On January 19, a 17-year old girl died after consuming an insecticide in a suicide attempt in Thanjavur, a district in the Tamil Nadu state of India. According to local news outlets, Lavanya, a grade 12 student at Sacred Heart Higher Secondary School, committed suicide due to an alleged forced conversion to Christianity.
On January 21, 2022, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) posted an open letter in opposition to the California State University (CSU) system adding caste to their anti-discrimination policy and demanding its removal.
California State University (CSU) has become the first university system in the US to add caste to its anti-discrimination policy. This decision will be impactful as there are 23 campuses across the state that are part of this system.
On January 15, 2022, Yati Narsinghanand, the controversial priest of the Dasna temple in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, and main organizer of the Hindu nationalist events held in Haridwar City, India, between December 17-19, is now under legal custody for two weeks for two different cases. No BJP leader has condemned the speeches nor the event.
On January 12, 2022, India’s Supreme Court announced it will petition to seek the prosecution of several Hindu leaders for allegedly making highly inflamed speeches against Muslims at a closed-door meeting back in December.
On January 5, 2022, Muslim clerics in the Jama Masjid in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, India, issued a fatwa (a ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority) against playing music at weddings or any marriage function.
On December 29, 2021, a Dalit-Christian family in the state of Karnataka, India, was attacked by a group of right-wing Hindu Nationalists in their own home under the suspicion that they were conducting illegal conversions.
On New Year's Day, 2022, an app called Bulli Bai uploaded hundreds of photos of Muslim women in India to be “auctioned off,” in an attempt to degrade and harass them. Some of the women on the app are journalists and politicians.
On December 28, 2021, Suresh Chavhanke of Sudarshan News posted a video on twitter depicting Indian students doing a Nazi-like salute while reciting a Hindu nationalist inspired oath.
