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Published in: openIndiaIndia’s Supreme Court rules that Hindu temple may rise from mosque’s rubble
The court says that a Hindu mob broke the law when it demolished a 500-year-old mosque – but Hindus can now build a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe anti-Labour plot to polarise Hindus over Kashmir
A campaign for the hearts and minds of British Hindus is pushing them to the Tories – and it’s dividing British...
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Published in: openIndia: OpinionA fine day out in Houston with Trump and Modi
Self-interest multiplied by mutual admiration made for a triumphal rally when the US president and India’s prime...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKConcerns over ‘foreign interference’ as India-linked Hindu nationalist group targets Labour candidates
Campaigners linked to Indian prime minister Modi’s BJP say they’re targeting 48 Labour-Tory marginals, also...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesWe don’t need no education? – informing the misinformed
To know that information is false, you need to dedicate time and effort to verify things. Would you have the time,...
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Published in: Home“No one is too young to make a difference”: stories from the global climate strike
Young people recount how they protested, in the face of poverty, conflict and toxic air pollution, for action on...
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Published in: HomeLetter from London: India next for ISIS
A young follower sees Western policy recruiting the dispossessed from West Africa to India, in the latest of a...
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Published in: Frontline InsightsIndia’s mass movements thrive close to the ground while the state cracks down on dissent
Law, police and ideology are all targeting those claiming social, economic and political rights in India. But groups...
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Published in: 50.50Meet the journalist documenting India’s unreported rape cases
Priyanka Dubey has reported on gender-based violence for years. Her new book is out in the UK and US on 8 March,...
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Published in: HomeStalemate for Trump and Kim, as India and Pakistan risk nuclear war over Kashmir
Through aggressive rhetoric and miscalculations nuclear war can happen by accident. As the Trump-Kim circus...
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Published in: openIndiaA tale of two events, and two cultures
The Science Congress and Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), held in India every January, are the largest events of...
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Published in: 50.50‘Religious freedom’ claims used to defend FGM in courts in four countries
Cases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality
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Published in: openIndiaResilient Hinduism has endured upheavals
It was not always like this. Hinduism neutralised competing elements by absorbing them. This faith tradition was...
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Published in: openIndiaRising roar of faux faith in poll-bound India
Read the newspapers, listen to the TV “debates” and see the WhatsApp-trained ignorant armies clash day and night.
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Published in: openIndiaSowing division: caste is crucial in Indian elections
Of course, politicians did not create the powerful Hindu caste system. They merely exploit this fault-line,...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: the dirty secrets of the DUP’s ‘dark money’ Brexit donor
MPs call on Richard Cook to “emerge from the shadows” after we uncover his trail of illegal waste, unpaid bills and...
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Published in: openIndiaDivine players in Indian politics
In a politically-surcharged atmosphere, no one should doubt that the appearance of Lord Ram’s idol in the mosque on...
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Published in: 50.50Why the ‘Me Too’ movement in India is succeeding at last
Centuries of entrenched patriarchy cannot be upturned in a month. But this country finally looks ready for a...
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Published in: openIndiaElections diminish democracy in India
It was not always like that. Those tracking the progress of democracy in India should interview political activists...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK30th World AIDS Day - a time for remembrance, resilience and reflection
Just occasionally, the UK public gets reminded that AIDS isn’t over and done with. Not at home, and certainly not...