In a Young Muslim Man’s Courage, a Lesson for Us All
A 45-second video evoked conflicting emotions in me: As a teacher I felt ashamed. And as a citizen of this country, I felt reassured.
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The Constitution Was Envisioned as a Living Document. But Can Our Leaders Keep It Alive?
On Constitution Day, we need to ask whether we, as a people, have proved equal to the expectations that it has from us. We need to ask why people who tried to emulate the ideals of that living document are in jail and how others are in positions to extinguish its spirit.
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Why Is There No Upper Caste Outcry When Merit Goes for a Toss in the EWS Quota?
For centuries, those who have reserved all the opportunities for themselves have started considering their talent as natural. They do not realise the injustice and tyranny hidden within the social structure which makes them owners of merit by robbing others of their merit.
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Why Bhagat Singh Was Not the Ultimate Militant Nationalist He’s Made Out to Be
His careful reading of the history of the revolutions led him to conclude that revolutions were not made by bombs and pistols – the most important thing was to mobilise people, a far more difficult prospect. The real battle was the battle of hearts and minds.
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Kali Faces the Wrath of a Hindi Colonialism Out to Destroy the Traditions of Her Followers
Hindus outside the Hindi belt have always treated their gods and goddesses as part of the family. They tease them and also pray to them. Their gods and goddesses eat, drink and make merry, just like them. The RSS resents this human-divine proximity.
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Act in Leisure, Lie in Haste: Prime Minister Modi as Perpetual Saviour
As the BJP pulls out its old tactics of creating a spectacle of an emergency, the students returning from Ukraine have seen through the fraud and refused to play ball.
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How Gujarat 2002 Turned India Into a Nation of Pathological Liars
Gujarat in 2002 was already living in the post-truth era, much before the world started using this term. And Gujarat then was a sign of what India, as a whole, was to become.
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The Indian Republic Was an Ambitious Project of Multiple Ideas and Identities. Can It Be Salvaged?
The founders envisioned a country made up of diverse identities. This promise of equality and individuality is being replaced by a monolithic Hindu identity.
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Tripura Police Stood By and Let Violence Happen – Now it’s Silencing Those Who Dare Speak of it
Indian Muslims and Christians have been forced into psychological and political isolation. Hate against minorities is part of the BJP’s ideology, but what about our police, our civil administration, our judiciary? Do they exist to facilitate the politics and project of the BJP?
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From the Targeting of Shahrukh Khan’s Son to Urdu, At Play Is Insecurity of the Hindutva Mindset
The public humiliation of one of the most sought after Muslim men in India is aimed at appeasing the injured manhood of those who suffer from the sense of sexual inferiority cultivated for over a century by Hindutva groups.
