Apoorvanand

It is no co­in­ci­dence that Bilkis Bano’s rapists were re­leased on In­dia’s In­de­pen­dence Day.

The anti-Is­lam in­sults by high-rank­ing BJP staffers, which caused a diplo­mat­ic storm, are hard­ly anom­alies.

But re­sis­tance to the vi­o­lent and di­vi­sive pol­i­tics of Hin­du na­tion­al­ists is also grow­ing.

The rul­ing par­ty is try­ing to de­monise the farm­ers’ protests by por­tray­ing them as a Sikh con­spir­a­cy.

The new ‘anti-con­ver­sion’ laws re­move agency from women and put a tar­get on the backs of in­no­cent Mus­lim men and boys.

I doc­u­ment­ed and wrote about the Del­hi com­mu­nal ri­ots. Now I am be­ing por­trayed as con­spir­ing to in­cite vi­o­lence.

The COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has been turned into yet an­oth­er Is­lam­o­pho­bic con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry.

The BJP’s set­back in Del­hi’s lo­cal leg­isla­tive elec­tions is not a de­feat of its Hin­du na­tion­al­ist agen­da.

The In­di­an gov­ern­ment and ju­di­cia­ry have shown lit­tle will­ing­ness to de­liv­er jus­tice in ‘saf­fron ter­ror’ cas­es.

A new bill which seeks to grant cit­i­zen­ship only to non-Mus­lim im­mi­grants is an at­tack on In­dia’s sec­u­lar char­ac­ter.