The Masterly Use of Universalism: Revisiting Satyajit Ray’s Cinema in 2023
His films are about the human condition and the ‘dailiness’ or undramatic aspects of life with no simple winners or losers.
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Inventing History to Inculcate Hatred
As secularism and reason are driven out, prejudice and ignorance extend their sway with disconcerting rapidity. A serious task awaits parties that are committed to a different future for the country, envisaging a truly secular democratic India.
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Nehru Warned About Majoritarianism Masquerading as Nationalism Six Decades Ago
Nehru consistently warned, right from the days of the freedom struggle, that conflating communalism and nationalism was the real danger to India.
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Exposing the ‘Forced Conversions’ Lie!
In a hard-hitting exposé on his weekly segment ‘Truth vs Hype’, released on 19 November, Srinivasan Jain, the popular TV anchor with NDTV, talks about the so-called ‘Forced Conversions’ with incontrovertible facts and the falsehoods and myths that are built around the issue!
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Lessons from the Rise of Mussolini, 100 Years on
Perhaps the greatest lesson is that Mussolini could have been stopped. Had the workers’ movement been united to confront the fascists, as it did in Parma, one of the darkest and most brutal chapters of European history might have been avoided.
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Iran’s Govt Scrambles to Contain Unrest as it Spreads to More Towns and Cities; Also: Press Release by IMSD
The large-scale protests against the Iranian government over the custodial death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who was arrested by the country’s notorious “morality” police for allegedly violating the strict law on headscarves has reportedly spread to about 80 cities and towns.
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Communalism | Communalism | Fascism | Human Rights | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | Print Edition | Privatization
Going, Going, Gone: Freedom and India, 2022
Is there to be any healing, any end to hate, and the cycle of deprivation as we begin the march to our century as an Independent Republic? For my children and theirs, for future generations of Indians, I devoutly hope so.
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Lessons in Anti-Fascist and Social Justice Solidarity in Sports
Book Review: John Feinstein, ‘Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports’. This book is a storehouse of inspiring anti-fascist and social justice stories.
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Turned Out You Were Just Like Us
English translation of Pakistani poet, human-rights activist and feminist, Fahmida Riaz, oft-quoted nazm, “Tum bilkul hum jaise nikle”.
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Voices Behind the Veil: The Human Cost of Karnataka’s Hijab Ban
Death threats, lost friendships and a bleak academic future — victims of Karnataka’s hijab ban continue to suffer.
