How TCS Nashik Case Was Turned from Probe into Communal Narrative
As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Kafka Would Understand: Even Dead Must Prove They’re Dead
The story from Odisha is not just a reminder about a brother and his dead sister. It is about the distance between policy and practice.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Scheduled Caste Status of Christians and Muslims: The Supreme Court Judgement and Lived Realities – 2 Articles
‘The Law and Reality: Are Dalits Not Dalits if They Convert to Christianity or Islam?’: Could the Supreme Court have ended up engineering a profound collision between theories of constitutional jurisprudence and the bloody, dirt-caked realities of rural India? Also: ‘Explainer: What the Law Says on “Scheduled Caste” Status of Christians and Muslims’.
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Draconian Law!
The bogey of ‘forced’ conversion and the introduction of anti-conversion laws (strangely called ‘Freedom of Religion’) are part of a well-oiled strategy of the ‘Sangh Parivar’. These laws are blatantly unconstitutional. On 5 March, Maharashtra became the 13th state to enact such a law.
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Religion and the Uniform: Concerns Over the Armed Forces’ Secular Character – 2 Articles
‘Hollowing Out the Uniform of the Armed Forces’: The risk is not that military officers are religious, but that the institutions they man are beginning to look religiously positioned. Also: ‘Military Veterans Express Concern Over Serving Officers Publicly Associating with Godmen, Religious Events’.
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Communalism | Culture | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Two Songs, Two Visions: TM Krishna on Why India Chose ‘Jana Gana Mana’ Over ‘Vande Mataram’
The Carnatic vocalist and public intellectual argues that India must defend its founding symbols and also reimagine their meaning for a changing time.
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The Hollowing Out of Our Universities – 4 Articles
‘“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’.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Aggressive Majoritarianism Crippled Pakistan. Will India Fare Differently?
The merging of faith with State has not worked out well anywhere.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Secularism is a Stick with Which to Beat Multiculturalists
The philosopher argues that in modern liberal states, secularism has become a cudgel used by elites to oppose multicultural accommodations for religious minorities.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Living Under the Gaze: Muslims, Majoritarian India, and Acts of Quiet Defiance – 3 Articles
‘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’.
