Links to recent articles about situation in India

Beef ban killings:

Indian mob kills man over beef eating rumour
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/indian-mob-kills-man-cow-slaughter-rumour-150930193719666.html

Temple announcement about beef triggered the lynching: Police
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/temple-announcement-about-beef-triggered-the-lynching-police/articleshow/49190181.cms

BJP leader’s son held in Dadri lynching case
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bjp-leaders-son-held-in-dadri-lynching-case/article7720979.ece

Dadri killing premeditated, says National Commission for Minorities
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/dadri-killing-premeditated-says-national-commission-for-minorities/article7790535.ece

AUDIO: Muslims can live in this country, but will have to give up eating beef, says Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/muslims-can-live-in-this-country-but-they-will-have-to-give-up-eating-beef-says-haryana-cm-manohar-lal-khattar/

‘Cow smuggler’ lynched in Himachal, police yet to make arrest
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/suspected-bajrang-dal-members-lynch-man-over-alleged-cow-smuggling/story-MRBEhyD4UqwjZg1wzwjm6J.html

Jammu and Kashmir trucker dies, CM Mufti Mohammad blames ‘politics of hate’
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/protests-in-j-k-after-truckers-death-separatists-call-for-strike/

Indian Muslim, Accused of Stealing a Cow, Is Beaten to Death by a Hindu Mob http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/world/asia/hindu-mob-kills-another-indian-muslim-accused-of-harming-cows.html?_r=0

 

Attacks on Dalits:

Caste violence: Two Dalit children burnt alive in Faridabad revenge killing, mother critical
http://www.firstpost.com/india/ugly-face-of-caste-violence-despite-police-protection-dalit-children-burnt-alive-in-haryana-2476088.html

Arrests made after Dalit children burned alive in India
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/arrests-dalit-children-burnt-alive-india-151021140032140.html

Indian protests after Dalit children burnt alive in caste attack
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34589995

Dalit boy found dead; two cops booked for murder
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/dalit-boy-found-dead-two-cops-booked-for-murder/149328.html

Video of Dalit family allegedly stripped by police creates storm on social media http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/video-of-dalit-family-allegedly-stripped-by-police-creates-storm-on-social-media/article7742836.ece

 

Other incidents:

Rationalist MM Kalburgi’s cold blooded killing shocks Karnataka’s literary capital
http://www.firstpost.com/india/kalburgi-murder-rationalists-cold-blooded-killing-shocks-karnatakas-literary-capital-2413920.html

Kalburgi murder: Former Rama Sene chief detained in Mangaluru
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/kalburgi-murder-rama-sene-chief-detained-in-mangaluru/

Shiv Sena attacks Sudheendra Kulkarni over Kasuri book, then brags about it http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/shiv-sena-attacks-sudheendra-kulkarni-over-kasuri-book-then-brags-about-it/

Shiv Sena attack derails India-Pakistan cricket talks
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34569574

 

Commentary and Reactions by civil society:

India’s Attack on Free Speech

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/sonia-faleiro-india-free-speech-kalburgi-pansare-dabholkar.html

Here are the 33 writers who returned their Sahitya Akademi awards
http://indianexpress.com/photo-news/india/here-are-the-33-writers-who-returned-their-sahitya-akademi-awards/1/#sthash.q9L1UdpO.dpuf

Here is why India’s leading scientists are also speaking up against intolerance
http://scroll.in/article/765802/here-is-why-usually-apolitical-scientists-are-also-speaking-up-against-intolerance

Artists’ Statement on Growing Political and Religious Intolerance
http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/artists-statement-growing-political-and-religious-intolerance.html

Now Sociologists Join Issue With Modi Over Dadri Lynching, Murder of Scholars
http://thewire.in/2015/10/17/now-sociologists-join-issue-with-modi-over-dadri-lynching-murder-of-scholars-13389/

India’s Arundhati Roy returns national award over ‘horrific murders’
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34729894

The Costs of Hindu Extremism
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/opinion/the-costs-of-hindu-extremism.html

NYT’s Damning Editorial On Hindu Extremism Doesn’t Help Modi’s American Dream
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/11/04/nyt-op-ed-hindu-extremism_n_8470636.html

Narendra Modi: The divisive manipulator who charmed the world
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/09/narendra-modi-the-divisive-manipulator-who-charmed-the-world

India is being ruled by a Hindu Taliban
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/12/india-hindu-taliban-narendra-modi

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