Now Streaming: “Love Jihad” on Netflix
Until now, Netflix was a tech company that did not have to address issues related to extremism on its platform. That changed this week with a police case filed against…
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“#CoronaJihad”: How the Far-Right in India is Responding to the Pandemic
A number of far-right extremists have recently taken to social media platforms to spread conspiratorial content about COVID-19. Such conspiracy theories range from the virus being a biological weapon created…
Far-Right Terrorism is Global, but Coverage is Not: Hindu Nationalist Violence in India
Last week brought news of a tragic event in Germany with a right-wing terrorist attack in the city of Hanau. Much media coverage and scholarly commentary has been devoted towards…
Why are British Indians more likely than other ethnic minority group to support Brexit?
Last month saw more than 900 million eligible voters at the ballot box in the world’s largest democracy. India’s national election once again resulted in the landslide victory of Prime…
What Is Behind India’s Politics of Renaming?
The movement to change India’s national symbolism under the BJP deliberately targets the principal ideas underpinning the vision of India as a secular state. On October 16, 2018, Swami Adityanand,…
The Hindu Right’s War on Women
The right-wing promise to protect “Hindu traditions” offers shelter to male constituencies troubled by the apparent threat of women’s professional and sexual independence in modern India. In his savage book, Capital:…
Scientifically Protecting Cows: Hindutva’s Fascination With Cattle Science
It is possible for one to accept the scientific benefits of cow-dung as an alternative energy source in agricultural communities. But, when one hears a self-styled cow protector proudly say,…
The Hindu Right in India, Lynchings and ‘Alternative Truth’
In the late evening of 28 September 2015, in Bisara village near the town of Dadri, just 50 kilometres from Delhi, an angry mob of over 100 people, approached the…