scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicVigilantism

Topic: vigilantism

Rama Sene men vandalise Mangaluru salon in name of ‘immoral activities’; leader Attavar held

Rama Sene chief Attavar alleges girls were being pushed into prostitution at salon. Right-wing outfit is linked to 2009 moral policing attack at pub in Mangaluru.

Pakistani CM has a brickbat solution for kickbacks—break official’s head, save them from hell

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM Ali Amin Gandapur's 'solution' has been described both as vigilante justice and a solution. Now Pakistanis are asking if the govt offices will provide the brick.

Lynching to shooting, ‘instant justice’ is on the rise in Punjab’s sacrilege cases

Sacrilege cases in Punjab are exacting a grim toll, with two accused dead and another injured in span of just a month. 'Intolerant radical element emerging among Sikhs', says expert.

‘Hate has won’ — Munawar Faruqui hints at quitting comedy as ‘12 shows cancelled in 2 months’

Faruqui has been in eye of storm over a New Year event in Indore this year, when he was arrested for ‘indecent remarks’ on Hindu deities & Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

If Modi govt doesn’t control vigilantism, history will compare it to Indira Gandhi Emergency

Legions of vigilantes; ordinary citizens like businessmen, journalists, and of course, bureaucrats, are the BJP govt’s newideological foot soldiers.

India slowing vaccine export shows what is wrong with bureaucratic control in a pandemic

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Indian media’s communal violence reportage needs to be consistent, not just show one angle

Delhi’s Hauz Qazi incident shows how media white-washes reportage when victims happen to be from the majority community.

Vigilantism is central to RSS’ mission of organising Hindus & defending their interests

The movement has displayed a tendency to fight Muslims physically and to stand up against government if it tries to get in its way.

Karni Sena’s attack on a school bus is no surprise given what we’ve allowed so far

Where was this magnitude of disbelief, shock and revulsion when a man was killed in his house on rumours of eating beef or after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed in a train?

3 years of Modi govt: Congress digs up failures, but unsure about cow vigilantism

The issues that the opposition party will attack the government with include foreign policy, employment, Kashmir, personal freedom and farm crisis. Ruhi Tewari

On Camera

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

It is the law of progress that a few persons must go to the top to show the possibilities and opportunities, so that others might emulate and follow them, wrote GN Lawande in 1958

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

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.