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Faith under siege: What is behind the recent spate of attacks on Hindu religious sites?

Abhishek Banerjee - 8 July, 2019

The temple vandalism in Hauz Qazi, Chandni Chowk is still totally fresh in our memories, still very much a topic of discussion on social media. There have since then been a spate of attack on Hindu religious sites

Crime

Tensions escalate as a boy brutally stabbed during the protests in Ranchi against alleged lynching of Tabrez Ansari held by Muslim groups

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2019

According to reports, a boy named Vivek Srivastava was brutally stabbed by the mob protestors and another one was beaten up in the night around 10 pm when the two boys were passing by on a bike.

Opinions

Here is how the real purpose of the ‘Lynchistan’ narrative was to provoke actual violence

Abhishek Banerjee - 6 July, 2019

The killing of Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand is again an example of a real event picked up and fitted into a false narrative of 'Lynchistan'

Opinions

Fanatics at the front door: The case of Hauz Qazi

Saket Suryesh - 4 July, 2019

Democracy is all about giving a voice to the voiceless and representation to the faceless. This is what went missing in the initial period of the incident of Hauz Qazi in Old Delhi where a Hindu temple was vandalized.

News Reports

The full story from Hauz Qazi: A vandalised temple, a missing Hindu boy, and a community losing faith

Nupur J Sharma - 3 July, 2019

The Hindu residents of Hauz Qazi also claimed that the Muslim mob had not only broken the idols of the Durga Mandir but also urinated in the temple.

Crime

Ahmednagar: Muzaffar Patel, Gulshan Sheikh arrested for keeping a woman captive, raping her for not embracing Islam

OpIndia Staff - 2 July, 2019

According to the complaint filed by the victim, Muzaffar Patel had threatened to kill her and her father and forced her to embrace Islam

Opinions

The not-so-syncretic Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb and the false wails of how ‘Sanghis’ turned Urdu into a ‘Muslim language’

kabirpandit - 1 July, 2019

Often one sees 'liberals invoking Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or the Syncretic Hindu Muslim culture of North India every time they hear the idea of New India. In reality, they see it as an attack on anything Muslim by the BJP.

News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: In an initiative taken by local BJP MLA, Hindus gift burial ground to Muslims in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff - 30 June, 2019

Some people of the Muslim community said that Muslim should also show equal sensibility and stop politicising and staking claims on the disputed Ayodhya Rambhoomi site

News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim families in Shamli ‘migrate’, police calls it a pressure tactic to avoid action in a dispute

OpIndia Staff - 30 June, 2019

The Superintendent of Police (SP) Shamli, Aja Kumar has termed the exodus of the Muslim families a pressure tactic to intimidate the police into not taking action against the culprits.

Crime