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Laila Tyabji Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of a state that has close to 44 million Muslims, over 19% of its population, said recently that Muslims did India no favour by staying on here. “Go back to Pakistan then,” is the response from the majoritarian Hindu Right every time an Indian Muslim dares criticise,…
Aamir H. Khan, Aban Usmani In October 1920, under the shadow of serious British colonial and imperial repression in various parts of the world, a group of influential Muslim leaders in India conceptualised the foundation of a nationalist university that would be free from British colonial control. Unrest had been simmering amongst Muslims…
Amey Tirodkar Its a tale of something extraordinary occurring in a tiny pocket of the country, one which could turn out to be important for the future of Indian democracy as well as for people’s movements in the country. A small village called Isalak has passed a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)…
Priyanjali Malik Seventy years ago this week, Soviet soldiers liberated the Auschwitz–Birkenau complex where they found about 7,000 desperately ill and emaciated prisoners and 600 corpses. They also found 370,000 men’s suits, 837,000 items of women’s clothing and 7.7 tonnes of human hair. And thus the efficient killing machine of the Third Reich…
Sandeep Pandey Personal Experience In 27 years of working as an activist, I’ve experienced unprecedented curbs on the fundamental rights of freedom of expression, to assemble peaceably and to move about anywhere within India over the past 6 months. I was put under house arrest in Lucknow, the capital of the north Indian…
Kavita Panjabi A republic truly comes of age when its women too claim it. The 71st Republic Day of India marked a proud year for this nation when its republic truly came of age. When millions of women begin to insist that the state is a matter of res publica, a public affair,…
Chitra Padmanabhan In The Black Jacobins, a classic work on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1803)—the only successful slave revolt in history, which erupted in the wake of the French Revolution—C.L.R. James describes a fascinating moment in the confrontation between Napoleon’s army and the slaves of the colony: “The soldiers still thought of themselves as…
Mala Jay India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) could trigger the “largest statelessness crisis in the world and cause widespread human suffering”, a powerful group of 154 European Parliament members have warned. In a scathing denouncement of CAA, the lawmakers have drafted a formal five-page resolution to be tabled during the plenary session of…
Badri Raina It is said that the way to hell is paved with good intentions. But did you ever imagine that the way to heaven may, conversely, be paved with not-so-good intentions? However the government of the day may protest that there has been no nefarious intent behind the discriminatory provisions of the…
Debasish Bhattacharjee Recently, much awaited migration data has been released by Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. While demographers are presumably busy analysing the data, certain preliminary observations are noteworthy, especially in the context of Assam where strong allegation of large-scale illegal migration from Bangladesh has assumed greater significance post NRC….
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