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In driving out ‘illegal encroachers’ from farms for an agriculture project that does not interest native Assamese, the BJP govt is dispossessing productive Bengali Muslim farmers, many of whom say they bought land from locals and have been paying land taxes, some for up to 70 years.
Police accusations against the journalist, if accepted by the courts, will push the boundaries of what is legally credible and rewrite free-speech guarantees.
In a state with a tortured history of anti-immigrant resentment, every policy decision can have potentially seismic effects. Assam needs a strong movement to counter the actions of a casteist, communal state.
All through the Mughal rule, various Naths, including those of Gorakhpur, received gifts and grants from the emperors. Official temple literature also attests to this.
In Assam, a Muslim body was not only gunned down, but a government photographer decided to humiliate it by jumping and kicking that body. After displaying such necrophilia, the photographer was hugged by some of the policemen present.
The representation of Muslims in cinema is complex: it involves both surrender and pushback, says renowned film scholar Ira Bhaskar.
One would not expect an activist working on Dalit rights to join such a protest. My reasons for doing so are many. Personally for me, Gandhi’s personal struggle against untouchability within his Ashram has been inspirational …
The dread of would-be dispossession is tangible for millions of Muslims across Assam, in its villages and cities, the char areas (river islands), and World Heritage sites.
For Hindutva, which is not a spiritual or religious world view but a doctrinaire, authoritarian political programme, Hinduism is a mere prop.
Theodore Abel’s ‘Why Hitler Came Into Power’ is a unique and frightening text from within the minds and consciousness of people who went on to become Nazis.
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