As Violence Against Muslims Escalates, Online Hindutva Propaganda Pushes Economic Boycott
Social media propaganda, complete with hashtags, trends and concocted videos, seems to have one single aim: to boycott Muslim-owned and run businesses.
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A Little Known Book Offers a Cautionary Tale on the ‘Us Versus Them’ Ideology
The intensely researched work, which came before the current politicised antagonism towards the Mughals, ‘Mughal Samrat Akbar Aur Sanskrit’ is a unique volume.
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What the Myth of ‘Love Jihad’ Tells Us about the Hindu Right
It underlines their vicious Islamophobia, investment in controlling female sexuality, and a preference for religious segregation.
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With COVID-19, India Experienced its Greatest Mortality Crisis Since Independence
Recent estimates made by the Economist suggest that the global toll of the pandemic is 16 million, more than three times the official toll of COVID-19 deaths. Estimates of India’s pandemic excess deaths range from between 3 to 5 million deaths, a quarter of total global pandemic deaths.
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Assam’s Evictions are Turning Skilled Bengali Muslim Farmers into Labourers
In driving out ‘illegal encroachers’ from farms for an agriculture project that does not interest native Assamese, the BJP govt is dispossessing productive Bengali Muslim farmers, many of whom say they bought land from locals and have been paying land taxes, some for up to 70 years.
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That Unremembered Agony: Gandhi’s First Birthday in Independent India
Said Gandhi on that day in 1947, “Indeed, today is my birthday…. This is for me a day of mourning. I am still lying around alive. I am surprised at this, even ashamed that I am the same person who once had crores of people hanging on to every word of his. But today no one heeds me at all…”
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Reimagining India on Gandhian Lines
In the context of the challenges India is facing in different facets of human life including political, economic, social and religious, Gandhian ideas and principles could serve as a frame of reference when we are reimagining the vision of a better India.
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The Violent Video from a Recent Eviction Drive Should be a Moment of Reckoning for Assamese Society
In a state with a tortured history of anti-immigrant resentment, every policy decision can have potentially seismic effects. Assam needs a strong movement to counter the actions of a casteist, communal state.
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By Attacking the Mughals, Adityanath Is Erasing the History of His Own Nath Sampradāy
All through the Mughal rule, various Naths, including those of Gorakhpur, received gifts and grants from the emperors. Official temple literature also attests to this.
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Post-Historical Political Necrophilia in Assam
In Assam, a Muslim body was not only gunned down, but a government photographer decided to humiliate it by jumping and kicking that body. After displaying such necrophilia, the photographer was hugged by some of the policemen present.
