Local newspapers in Bhopal initially ran wild stories about 'love jihad' and Muslim women running sex racket, but have stopped the follow-up coverage. Some are calling it a “perfect” plot line for Anurag Kashyap’s next film.
The assumption is simple: A Hindu woman’s proximity to a Muslim man is never neutral. It always requires scrutiny, explanation, and, if necessary, punishment.
Two Muslim students & cafe staffer taken to police station & challaned. Later, FIR lodged against Bajrang Dal members on charges including assault, criminal intimidation.
Hindu–Muslim couples report being refused rooms, hotels say they have 'got orders from above', while police say they have not sent any directives to hotels.
'Vidhayak putra' Aklavya Singh Gaur also wants all Muslim traders to vacate rented shops in the next 2 months. The trigger for this direction seems to be a recent ‘love jihad’ case.
From implementing the Uniform Civil Code to cracking down on 'love jihad' and the latest education bill, Uttarakhand is becoming the BJP’s new 'Hindutva laboratory'.
The company had secured orders worth over Rs 100 crore from the Indian Army in November last year. Its UAVs are deployed along India’s borders with Pakistan & China.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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