India Hate Lab (IHL)

Report 2025: Hate Speech Events in India

Introduction The year 2025 inaugurated a profoundly disturbing phase in the trajectory of anti-minority rhetoric in India, reflecting a new baseline of permissiveness for the public expression of hate. This report documents and analyzes verified instances of in-person hate speech events across the country in 2025, including political rallies, religious processions, protest marches, and nationalist […]

Report 2024: Hate Speech Events in India

Introduction This report documents and analyzes verified instances of in-person hate speech events in India in 2024, covering various types of mass gatherings. These include political rallies, electoral campaign events, religious processions, protest marches, demonstrations, and cultural or nationalist gatherings. In other instances, they are organized with the express objective of harassing minorities. In 2024, […]