The Latest Breaking News from Hindutva

The Delhi Police has informed a Delhi court that journalist Rana Ayyub’s tweets on Hindu deities and Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, for which she was booked in January, are no longer available on X, Bar and Bench reported.  

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by retired Brigadier Kuldip Singh. In this tense news week, we begin by dissecting India’s Operation Sindoor and strikes on terror camps in Pakistan on May 7. “Neither side, particularly India, wants…

A woman is forced to sign a blank paper. A trader is threatened for money. Cops record videos as two people get beaten up. The list goes on in Indore, where the influence of Hindutva outfits over institutions has grown larger over the years. At the receiving end are the…

It took Madhya Pradesh police three days to file an FIR against purported Hindutva groups who had allegedly attacked two Catholic priests in Jabalpur on Monday. No arrests have been made in the case so far. 

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by TNM’s executive editor Sudipto Mondal and senior journalist K Venkataramanan to discuss the union government withholding education funds from Tamil Nadu over the three-language policy and what it signals about its control over…

The attack followed a controversial speech by removed former PM Sheikh Hasina, Rahman’s daughter, from exile in India.

Prabowo Subianto may have intended it to be just an ice-breaker, but he waded right into a hot button political topic for his hosts with his declaration that a DNA test had shown him to have traces of “Indian ancestry”. In doing so, he also showed a mirror to India. 

The ‘manosphere’ and Hindu nationalism were also identified by report commissioned after last summer’s riots

Muslims in Delhi have largely thrown their weight behind the AAP in the last two assembly elections. But the party’s soft Hindutva, its positions on the NRC-CAA protests and the Tablighi Jamaat-Covid controversy, the Delhi riots, and issues of development have triggered disenchantment within sections of the community.