Full Text: ‘Damage to Indian Democracy Under Modi Is Lasting’
The noted academic and journalist says India has transformed into an illiberal, majoritarian and intolerant country with an authoritarian regime under Narendra Modi.
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Ali Ibrahim Khan and Narendra Modi: the Past and Present of Kashi Vishwanath
The Prime Minister thanks Maharani Ahilya Bai Holkar and Maharaja Ranjit Singh for being the inspiration behind the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor Project. However, both of these did not construct the corridor. It was built by Nawab Ali Ibrahim Khan, whom the PM has chosen to ignore.
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Communalism | Culture | Fascism | India | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | Online Blog
The Age of the Unicorn, Brought to You by IIT Kharagpur
The geniuses at IIT Kharagpur have come up with a new hoax. They have declared the unicorn that appears on Indus valley seals to be a representation of “sage Risya Sringa” of the Ramayana, thus “proving” that those ancient carvers of the Indus valley seals were one and the same as the Vedic people.
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Communalism | Culture | Fascism | India | Indian Politics | Online Blog
Hindi and Urdu
The politics in the country was not as divisive and toxic in the sixties, when I was a child, as it is now. Urdu, for we siblings, was a secular language and not associated with a community or religion.
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A Place of Hope in a Time of Spiralling Crisis
The eKhenana occupation in Cato Manor, Durban, is a significant site in the struggle for a South Africa that respects the humanity of all.
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Pakistan Is Lost to Intolerance, but There’s Still Ishrat Afreen’s Poetry
Though Ishrat Afreen remains forgotten and neglected in her own country, she is an institution unto herself.
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A Dharma That Calls for Violence Is No Dharma at All
When self-appointed custodians of Hindus call for ethnic cleansing in the name of dharma, they conveniently ignore the basic precepts of the religion. The philosophy of Hinduism is constituted by a deep commitment to satya and ahimsa. Many stories in our epics illustrate this commitment.
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Why the Hindu Extremists Behind #BulliBai Feel Threatened By These Indian Muslim Women
Women journalists and activists; academics and students; two office bearers of the Congress Party; authors, a lawyer, a historian, a radio jockey, a famous actor, all Muslim women, were ‘sold’ in an online hate crime on New Year. Besides their identity, they had something else in common.
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Annus Horribilis 2021 Leaves India Frayed, but Fight Must Continue; Also: 2021 – The Year of Evictions
Our normal was bad enough with communal strife and anti-Dalit violence, but the new normal is far worse. Hate became the calling card of 2021, and India went several rounds down the spiral. Also: A report by HLRN says that over a quarter of a million people were evicted in India during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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How Modi Govt’s Policies in 2021 Inflamed Rather Than Diffused Conflict in Kashmir
Sweeping political and administrative changes pushed unilaterally by Modi government in the region, coupled with strong-armed policing tactics, have continued to deepen anger, fuelling a furious blowback in the region this year.
