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From official history to popular culture, the Hindutva investment in remaking the past has been all too visible over the last decade. And this attempt to dominate history has opened new flashpoints, such as the one linked to the Battle of Bhima Koregaon.

Whenever mainstream politicians begin to mutter about infiltrators, fifth columnists and failed assimilation, that smell of sulphur is fascism in the air

Farooq said that "BJP is trying to defame NC, but we will emerge victorious in the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and change the lives of the people". Read further on Dynamite News:

On July 28, 2012, Hindu Jagarana Vedike members assaulted 13 youth and molested women at a homestay in Karnataka’s Mangaluru. The assault, caught on video, led to national outrage and protests. This came after a series of similar incidents, including the 2009 Mangaluru pub attack.    

The big story of the week was the controversy gripping a Netflix series documenting the 1999 hijack of Indian Airlines flight IC 814. The right-wing and our Godi anchors were upset that two of the hijackers had Hindu code-names. Of course, that actually happened, but their qualm was that people…

Press freedom is in crisis in the "world's largest democracy" with attacks against journalists, concentration of media ownership, pro-government bias and expulsions of foreign reporters. Since India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, several mainstream Indian TV channels have effectively turned into government mouthpieces.

The Hindu has reportedly redacted a report about Justice Atul Sreedharan going on leave purportedly after the transfer of NIA Act cases and habeas corpus matters from his bench, after the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court took “serious exception” to the report, Bar and Bench reported. 

Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their one-way pilgrimage to death will deliver everlasting peace.

Astronomers combed through an ancient Hindu text and discovered that it referenced a total solar eclipse that occurred roughly 6,000 years ago, making it the oldest known mention of an eclipse.

Four weeks after ex-premier Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh by helicopter during a student-led revolution, analysts say she has become a diplomatic headache for her hosts in India.

Explore the complexities of Usha Vance's Hindu background and interfaith marriage in the political landscape.