Tag: Gujarat
Unholy Godmen: Asaram Babu rape conviction highlights abuse of religious sentiments
News Analysis | An Indian court has found Asaram Bapu, a spiritual leader who has founded hundreds of ashrams in India, guilty of raping a...
Hindu group disrupts Muslim prayers in a viral video
News Analysis | In a viral social media video, a group of Hindus can be seen disrupting a Muslim congregational prayer. Despite the pleas of...
A Cashless Society? Indian ATMs face cash shortages
New Analysis | India’s cash machines are running dry as the country suffers a shortage of banknotes. The shortage has occurred less than 18 months...
Modi’s Success in Bringing Hindutva Template into Indian Politics
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | For most festivals in South Asia, preparations begin early. Indians like to term elections as festivals of democracy. India is a land...
11-year-old girl gives birth in India after being raped by six...
News Analysis | An 11-year-old girl has given birth in India after allegedly being repeatedly raped by six men. The incident highlights the predicament of...
Imran Khan escapes another shoe attack in Gujrat
News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan narrowly escaped another shoe attack while addressing a rally, on Tuesday evening in Gujarat. A shoe which was apparently aimed at Imran Khan...
‘Padmaavat’ opens in India despite brutal protests by radical groups
AFP | Thousands of police in riot gear guarded cinemas across India on Thursday amid threats of violence by Hindu hardliners opposed to the release of a...
Hundreds go on rampage against ‘Padmaavat’
AFP | Hundreds of protesters went on a rampage vandalising malls and torching cars in the Indian city of Ahmedabad in a bid to stop...
Former Indian Occupied Kashmir Chief Minister denies Modi’s claims
News Analysis | National Conference (NC) leader Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday dismissed allegations that the Congress colluded with Pakistan to defeat the BJP in the...
Gujarat Elections 2017: BJP wins but loses in public eye
News Analysis | The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will retain power in Gujarat for a sixth straight term, after it just about edged past the...
Indian Democracy at Crossroads
Sanjay Kumar | Inaugurating a newly built dam in 1954, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru christened it as the “temple of modern India”. Nehru,...
Modi’s new anti-Pakistan allegation in Gujarat campaign shows insecurity
News Analysis | The latest claims by Indian Prime Minister Narendar Modi have been that his main political rival, the Indian National Congress, was colluding...
Modi faces toughest election test in 2019
Reuters | Tens of thousands of Indians voted in the first stage of assembly elections in the western state of Gujarat on Saturday, where Prime...
India’s Identity Under Modi’s Shadow
Maham Gillani | Identity is the “understanding of self in relation to the other. ”Identity is a product of a number of factors that include...
Muslims joining BJP: A marriage of convenience?
News Analysis | The Muslim community of India’s Gujarat state appears to be joining the ruling BJP in droves for the upcoming state elections. The...
Are Hindu women being radicalized by RSS?
News Analysis | The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has dismissed reports that quoted its chief spokesperson (Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh) Manmohan Vaidya as saying that...
Who set fire to the Hindu pilgrim train in Godhra?
News Analysis | An Indian court has commuted the death sentences of 11 people convicted for their part in one of the many deadly riots...
Pakistan strikes back at saffron terror: Khwaja Asif terms Modi a...
News Analysis | Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif, in an interview on Monday, termed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "terrorist" and said the Indian government...
Is lynching the new normal in India?
Outraged by the rising number of targeted lynchings against Muslims in India, thousands of people took to the streets in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai,...
Gujarat Law Minister: ”anyone who doesn’t spare cow, the government will...
Gujarat, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state, has increased the punishment for slaughtering cow from seven years imprisonment to life sentences. Gujarat's state assembly...
