About a month ago, a video emerged of an Indian teacher telling students to slap a 7-year-old classmate. The boy had gotten his multiplication tables wrong, but his real crime was being an Indian ...

MUZAFFARNAGAR, India (RNS) — Muslim shop owners are shutting their businesses along the Kanwar Yatra (pilgrimage) route rather than risk attacks. MUZAFFARNAGAR, India (RNS) — Vakeel Ahmad was stirring ...

VARANASI, India — On a recent Friday afternoon in this holy city in northern India, scooters, pedestrians and cycle rickshaws jostled for space on a street leading to the city's most famous Hindu ...

(RNS) — The Interfaith Harmony Student Fellowship, an inaugural initiative from progressive Hindu organization Hindus for Human Rights, aims to prove that the younger generation will lead the cause ...

New Delhi — Hundreds of millions of Hindus celebrated the opening of a grand new temple in the northern India city of Ayodhya on Monday, but the decision by India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister ...

Every Indian Muslim knows about the pause: the moment when another Indian, usually a Hindu, hears your name, waits a few seconds, and then, with a furrowed brow or a step back, acts surprised and ...