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India’s leader has appealed for ‘peace and brotherhood’ after last week’s violence left 43 dead in Delhi. In Modi’s India, however, brotherhood requires religious minorities to know their place.
President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad, India.
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A shared commitment to democracy was always key to the India-US relationship – until Trump. A foreign policy expert explains what’s on the agenda for Trump’s trip to India and what’s missing.
Women in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh neighborhood are protesting a new Indian citizenship law that they say will discriminate against Muslims, women – and, particularly, Muslim women.
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A round-the-clock strike of Muslim women in a working-class neighborhood of Delhi is India’s most enduring pocket of resistance to religious discrimination, inequality and gender violence.
Relatives light candles for victims who died during a bomb blast at St. Sebastian Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on April 22, 2019.
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Violence against religious minorities around the world prompted the United Nations to mark a day for the victims in 2019. Here is a roundup of some key events around the world.
All voting-age Indians may soon be asked to submit government-issued ID to prove citizenship. That may be a challenge for women, religious minorities and members of oppressed castes.
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Many women, Muslims and members of oppressed castes in India lack government-issued ID. Yet these documents may soon be required to prove their citizenship.
A Hindu woman prays to the bricks that are expected to be used in constructing the Ram temple in Ayodhya, following a verdict from the Indian Supreme Court.
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India’s Supreme Court has allowed a Hindu temple to be built on the disputed site of a 16th-century mosque. The verdict could have long-term ramifications for India’s tradition of religious diversity.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is garlanded after winning the elections.
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Modi and the political party he represents are adherents of Hindutva, an ideology. It is fundamentally different from the faith, Hinduism.
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A panel of academic experts assess Narendra Modi's victory in the final episode of our India Tomorrow series.
Modi supporters celebrate as votes are counted on May 23.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party of Narendra Modi has claimed victory in the world’s biggest democratic exercise.
Narendra Modi’s image was ubiquitous on the campaign trail – a sign of how much Indians have gravitated toward his cult of personality and nationalist rhetoric.
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Modi has been given an overwhelming mandate to continue his reform agenda in India, but he faces many challenges in his second term as prime minister.
In a nation of multiple faiths, Hindus celebrate Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, with Mughal-era buildings behind them.
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India has always been a nation of multiple faiths but the BJP government, which is favoured to be returned this week as winner of the general election, is eroding the country’s Muslim heritage.
Protests by students in New Delhi after the suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula.
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Text books are being rewritten and the history of caste in India questioned as ‘decolonisation’ has become the rhetoric of militant nationalism.
A flag with the Hindu ‘Om’ symbol held by supporters of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
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This is a transcript of part two of The Anthill’s podcast series, India Tomorrow, on the politics of Hindu natonalism.
The second part of this series from The Anthill podcast looks at the trajectories of Hindu nationalism in India.
A model of the Lord Rama temple that hindu nationalist supporters would like to see built in Ayodhya.
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A panel of mediators has been asked by the Indian Supreme Court to suggest a way forward for a site claimed by both Hindus and Muslims.
At 597 feet tall, India’s ‘Statue of Unity’ — celebrating independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel — is the world’s biggest statue.
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Colossal public monuments to Hinduism are going up across India, sending an ominous message to the country’s 260 million religious minorities.
A supporter of Narendra Modi’s BJP party at rally in late March.
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India heads to the polls in April and May for the world’s biggest democratic exercise. Why the world should be watching this election.
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The bonhomie between Narendra Modi and Binyamin Netanyahu is rooted in the admiration of generations of Hindu nationalists for Israel.
Students protest the citizenship bill in Guwahati, Assam.
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At the point of independence, Indian citizenship law was a matter of residency, not religion or ethnicity. That could be about to change.
Assumptions, authoritarianism and errors are just a few of the ways in which the world could be confronted by a nuclear disaster, physicist and disarmament expert MV Ramana suggests in his book reviews.
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A nuclear physicist and disarmament expert recommends reading on nuclear disasters, weapons, authoritarianism and climate change.