How the Indian Govt Is Pushing Money Down a Mythological River
Science is slow, tedious and evidence riddled, while mythology provides quick and immediate results.
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Kashi ka Kabir: Reinterpreting a Poet’s Life and His Times
One cannot ‘read’ Kabir without ‘reading’ the genius of the indigenous mind on the one hand and the impact of colonial intervention on the other. The author says he realised this only gradually, during the long, painful and adventurous journey in search of his own relation with Kabir.
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Remember the Teenager Named Junaid Khan?
His lynching had sparked the #notinmyname campaign. However, four years later communal lynchings no longer seem to shock the public. A scary sign of the times.
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As an Indian Muslim, Here’s Why I Object to Dhannipur Complex Being Built in Lieu of Babri Masjid
By accepting land in lieu of justice, Muslims have sanctified their secondary status as a community that does not need justice.
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When Sardar Patel Took on the ‘Forces of Hate’ and Banned the RSS
“All their speeches were fill of communal poison,” he wrote after banning the Sangh in 1948. “As a final result of the poison, the country had to suffer the sacrifice of the invaluable life of Gandhiji.”
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Remembering Birsa Munda, the Social Reformer and Revolutionary Leader
For the Hindutva movement, Birsa Munda is an icon only because he and his followers attacked missionaries and the church. But this is a deliberate misreading of history and a willful deception.
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Why Emperor Ashoka and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are More Similar than We Might Imagine
An excerpt from historian Upinder Singh’s ‘Ashoka and Gandhi’, from ‘The Fourth Lion: Essays for Gopalkrishna Gandhi’.
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‘Shaheen Bagh and Mumbai Bagh, Sister Fields’: New Poems for Our Times
Excerpts from ‘Song of a Rebel and Other Selected Poems’ by Bina Sarkar Ellias.
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BJP-RSS Politics and Economic Plight of Dalits in India
The RSS and its political progeny, the BJP, pose to be associating with Dalits while their policies are meant to subjugate this community. Their policies are detrimental to the all round conditions of Dalits, including their economic conditions.
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How the RSS Network’s Incessant Generation of Lies Has Actively Damaged Our Brains
Nothing positive comes out of a deliberate induction of untruths in society. All it achieves is a population of sick hearts and weak minds.
