communal violence

A Warning from History

Sandeep Balakrishna

Nuh is turning into the Kohat of independent India

Who Set Nuh on Fire?

The attack on a religious procession sparked off communal violence in a region notorious for its mining mafia and cyber crime

In the Name of Aurangzeb

Lhendup G Bhutia

What led to mob violence in Kolhapur after social media posts coincided with Shivaji coronation celebrations

Hate Wave in the Capital

Rajeev Deshpande

Has Delhi become a communal tinderbox?

Post Independence, in our collective zeal to present a politically correct version of history, we have ensured that Delhi’s and north India’s Hindu heritage remains hostage to a mix of distortions and apathy

The Hindu Inflexion

Swapan Dasgupta

The domes of Babri Masjid fell on the remains of the Nehruvian consensus. The aftershocks are being felt even today

Editor’s Note: Demolition-Reclamation-Reinvention

S Prasannarajan

A temple in Modi’s India, if his words are any indication, cannot afford to be incompatible with the spirit of modernisation he has unleashed

Mark Tully: The Witness

Ullekh NP

Mark Tully, who reported it for the world from ground zero, watched some leaders asking the police to stay away and Sangh volunteers breaching police cordons with ease. Then they began to climb up the domes of the mosque and started hacking away at the mortar

Kameshwar Chaupal: The First Kar Sevak

Rahul Pandita

Kameshwar Chaupal, now 61, recounts the exact moment he was called onto the stage in Ayodhya with Sangh Parivar stalwarts and told that he would lay the first brick at the construction site of the proposed Rama temple

In the Name of Rama

Amita Shah

From behind the scenes as well as the frontline, they provided the intellectual, political and spiritual ballast to a movement that culminated on Demolition Day