Islamophobia

Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque placed on Ayodhya template

Recently, a court ordered the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to survey Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque compound to check whether it…

A year apart, Tablighi Jamaat and Mahakumbh: Two religions two approaches

A year ago, the corporate-controlled mainstream press and India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a synchronised Islamophobic campaign blaming…

The “Rohingya infiltrators” bogey: The BJP’s old strategy in the 2021 assembly polls

As the campaigning for the assembly elections in Assam and West Bengal is at the peak after the first two…

Nandigram polls: Where Suvendu Adhikari becomes Bengal’s Kapil Mishra

History repeats itself. But on different notes at different points in time. The campaign wrapped up by the Bharatiya Janata…

Arnab Goswami’s Republic Bangla and the ECI collude to promote BJP in Bengal

There are two entities that have joined hands to help the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sweep the 2021 West Bengal…

Exclusion of Muslim women writers in West Bengal’s textbooks

The history that we read is not the history of the subaltern. On International Women’s Day, amid the hullabaloo of…

Bengali Bhadralok’s “secular” Islamophobia manifested in anti-Abbas Siddique slurs

The social media is overflowing with the content posted by the so-called liberals, the Bengali upper-caste ‘Bhadralok’, criticising the electoral…

Modi’s support to Macron isn’t merely over Islamophobia but Rafale Jet scam and more

Soon after a rift appeared between the Muslim countries of the world and France over the latter’s thrusting of Islamophobic…

Six years, six months of Modi’s rule: Deception, disruption and destruction

The International Monetary Fund, in its world economic report released on October 14th 2020, noted that India’s GDP growth for…

Charlie Hebdo, hate speech and the freedom of speech from an artist’s lens

Did the Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists ever draw French President Emmanuel Macron eating up people’s food? Why didn’t their art depict…

Why resisting Islamophobia has become important at this hour?

In the wake of a gruesome murder of a French high school teacher perpetrated by a bigoted Muslim of Chechen…

Accusation, demise and Islamophobia: Social media on the last Wednesday of April

India and the entire world lost a powerhouse of talent this Wednesday, April 29th. With the news of acclaimed actor…

Naqvi’s “heaven for Muslims” is actually worse than hell

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Shahnawaz Hussain are the only two leaders with a Muslim name at the higher echelon of…

Arnab Goswami’s howling over freedom of speech got irony a heart attack

Irony never stops amusing onlookers. What can one say when Arnab Goswami, the notorious and boisterous Hindutva fascist klaxon, who…

Islamophobic propaganda over COVID-19 outbreak got a new dimension

Islamophobic propaganda through vitriolic bush telegraphs and systematic demonisation of the Indian Muslim community will remain Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…

The Tablighi Jamaat fiasco helping Indian state to officially peddle Islamophobia

The fiasco over the congregation Tablighi Jamaat group’s congregation at Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz from March 13th to March 15th 2020,…

The Delhi Police’s nexus with Hindutva is the new normal

The Delhi Police is accused of acting as a semi-official outfit of the Hindutva fascist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and…

Kashmiri couple’s arrest by Delhi Police’s Special Cell raises old doubts

On Sunday, March 8 2020, the Delhi Police’s notorious Special Cell arrested a Kashmiri couple from south-east Delhi’s Jamia Nagar…

The Hindi cinema and the rich man’s visceral Islamophobia

We are seeing today the majority of Indians are talking about peaceable movements. From the gathering of Shaheen Bagh, Delhi,…

The Supreme Court’s CAA hearing won’t impact the grassroots struggles

There are a large number of people who have been pinning their hopes on the Supreme Court to quash the…
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