1984, 1989, 2002: Three Narratives of Injustice, and the Lessons for Democracy
Why is it that mass injustice in the face of mass communal crimes has become such an established pattern of state practice in modern India?
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As Munawar Faruqui Case Shows, Questioning BJP’s Hindutva Project While Being a Muslim Can Land You in Jail
Several young Muslims have been locked up because they had the temerity to assert their right to equal citizenship.
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131st Birth Anniversary of Frontier Gandhi Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan–Who?
February 6 is the birth anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a prominent Indian freedom fighter, and a die-hard opponent of the two-nation theory and the idea of Pakistan. A firm believer in non-violence, he enjoyed the same stature in the NWFP as Gandhi had in India.
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Patriotism Has No Religion, and Here’s the Proof for Mohan Bhagwat to See
Followers of each religion, including Hinduism, have been unpatriotic at one point or another.
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Munawar Faruqui’s Case Shows How the Mob has Captured India’s Justice System
With no evidence against the comic, courts cite law and order as a reason to keep him in jail – an almost direct link between the mob and India’s justice system.
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UP’s ‘Love Jihad’ Ordinance – A Sarkari Honour Crime
The law represents an attempt by the BJP to push a toe out of the constitutional ambit, to begin to build the legal infrastructure of the Hindu Rashtra.
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The NRC in Assam Doesn’t Just Violate Human Rights of Millions, it Also Breaks International Law
India has defaulted on its international obligations by interning people in detention centres and depriving them of their right to nationality as well as the right not to be arbitrarily deprived of their nationality.
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Fascism, Imperialism, and Anti-Communism at the Capitol Hill Riots
The flags of U.S. client states, anti-communist regimes, and pre-revolution puppet states dotted the sea of MAGA hats and Confederate flags at the Capitol Hill mobs. Making sense of why requires understanding the convergence between imperialism abroad and fascism at home.
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Fundamentalists Make Hay While the Sun Shines
Perhaps, the rulers and administrators manning the State machinery, haven’t heard this verse of Baba Farid Shakarganj (1173-1265 AD): “Farid, the earth questioned the sky, Where are the mighty captains gone? / In their grave they rot, was the reply / And rebuked for tasks not done.”
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Historians Audrey Truschke and Ira Mukhoty on: ‘Love Jihad’ and Mughals
Time and again, the Mughals have been brought into the conversations around “Love Jihad”, with the argument that it was practiced widely in the subcontinent under its emperors. A conversation with two eminent historians on what do history and evidence say.
