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As hate spirals in India, Hindu extremists turn to Christian targets

Anti-Muslim violence has soared for more than a decade under Indian PM Modi. Now, Christians face the brunt, too.

People hold placards during a protest against what they claim are attacks on the Christian community, churches and institutions across India at a ground in Mumbai, India, April 12, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

Bihar election: Can Modi buck Gen Z rage in India’s youngest state?

Protests have toppled governments across South Asia. India has stayed immune. Will Bihar elections change that?

People stand in a queue to cast their votes.

Why is India forcing 80 million people to justify their right to vote?

Amid raids targeting Muslims, an electoral roll revision in India’s poorest state has become a political flashpoint.

JDU leaders and workers carry out a cycle rally to raise voters' awareness ahead of the Bihar Assembly election, on July 8, 2025 in Patna, India [Santosh Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images]

‘Traitors’: Hate-filled songs target Indian Muslims after Kashmir attack

Wave of incendiary music tracks fueling Islamophobic hate floods Indian social media after April 22 killings.

Supporters of Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad, or All India Students' Council burn an effigy of terrorism and shouts slogans during a protest against the killing of tourists by militants near Pahalgam in Indian controlled Kashmir, in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Did India’s farmers ditch Modi’s BJP in the 2024 election?

Many major farm belts turned against India’s ruling party in the election, contributing to the sharp fall in seats.

Farmers take out a tractor rally in a protest against new farm laws at Ghaziabad, outskirts of New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Indian farmers who have blockaded key highways for weeks say they'll continue their protests for new agricultural laws to be repealed. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

How do you find a bride? The new struggle in crisis-hit rural India

As climate change, low earnings and high debts batter them, young male farmers can’t find women willing to marry them.

Bhushan Unde, 31,

As college degrees bring poverty, Indians ask: Does education even matter?

Two-thirds of India’s unemployed youth are educated — a fraction which has doubled since 2000.

Sidhant Mende has an engineering degree. But he works supervising the construction of a house that requires none of his training and offers a pittance in pay, in Ralegaon, India [Al Jazeera/Kunal Purohit]

Farm suicides, anger mount in Indian villages that Modi promised hope

Villages where Modi launched his farm outreach a decade ago have seen deaths and debt mount since then.

Family members of Vithal Rathod, the farmer in Dabhadi village who took his own life, stand outside their home in Yavatmal. It was in Dabhadi that Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his farm outreach in 2014. A decade later, crosses losses, debts and deaths are mounting [Kunal Purohit/Al Jazeera]

How dubious YouTube ‘news’ channels are shaping India’s election

In YouTube’s largest market, self-proclaimed news channels are booming, gaining millions of viewers peddling falsehoods.

An NMF News video from April 4, 2024, with the subtitle claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sent Pakistan into shivers, and the opposition Congress party into a cold sweat [Screengrab/NMF News/YouTube]

Bollywood ‘takeover’: Pro-Modi films swamp Indian voters ahead of election

At least 10 releases before the election amplify Modi’s political agenda and vilify critics – sparing not even Gandhi.

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, center left with his son Abisheik Bachchan, center right along with other chief guests sit awaiting the opening of a temple dedicated to Hindu deity Lord Ram, in Ayodhya, India, Monday, Jan.22, 2024. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to open a controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of an ancient mosque in the holy city of Ayodhya in a grand event that is expected to galvanize Hindu voters months before a general election. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)