Does India Have the Moral Capacity to Hear Someone Like Syeda Hameed?
Who wants to understand Syeda Hameed’s pain today? Does India still have the desire to listen to someone like her?
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‘Vajpayee Helped Hindutva Organisations Move from the Margins of Democracy to the Mainstream’
This interview with biographer-historian Abhishek Choudhary, author of a major new work on A.B. Vajpayee, dismantles the liberal nostalgia that paints Vajpayee as a Nehruvian moderate, portraying instead a leader whose compromises and ideological loyalties helped clear the path for the unapologetic majoritarianism of today.
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Saint Gorakhnath’s Inclusive Legacy: Lalu Prasad’s Challenge to Hindutva
‘Gorakhnath’s “Stolen” Legacy: Lalu’s Cultural Counter to Hindutva Ahead of Bihar Election’: Lalu’s revelation that Gorakhnath stood for inclusivity, coexistence, love and a harmonious synthesis of Hindu and Muslim faiths has the potential to challenge the Hindutva narrative. Also: ‘An Introduction to Saint Gorakhnath and His Inclusive Legacy’.
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Aurangzeb a Severely Misunderstood Figure – 2 Interviews with Historian Audrey Truschke
‘Aurangzeb is a Severely Misunderstood Figure’; ‘A Caricature of “Aurangzeb the Bigot” Serves Many Modern Political Interests in India: An Interview with the Historian Audrey Truschke’: Truschke says that this depiction of Aurangzeb is both misleading and ahistorical.
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India has Lost its Moral Edge Because of Repression of its Minorities – 2 Articles
“View from Bangladesh: India Has Lost its Moral Edge as an Example of Handling Pluralism”: Systemic repression of its own minorities, especially Muslims, will not bring the country closer to security or stability. Also: “In Assam, ‘Indigenous’ Means Many Things—Until it Means Muslim”.
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Waqf Bill: Bulldozing Minority Rights – 3 Articles
The Bill sidesteps constitutional guarantees to sanction state intervention into the religious affairs of a community, barely concealing the intent to dispossess.
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Eid: Celebrating Unity Amidst Pain – 3 Articles
‘A Lunch on Eid’; ‘In Pain Yet Unbroken: Eid at Sambhal’; and: ‘An Iftar at Hazrat Nizamuddin’s Dargah, a Date with History’.
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Srebrenica Echoes: A Tribute to Agony and Resilience
In the silence, the cries of the past echo loudly, urging us to never forget and ensure that the horrors of genocide are consigned to history, never to be repeated.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen: A Lifelong Nazi – Two Articles
The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the party once known as the National Front, occurs at a time when the mainstreaming of far-right politics in France seems almost complete.
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The Dark Clouds of 1935 Nuremberg Have Gathered Over Indian Skies
The exclusion and criminalisation of Muslim citizens through laws and state action are not as explicit as in Nazi Germany, but they violate the Constitution.
