Tag: #Hindutva
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Independence of Seven Sister States of India, a broken country….
While Modi has exposed the weaknesses of the so-called Indian Democracy, now various independence movements are gaining momentum from India’s brutal hegemony to keep them intact as Attot Ang and Akhand Bharat as this concept of Greater India is falling apart more quickly than thought. A brief Indo-Pak war where India lost control of its…
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Modi & Secular India
Hindu nationalism in India has historically surged during critical junctures when political leaders, professing secularism, have leaned on religion to gain electoral advantages. Over the past century, this trend has reached a peak, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi openly dismissing secularism in favor of a religiously defined national identity. In his 1923 work Hindutva, Vinayak…
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The Politics of Religion in India: Hindutva’s Manipulation of Hinduism
Hindutva, a political ideology, is often mistakenly equated with Hinduism, a diverse and ancient religion. This manipulation distorts Hinduism’s image, focusing on a narrow and exclusive interpretation promoting acts of violence and hatred towards the religion itself. The emergence of this Hindu nationalist ideology has posed a challenge to the concept of India as an…
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Indian court upholds classroom scarf ban in BJP governed Karnataka
An Indian court has upheld a ban on the hijab in class in the southern state of Karnataka, governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party
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Indian authorities seal girls’ madrassa in IIOJK
The Narendra Modi-led Hindu nationalist government has sealed the Darul Uloom Khadijatul Kubra seminary in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and manhandled the Muslim female students
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Samjhauta Express and the Hindutva wave of terror
Hindu extremists had conducted an attack on Samjhauta Express in 2007 and blamed the Muslim groups for this attack but later on; the NIA arrested an RSS worker in connection with the attack
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BJP MPA advises Muslim women not to wear headscarf outside
The Lok Sabha MP told Muslim women in India: “There’s no need to wear hijab outside, you can wear it in your homes as women are worshipped here in India.”
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India’s Hijab dispute reaches Uttar Pradesh state
Controversy over banning female students from wearing hijab in a southern Indian state has now reached India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, where a group of youths have demanded a ban on head covering from a college.
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OIC voices concern over Islamophobia incidents in India
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has voiced serious concerns over the continued attacks on Muslims in India
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Indian diplomat summoned to convey concern over Hijab ban in Karnataka: Foreign Office
Islamabad summoned the Indian Charge d’ Affaires at the Foreign Office (FO) to convey the government of Pakistan’s grave concern and condemnation of the deeply reprehensible act of banning Muslim girl students from wearing hijab (headscarf) in the Indian state of Karnataka.