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The bogey of ‘forced’ conversion and the introduction of anti-conversion laws (strangely called ‘Freedom of Religion’) are part of a well-oiled strategy of the ‘Sangh Parivar’. These laws are blatantly unconstitutional. On 5 March, Maharashtra became the 13th state to enact such a law.
India’s linguistic diversity is being reframed as proof of an ancient cultural unity centred on Sanskrit, even though linguistic evidence points in the opposite direction.
The recent surge of foreign investment in India’s banking sector is driven mainly by India’s falling net FDI and external financial pressures. The authors warn that opening banking further to foreign capital could increase instability and India’s dependence on global finance.
In 2002, when larger media organisations refused to publish allegations against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a small-town newspaper editor did. Ram Chander Chhatrapati paid with his life. This story revisits the extraordinary courage of local journalists who challenged a powerful godman.
‘“Enough is Enough”: Goans Fight to Reclaim Selfhood Against Inept Governance’; ‘A Green Revolution in Goa’; ‘“Our Fight Is Everyone’s Fight”: A Diary of Goa’s Six-Day Protest Against Land-Regulation Changes’.
The retired professor of contemporary history from JNU says that Nehru is targeted because he embodied the core “idea of India” forged during the freedom struggle: secularism, democracy, anti-imperialism, social justice, and scientific temper – values fundamentally opposed to the current ruling dispensation.
What are the implications for India of the US-Israel attack on Iran? To understand this, we need to place this development in the context of the present world situation, and India’s political economy within that.
‘The Modi Magic Lies Dismantled’: While the swagger is gone, Modi is now unwittingly parading his failures before the nation. Also: ‘Prime Minister Modi Humiliated India During His Visit to Israel’; and: ‘Cowards Then and Cowards Now’.
The assault on Gaza shows how a population can be subjugated while maintaining international legitimacy. Hindutva’s interest in Israel is to learn this method.
‘Delay and Deference in India’s Courts and Other Institutions Have Normalised the Government’s Disregard of Laws and Constitutional Guarantees’; ‘The Communal, Criminal Injustice of the Stories of Bilkis Bano and Maya Kodnani’.
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