By Rahul Sambaraju and Suryapratim Roy | – The fallout from two controversial changes to citizenship laws continues to rock India. At least 35 people have died in sectarian violence in New Delhi which began on February 23. Muslims homes and businesses have been attacked and mosques vandalised by mobs. All schools in the capital […]
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India
The Trumps don’t have a Right to the Taj Mahal
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trumps visited the Taj Mahal during their trip to India. They didn’t have a right to do so. The building is properly the mausoleum of Mumtaz Mahall, literally “Queen Mumtaz” in Mughal Persian. It was constructed of white marble in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by the Mughal emperor […]
Are the Hindu Supremacists trying to Israelify India?
Reducing Muslims to Statelessness or 2nd Class Citizenship
As India’s Hindu Supremacist Gov’t Moves to deprive 1.5 mn Assamese Muslims of Citizenship, a Solidarity Network Emerges
By Anuradha Sen Mookerjee | – The state of Assam in India is currently burning with violent protests against a new citizenship law passed by both houses of the Indian parliament in early December. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will ease the Indian citizenship process for undocumented migrants in India who come from Pakistan, Afghanistan […]
Muslim Ban goes Global? How India’s Citizenship Bill Discriminates against Muslims
Draft Law Favors Hindus, Other Non-Muslim Immigrants
Dig Beneath the World’s Far-Right Governments — You’ll Find Fossil Fuels
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – From Brazil to India to the United States, extractive industries have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments waging war on minority populations. The world’s burgeoning far-right movements are far-flung and diverse, but in government they share a few core tendencies: They attack minority populations. They criminalize dissent. And they’re horrible for […]
Kashmir: How Modi’s Virulent Hindu Nationalism Brought India & Pakistan to the Brink, Again
By Abdullah Yusuf | – August is immensely important in the history of the Asian subcontinent, marking the month that India and Pakistan gained independence from the British in 1947. Now, in 2019, it has once again proved momentous, when, ten days before India’s Independence day celebrations, prime minister Narendra Modi’s government revoked the autonomy […]
India, Infringing Basic Freedoms, must Restore Kashmir’s Internet, Phones
Shutdown Affects Essential Services, Harms Economy
This Time, the World Is Watching in Kashmir
By taking over Kashmir at gunpoint, India has set itself up to reap the whirlwind
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