pm

‘There will be no Adivasis left’: The false claims that are driving attacks on Christians in MP

The Adivasi community has long been riven by conflict over religious conversions. The new BJP government has weaponised the old discord.

Aishwarya Iyer

· Dec 29, 2021 · 09:00 am

Declare India as a Hindu nation or I will kill myself, seer in Ayodhya tells Centre

The police have placed Paramhans Acharya Maharaj under house arrest in Uttar Pradesh.

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· Oct 02, 2021 · 09:23 pm

The rise of Political Sufism poses a threat to liberal politics in both India and Pakistan

Sufism has been noted for its pacifism and otherworldliness. Two political parties on either side of the border undermine that image.

Faisal CK

· May 15, 2021 · 07:30 am

Why the BJP chose to attack the DMK as ‘anti-Hindu’ instead of calling it ‘pseudo-secular’

However, the BJP seems oblivious of the fact that the Dravidian party has managed to alter the discourse of religion and secularism in the Tamil public sphere.

T Kannan

· Apr 25, 2021 · 03:30 pm

In Chandni Chowk, a temple resurfaces after it was demolished on court orders

The legality of the new temple structure remains in question. But that hasn’t stopped politicians from patronising it.

Vijayta Lalwani

· Feb 28, 2021 · 09:00 am

Apoorvanand: By playing Hindutva politics, AAP is stirring up trouble

AAP has, however, now decided that it was not enough to merely look Hindu. It seeks to replace the BJP by dipping into its poisonous Hindutva lexicon.

Apoorvanand

· Feb 16, 2021 · 09:30 am

Why Vivekananda would have opposed any Ramakrishna Mission collaboration with the BJP

The notion of religious pluralism espoused by the organisation’s founder stands in contrast to the sectarianism of Hindutva politics.

Mahitosh Mandal

· Sep 21, 2020 · 09:00 am

Rajnath Singh says mass conversions are a matter of concern

The home minister said there were attempts to instil fear among people, but the BJP wanted to run the country with a sense of confidence among people.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 16, 2019 · 08:45 am