https://www.scmp.com/rss/513595/feed Danish Raza is a New Delhi-based independent journalist with a wide experience spanning digital, print and TV largely in India and the United States. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The National and Star Tribune. He is former News Editor (South Asia) at VICE and was Assistant Editor at Hindustan Times, one of India’s largest English-language newspapers. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Mob killings fuelled by religious hatred have been on the rise in India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took power in 2014, with most incidents related to alleged slaughter of cows, an animal considered sacred by many Hindus. In the latest such incident, a BJP lawmaker is shown on video making a controversial statement about the number of people killed by cow vigilantes. “We have so far killed five people,” Gyan Dev Ahuja says in the video that... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3191981/cow-my-mother-indias-cow-related-lynching-incidents-are-rise-bjp?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3191981/cow-my-mother-indias-cow-related-lynching-incidents-are-rise-bjp?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:00:16 +0000