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No, this isn’t Kavi Pradeep who wrote ‘Ae Mere Watan Ke Logo’ criticising Nehru

Kinjal12th May 2022

A video ascribed to Kavi Pradeep, the lyricist who penned the words to the song ‘Ae Mere Watan Ke Logo’, is circulating widely on social media. The elderly man in…

Old photo of Amit Shah with IAS Pooja Singhal, who is under ED probe, viral

Shinjinee Majumder11th May 2022

An image of BJP president Amit Shah and IAS officer Pooja Singhal has gone viral. Social media users are claiming that it was taken days before the Enforcement Directorate raided…

No, ASI Dhannaram did not “fake” injuries sustained during violence on Eid in Jodhpur

Kinjal11th May 2022

Violence broke out in Jodhpur on the intervening night of May 2 and 3 after a group of BJP supporters forcibly removed Eid flags and loudspeakers. Following this, on the…

Manish Sisodia didn’t say ‘’AAP caused most riots in the country’’; edited video viral

Abhishek Kumar10th May 2022

A video of Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia, has gone viral on social media. He can be heard saying in the video that AAP…

Nehru’s portrait morphed into picture of Modi-Scholz meet in Germany

Shinjinee Majumder7th May 2022

An image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is going viral. The image shows the two leaders seated in front of a picture of Pandit Jawaharlal…

No, Rahul Gandhi is NOT with Chinese Ambassador to Nepal in this video

Abhishek Kumar & Mohammed Zubair7th May 20227th May 2022

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi travelled to Nepal recently. As per a May 2 article by a Nepali news portal, he was attending his friend Sumnima Udas’ wedding. Udas is a…

Old image from MP viral as 25 “non-Muslim” Allahabad Uni students arrested for making bombs

Aritraa Dey7th May 2022

A post with two images clubbed together is viral on social media. While the first photograph is of a group of people in police custody, the second is a file…

Muslims demand separate state in Assam? No, old video from UP

Kalim Ahmed5th May 2022

A 2:12 minute-long video montage where the police can be seen violently attacking civilians is viral on social media with the claim that Muslims in Assam took out a rally…

Minority leader beaten in Bangladesh over political rivalry, incident falsely communalised

Kalim Ahmed & Nilofar Absar4th May 20224th May 2022

A photo of a man tied to a tree and covered in blood is widely being shared as a photo of Jitendra Kanti Guha, who is a local Hindu leader…

Jilted boyfriend kills woman, incident given false communal shade online

Kalim Ahmed4th May 20226th May 2022

A 30-second long video clip where a youth can be seen stabbing a young woman is widely being shared with the claim that in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, a Muslim boy…

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Javed Akhtar, Banu Mushtaq and the contagion of religious sentiments getting hurt

Letter claiming ‘RSS did not participate in anti-British movement’ is morphed