Hindu Names for Military Operations: Treading a Dangerous Line
The Modi government’s move aims to transform our religiously diverse, plural and strictly secular armed forces into a weapon of Hindutva.
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No Handshakes, Big Revenues: Indian Cricket Board’s Pakistan Pieties
It is trying to appease its hyper-nationalist audience at home while simultaneously serving the interests of a global cricket economy.
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RSS at 100: Can Akhand Bharat be Reimagined?
India’s progress depends on fostering Hindu–Muslim harmony and healing. Does the RSS have the imagination to shed its exclusionary ideas?
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Which Hindi Do We Speak Anyway?
The battle has always been about “purifying” Hindi, stripping it of foreignness, limiting its vernacular inclusions.
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Historian Richard Eaton: ‘Mughals Were Not a Foreign Empire’; NCERT Seeking to Erase Their History – 2 Articles
‘“Absolutely Wrong to See Mughals as a Foreign Empire”: Historian Richard Eaton’: Calling the Mughals a foreign empire is like calling America a foreign empire. The author also points out that it is impossible to rid India today of their influence. Also: ‘Erasing the Mughals: NCERT’s Assault on Truth and Memory’.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 4 A-B: Education During the Modi Years, 2014–25
The sixth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the Modi Government’s policies on the school education system since it came to power in 2014, especially the impact of NEP-2020
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Sri Lanka’s Austerity is One of the Most Severe in History
Sri Lanka has undergone one of the sharpest and fastest episodes of austerity in history, driven by a massive retrenchment in public investment and the suppression of real wages, according to a World Bank report.
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Trump’s Imperialist Offensive in Latin America; Why is Venezuela Targeted – 2 Articles
‘The Restoration of the Monroe Doctrine and Trump’s Imperialist Offensive in Latin America’: The world has watched in shock as US foreign policy under President Trump has grown increasingly unilateral and aggressive. Also: ‘Venezuela Targeted Because it is the “Poster Child of Everything the U.S. Empire Fears”: Ben Norton’.
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Trump Uses Kirk Killing to Declare War on the Left
Having neither a subject in custody nor any confirmation of the motive of a shooter didn’t stop President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening from seizing on the killing of Christian nationalist youth leader Charlie Kirk as an excuse for declaring war on the political left.
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Bolsonaro’s Conviction and the Fight Against Amnesty in Brazil
A collective of descendants of former political prisoners weighs in on the historic ruling and the ongoing struggle for truth, justice and accountability.
