Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Evaluating Indian Kings: Tipu Sultan
Tipu stands very tall in the scale of religious tolerance. The half-baked propaganda of the communal forces is trying to divide communities.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
RSS and Bhagat Singh: From Derision to Appropriation
The RSS, which consciously kept aloof from the glorious freedom struggle, finds itself in a peculiar bind: it has to brandish itself as the sole repository of nationalism, but it lacks an authentic icon of freedom to call its own. To rid itself of this embarrassing lacuna, it resorts to appropriating figures like Bhagat Singh, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the ideology the Sangh espouses.
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Communal Governance and Production in Rural China Today
The authors elucidate the history of China’s People’s Communes as told through the lens of three present-day rural villages. In these villages, they observe the effects of the project’s dismantling and diminishing collective ownership and land management, with the conclusion that a return to collectivism is vital for carrying forward the socialist project.
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Baffling Silence Over Bankim-da’s Bigotry
In the dogmatic scheme of things then,‘Vande Mataram’ was more of a religious war cry to establish Hindu glory, before it became a political chant for freedom against the British.
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The Legacy of the Progressive Writer’s Association Needs to be Reclaimed; In Memory of Urdu Poet Josh Malihabadi – 2 Articles
‘The Legacy of the Progressive Writer’s Association Needs to be Reclaimed’: Reviving the PWA’s activist legacy requires reconnecting art and literature to real struggles, confronting injustice, and defending truth, resistance and solidarity. Also: ‘Urdu Poet Josh Malihabadi (1898-1982) was a Fiery Voice of Freedom’.
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Bangladesh’s Liberation Under Siege; Is This the Bangladesh We Wanted – 2 Articles
‘Bangladesh’s Liberation Under Siege’: As Bangladesh marks the victory of its 1971 liberation, the secular, socialist foundations of the nation’s birth are under assault by the convergence of US geopolitical interests with religious fundamentalism. Also: ‘Is This the Bangladesh We Wanted?’.
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Death, Dying, and Everything that Follows in Assam
In Assam’s detention centre for suspected foreigners, the state wages an attritional assault against the lives of the detained. But that is only one part of a majoritatian fantasy to create a sinister ethno-racial utopia.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
We Need to Understand the Plight of Kashmiris – 2 Articles
‘Consider Kashmir’: Kashmiris are fearful for their lives, their employment and the future of their children. It is necessary now more than ever to study the factors that point towards the volatility of Kashmir. Also: ‘A Conflict No One Asked For’.
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Have We All Forgotten Sanjiv Bhatt?
We speak of democracy, freedom, and justice—but sometimes nations betray their bravest voices. Sanjiv Bhatt, once a senior police officer who dared to speak uncomfortable truth about the 2002 Gujarat carnage, sits in prison. His crime? Not murder. Not corruption. But refusal to bow before power.
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Islam vs the West: The Four Biggest Fallacies About Islam Unpacked
Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State?
