SC’s Shaheen Bagh Order: Fundamental Rights for Commuters, No Country for Protesters
The SC judgment on designated protest spaces is not only un-implementable, but also profoundly elitist and anti-women.
North East Delhi Pogrom: India’s Top IPS, IAS, Eminent Former Judges to Probe Riots
Committee of Justices AP Shah, Anjana Prakash, Madan Lokur, civil servants RS Sodhi, GK Pillai, Meeran Chadha Borwankar, will conduct independent probe into riots, including role of Delhi Police.
Book Review: Unpacking Religious Nationalism
Book Review: Ram Puniyani, ‘Religious Nationalism – Social Perceptions and Violence: Sectarianism on Political Chessboard’, 2020.
Babri Masjid Demolition a Criminal Act and CBI Court Verdict Must Be Challenged
NAPM condemns the criminal neglect of the prosecution in the case and complete denial of the findings of the Liberhan Commission.
The Many Legacies of Shankar Guha Niyogi
Niyogi and CMSS can offer intellectual and practical ideas on how to counter the normalisation of Hindutva discourse.
A Hindu Papacy?
In India, we appear to have succumbed to some ultramontane form of Hinduism, though in this setting, the Prime Minister is the figurative Pope.
Kashi-Mathura: Will Temple Politics be Revived?
The success of right wing forces to increase their clout through the Ram Temple campaign may prompt them to go in this direction, which is detrimental to the progress and development of the country.
Tablighi Jamaat: Vindicated, Finally
Bombay High Court quashes the FIRs against 29 foreigners and six Indian members of the Tablighi Jamaat and chastises the police for “non-application of mind”, hopefully drawing the curtain on the sustained vilification of the largest Muslim organisation in the country.
Swami Agnivesh – The Man Who Sought to Retrieve the Colour Bhagwa from Opportunists: Three Obituaries
He devoted his life to India’s most marginalised and to the cause of secularism.
A Politics of Avoidance that Must be Questioned
The dropping of Question Hour in Parliament, which helps the government feel the nation’s pulse, goes against the grain of democracy.