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The Carnatic vocalist and public intellectual argues that India must defend its founding symbols and also reimagine their meaning for a changing time.
‘“Indianisation” of Syllabi is Hollowing Out Knowledge in Our Universities’; ‘Gagged Campuses, Hollowed Classrooms: The Universities in India Today’; ‘Cash Crunch, Research Void and Guest Faculty Surge: The Collapse of Social Sciences in India’; ‘The Cost of Learning: Protests Mount Across Universities as Fee Hikes Deepen Crisis of Accessibility’.
The merging of faith with State has not worked out well anywhere.
The philosopher argues that in modern liberal states, secularism has become a cudgel used by elites to oppose multicultural accommodations for religious minorities.
‘A Low-Grade Fever, a Relentless Sadness: Being Muslim in the New India That is Bharat’: This fear that rubs away insidiously at the idea of belonging must at least be acknowledged. Also: ‘Kashmir: Belonging, Conditional’; and: ‘Against Hate Script: How Ordinary Citizens Are Reclaiming Public Space’.
Tipu stands very tall in the scale of religious tolerance. The half-baked propaganda of the communal forces is trying to divide communities.
The RSS, which consciously kept aloof from the glorious freedom struggle, finds itself in a peculiar bind: it has to brandish itself as the sole repository of nationalism, but it lacks an authentic icon of freedom to call its own. To rid itself of this embarrassing lacuna, it resorts to appropriating figures like Bhagat Singh, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the ideology the Sangh espouses.
The authors elucidate the history of China’s People’s Communes as told through the lens of three present-day rural villages. In these villages, they observe the effects of the project’s dismantling and diminishing collective ownership and land management, with the conclusion that a return to collectivism is vital for carrying forward the socialist project.
In the dogmatic scheme of things then,‘Vande Mataram’ was more of a religious war cry to establish Hindu glory, before it became a political chant for freedom against the British.
‘The Legacy of the Progressive Writer’s Association Needs to be Reclaimed’: Reviving the PWA’s activist legacy requires reconnecting art and literature to real struggles, confronting injustice, and defending truth, resistance and solidarity. Also: ‘Urdu Poet Josh Malihabadi (1898-1982) was a Fiery Voice of Freedom’.
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