Love and Religious Boundaries: Love Jihad
This 1st Oct a Barially Court gave life imprisonment to a Muslim man in case of a complaint of sexual assault. In the judgment the justice commented that it is…
Love Jihad Bill
A Brief History of the Origins of the Love Jihad Conspiracy Theory
Love Jihad is a propaganda that accuses Muslim men for converting Hindu women to Islam, using money, and are sometimes accused of alluring women hiding their real identity. It’s been…
Violence against Women: Inserting Communal Angle
The case of brutal, horrific violence against Shraddha Walkar has shaken the whole nation. It is gruesome and utterly despicable crime. One recalls with similar horror the case of Nirbhaya…
The Struggle Between Love and Hate Within Christianity
During the 1930s, MS Golwalkar, the main ideologue of RSS stated that `we have 3 enemies: Christians, Muslims and Communists’. The socialists, communists, Congress, Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis and even Christians…
Love jihad has no truth to it
Love jihad is a highly debated topic in India today. Whenever the issue starts to peter out someone will come up with a statement or an action to bring it…
Gandhian antecedents of the anti-`love-jihad’ campaign – and Gandhi’s later act of atonement
The term `love- jihad’ is being used by the activists of the Sangh Parivar to target inter-religious marriages between Muslim men and Hindu women. They accuse the Muslims of …
The illiberal vision outlined in the UP Government’s affidavit before the Allahabad High Court
The recently promulgated Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversions Ordinance, 2020 [‘the Ordinance’], unofficially referred to as the ‘love jihad law’ by much of the news media, has been…
Love Jihad, Conversions and Laws curbing Freedoms
Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020, passed by UP on 27th November 2020, has set the ball rolling at two levels. On one hand many other…
Scrap the “Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance” Immediately
At the age of 18, we can vote for our councilors, MLAs, MPs. At 18, we decide who will make and implement policies that affect us, our loved ones, our…
Clever play of the narrative: Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion Of Religion Ordinance 2020
Written by Arundhati Dhuru, Sandeep Pandey, Kushagra Kumar The Uttar Pradesh government has brought in the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion Of Religion Ordinance 2020 which is being described as…
Uttar Pradesh conversion law not only anti-minority but extremely anti-Dalit also
The Uttar Pradesh Religious Conversion Prohibition Act 2020 passed last year by the Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh is not only anti - minority but also extremely anti-Dalit. This law…
Anti-Conversion Law in UP “An aim to resurrect the old venom of curbing ‘Love Jihad’ from the buried casket – This time with vengeance”
Are you an adult and thinking of getting married? Do you believe you have the freedom to marry the partner of your choice, even if he/she is from a different…
Media keeps adding fuel to ‘Love-Jihad’ Fire
Several Hindi newspapers continue to support “Love-Jihad” law, carrying stories and opinion pieces in upholding it. “Love-Jihad” is an unproven conspiracy theory designed and propagated by the Hindutva forces…
India’s Long Standing Jihad Against Love
Hinduism has always been under threat by some force or other. The latest and most urgent one, by the sounds of it, is love jihad. It is a plot, according…
Why do Hindutva forces feel chilly due to conversion?
In 1993, the then Congress Government, in Centre, introduced the Religion Bill in Parliament to stop the use of religion in politics. Apparently, the purpose of Congress Government was to…
Law against ‘Love Jihad’ or controlling our ‘individuality’
Love Jihad rhetoric is back in action in almost all the BJP ruled states as they compete each other in proclaiming to bring a law against it to stop the…
Hindi Press popularizes anti-woman & anti-Muslim narrative of “Love-Jihad”
Several leading Hindi newspapers have brazenly mouthed the Hindutva narrative of anti-woman and anti-Muslim “Love-Jihad” conspiracy theory and justified the proposal of the BJP ruled state to come out…
In defence of Love Jihad
‘Love jihad’ is an abhorrent, insidious, reactionary, patriarchal, misogynist and anti-Muslim political project of Hindutva forces to undermine liberal, secular and constitutional democratic society in India. The freedom to love…
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