Hindutva

Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, expressed resentment against making students chant bhajans and asking them to perform ‘surya namaskar’ in schools. MMU, an association of around 30 Islamic religious and educational organisations in Kashmir, seeked for the ban of such impositions, stating that it is hurting the religious sentiments of Muslim students. Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti also commented on it, calling… read-more

A police complaint was filed in Jaipur, against the Former Congress Minister Salman Khurshid over his controversial book 'Sunrise over Ayodhya-Nationhood in our times'. As per reports, the complaint was filed by advocate Bharat Sharma under sections 153 and 295 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). "While reading a newspaper, I got to know that Salman Khurshid, in his book, has compared Hindutva with terrorists", he said in a statement 

Scholarly debates on India and Hinduism that are nuanced, rigorous, and respectful of reasonable dissent are sometimes replaced by polemics, tendentiousness, and bad faith in certain academic circles. A group of academics, are particularly concerned about aggravation of this tendency through impending Dismantling-Global-Hindutva (DGH) conference, which appears to have support of over forty academic-institutions. Taking place digitally from 10… read-more

Acting on a complaint by Hindu Rakshak Sanstha, the Indore police have arrested five stand-up comedians while performing at a cafe for New Year's event. Reportedly, they were charged for allegedly insulting Hindu culture and for mocking Home Minister Amit Shah. The comics have been charged under IPC Sections 295-A, 298, 269,188 and 34. Moreover, a video of the complainants manhandling the comics have gone viral on social media