How Modi Is Trying to Use Gandhi’s Name to Whitewash His Dark Record
The plan to reshape the Mahatma’s Sabarmati Ashram is an act of vandalism.
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The New ‘Republic of Fear’
The law in India has been weaponised by the state as the most effective tool of persecution of all those who dissent. We are now in a paradoxical situation where constitutional values professed by the state are being violated in the name of upholding the law.
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The ‘Love Jihad’ Bogey in Kashmir Is Another Attempt to Deny Women Freedom of Choice
This hate propaganda assumes that adult women who consent to relationships with Muslims are gullible and must be rescued by gallant men.
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How Assam is Turning Beef into a Federal Issue
Assam’s new Cattle Preservation Bill violates Article 48 of the Constitution and will give a fillip to vigilantism.
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UP ATS Wants to Snatch Our Sole Breadwinners, Claim Kin of Those Arrested in Lucknow with Alleged Terror Links
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey alleged that many innocent people were also arrested earlier on “false charges of terrorism”. He said dozens of youth have been later acquitted by courts after they had spent several years behind bars.
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Exporting Oppression: Israel’s Profitable Arms Industry
Israel is one of the world’s most militarized and securitized countries. It is also the eighth largest arms exporter in the world. Through its arms exports, Israel is shaping the coercive dimensions of states everywhere, bringing the politics and methodology of occupation to its allies abroad.
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I Raise My Voice for Adivasis, am I a Traitor?
In this open letter written in August 2018 after he was charged with sedition, Fr Stan Swamy listed all the activities that have made him a ‘Desh Drohi’: “During the past two decades, I have identified myself with the Adivasi people and their struggle for a life of dignity and self-respect….”
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Why Gandhi’s Use of Oxygen as a Metaphor during the Freedom Struggle has Resonance for India Today
Freedom of opinion and freedom of association are ‘the two lungs that are absolutely necessary for a man to breathe the oxygen of liberty’, he wrote.
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Busting Myths About Muslim Population Growth in India
The threat of a declining Hindu population and growing minority numbers lacks a basis in logic and facts.
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In the Time of Legitimate Despair, India Needs Unreasonable Hope
It is imperative to ‘be unreasonable’ in a dark time! Not only does it keep hope alive in oneself, but it also inspires it in others, too. Despair may be contagious, but courage is much more so.
