Being Hindu in a Hindu Rashtra
For Hindutva, which is not a spiritual or religious world view but a doctrinaire, authoritarian political programme, Hinduism is a mere prop.
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Why People Flocked to Hitler, and Why the Nazis Believed ‘Here There Is No Why’
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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Neo-liberalism and Nationhood
There are crucial differences between the anti-colonial nationalism of the third world countries and European bourgeois nationalism. That is why the third world countries adopted a dirigeste capitalist development strategy, that insulated peasant agriculture from domestic and foreign capitalists. Neoliberalism is undermining this.
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UGC Framework – a Communalised Caricature of Indian History
The University Grants Commission’s draft history syllabus has dropped books by well-known historians, such as DD Kosambi, R S Sharma, DN Jha and Irfan Habib. The objective seems to be to glorify mythology rather than history, as also deny any Dravidian links to Harappan culture.
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Why the Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference Is Not ‘Hindu-phobic’
The event seeks to bring a long-delayed global awareness about the operations of an exclusionary and discriminatory ideology.
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Remembrance Must be an Act Affirming Man’s Humanity, Three Haunting Partition Classics Tell Us
Though unlike one another in tone and texture, ‘Adaab’, ‘Toba Tek Singh’ and ‘Garm Hawa’ have the same point of departure: that religion as the primary marker of identity is as irrational as it is abhorrent.
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The Prisoner’s Wife in a Jailed Republic
Chronicle of a woman’s life after her husband was arrested by Delhi Police.
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Modi Government’s Partisan Misuse of Institutions has Pushed the Indian Republic to the Brink
Excerpts from Harsh Mander’s JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture to mark the birth centenary of the former civil servant.
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What Muslim Intelligentsia Doesn’t Get About Bhagwat and RSS
The RSS chief said in a recent speech that dialogue is the way out of Hindu-Muslim discord. Can there be any such dialogue considering his own organisation fans this disharmony?
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Democracy, Distance, Difference, and Disrespect
Democracy is the only form of governance that cultivates the arts and crafts of governance at a respectful distance and always aims at the achievement of what the philosopher John Rawls called “overlapping consensus” for “reasonable pluralism”.
