Modi goes secular? BJP’s minimum outreach to Muslims is causing heartburn among party’s supporters

This highlights how the BJP’s social media support base is now trying to directly influence the party’s policies – a unique model of doing politics in India

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jul 28, 2019 · 09:00 am

‘How can a man who protects cows make bombs?’: Mumbai terror suspect’s community rallies in support

Hundreds of people gathered outside Vaibhav Raut’s home in North Mumbai to plan a campaign to demand his release.

Mridula Chari

· Aug 13, 2018 · 01:11 pm

Anatomy of AMU attack: Why Aligarh’s Hindutva groups are rankled by the university

Primarily because it is identified with Muslims.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· May 13, 2018 · 09:00 am

Deendayal Upadhyay’s photo appears on HRD minister’s letterhead: The Telegraph

A letter from Prakash Javadekar to university vice chancellors, dated October 25, shows the picture just below the national emblem.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 31, 2017 · 10:24 am

India belongs to Hindus first, others later, says Shiv Sena in Saamana editorial

The party made the statement in response to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks that India was a country of Hindus, but that it belonged to others as well.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 30, 2017 · 01:48 pm

Land of Hindus? Mohan Bhagwat, Narendra Modi and the Sangh Parivar are using ‘Hindustan’ all wrong

Not only is it not the official name of the country, it doesn't mean what they think it does. Even worse: it's a Persian word.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Oct 30, 2017 · 06:30 am

‘I’m tired of arguing with people’: Humans of Hindutva Facebook parody page bids farewell

In his last post, the administrator said ‘explaining the intention behind my words’ for the past five months had been exhausting.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 09, 2017 · 09:08 am

Blood nationalism: Why does Hindutva perceive a mortal danger from the Aryan Migration Theory?

In its racial view of nationalism, any hint of foreignness is a fatal flaw that erases the difference between Hindus, Muslims and Christians.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jun 27, 2017 · 10:30 am

From Sanskrit to energy security, new ICSSR head is ‘the man who knows about everything’

Braj Bihari Kumar, a 76-year-old intellectual warrior of Hindu nationalism, was appointed chief of Indian Council for Social Science Research on May 2.

Anjali Mody

· May 14, 2017 · 08:00 am

RSS’ grand plan to help Indians bear fair, bespoke babies exposes Hindutva’s obsession with race

Nineteenth-century ideas of race from Europe are still a part of the Sangh Parivar’s thinking in India.

Shoaib Daniyal

· May 08, 2017 · 08:00 am

With Yogi Adityanath as CM, BJP could alienate the new supporters who brought it victory in UP

The party had dismantled conventional identity-based voter alliances to win broad-based support in the state.

DL Sheth

· Mar 24, 2017 · 08:00 am

Are Hindutva and Indianness the same thing? The Supreme Court will consider this today

In 1996, the court held that canvassing for votes in the name of Hinduism or calling for a Hindu rashtra was not an appeal to religion.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Oct 18, 2016 · 08:00 am