Hyderabad, Feb. 4 -- Telangana has seen a recent spike in communal tensions and hate crimes, more so than ever, and these incidents are not spontaneous or isolated events, but linked to deeper and more complicated issues of land, identity, and political mobilisation, the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) reported.

Titled, "Belonging, Coexistence and Fractures: Documenting state atrocities and fractured coexistence in Telangana," the report's comprehensive, in-depth research questioned and explained the underlying issues triggering the hate crimes occurring in recent times.

Communal violence sustained through political strategies

According to the report, communal violence in Telangana is "increasingly produced and sustai...