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The former general secretary of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Ram Madhav, has called on South Africans of Indian descent to strengthen interaction with those in their ancestral country. (@indiainjoburg/X)

Hindu nationalist Ram Madhav urges Indian South Africans to deepen ties with world’s largest emerging economy

The India politician is on a Global South tour to spread a message of diasporans blending loyalty to their birthplace with pride in their ancestral homeland

  • Eyaaz
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Shock election results hit governing parties globally

‘A kind of electoral long Covid’ has left its mark on countries around the world that went to the polls

  • Eyaaz
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The conflict between India and Pakistan goes back to Partition in 1947. Conflict has flared up regularly in Kashmir since then including in 2019 (above) and now in 2025. Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

Kashmir’s ‘Black Day’ a reminder that the freedom struggle continues

The people of Kashmir and Palestine have suffered oppression for many decades, both starting with the British and then by India and Israel, respectively

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Disputed: The Ram Mandir was consecrated in January. The Hindu temple is built on a site believed to be the birthplace of Lord Rama. In 1992, Hindu nationalists demolished the Babri Mosque on the same site, the site of another temple in the 16th century. Photo: Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images

God edition: Hindu nationalism clangs temple bells

We should question the politics using the Hindu religion and we must reject it if it is wrong

  • Umamah Bakharia
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Workers remove posters of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after the model court of conduct was enforced following the announcement of the schedule of Lok Sabha elections on March 16, 2024 in Patna, India. (Photo by Santosh Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

What is wrong with India’s opposition?

With general elections only weeks away, opposition parties seem weak and demoralised

  • Des Erasmus
7 min read
True colours: The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the inauguration of the Ram temple, built at the site of a demolished 16th-century mosque, in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, on 22 January. (Photo by Imtiyaz Khan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

India’s ‘Kristallnacht’ cues fascism

Hindus everywhere need to strongly oppose Narendra Modi’s agenda and the death of the democratic vision

  • Eyaaz
6 min read