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All Communities in Kashmir Need Solidarity – the Majority as well as Minorities
The majority in India must talk about its insensitivity to the pain of those it considers ‘others’.
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The World Must Pay Attention to the Violence Against Muslims in India
Recent incidents in Indore and Ajmer explain why it is urgent for the global community to tell the Indian government that its actions are being watched and it will be held accountable according to international norms which all civilised countries have for their attitude towards minorities.
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Academic Freedom Is at Stake. We Must Stand in Solidarity With Professor Gilbert Sebastian.
Teachers have a right to have their opinion. They do not have to set aside their political opinions and ideologies before entering a classroom.
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In Chhattisgarh, the Murder of an Adivasi Police Officer Shows the Warped Sense of Maoist Justice
By enacting kangaroo courts and executions, Naxalites are legitimising the extra-judicial methods the state uses against them.
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On Good Friday, a Message for All Indians
Nations like individuals can only be made through the agony of the cross and in no other way. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself – said Gandhi.
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‘Defend the Essential’: Ashoka’s Trustees Should Read this Note by Gandhi in 1940
If the institution cannot house a figure like Pratap Bhanu Mehta, then why does it exist?
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By Playing Hindutva Politics, AAP Is Stirring Up Trouble
AAP has now decided that it is not enough to merely look Hindu. It seeks to replace the BJP by dipping into its poisonous Hindutva lexicon.
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It’s Clear Why NewsClick Is Being Targeted, and Why it Was Viewed as a Threat
Platforms like NewsClick and the people involved in running it take risks because they want to make the freedom of expression substantive.
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Farmers Are Still Focused on the Real Issues. We Shouldn’t Be Distracted Either.
A months-long agitation cannot be not delegitimised on the basis of one day. You need to have the clarity of Gandhi, the eternal resister to injustice, to refuse to give up the idea of civil resistance if a section of the resisters fails to fully restrain itself.
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How Should We Remember December 6?
How can we hope to become one people if a single event or a date evokes two disparate and antagonistic memories in two sections of the country?
