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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Although communal forces were dealt with sternly in the first few years after Independence, limiting them to the fringe, they have, over the years, received tacit support from the political class, helping them grow their base over the last few decades.
On the acts of courage, which symbolised the syncretic heritage of the subcontinent, amid the communal savagery that marked the Partition of India.
It’s been 40 years since over 2,000 Muslims were slaughtered in Assam’s Nellie town. The ghosts of Nellie continue to haunt India even today every time we overlook an incident of hate speech or let perpetrators of violence to go scot-free.
In 2002, there must have been ministers that thought K. Subrahmanyam – who was well over 70 at the time – had been ‘vicious’ in calling a democratically chosen leader an ‘asura’. Mercifully, none of them attacked him for being old.
For so many young Indian Muslims today, social media feeds have begun looking like a visitors’ diary outside a busy graveyard.
Changing the name of Mughal Gardens reflects the unwarranted inferiority complex of the present-day moguls and their parochial chauvinism.
The ‘Shaheen Bagh’ activism of women draws upon Ambedkar’s legacy to make connections between the attack on the citizenship of Muslims and the slide back in constitutional values.
The tide of communalism that was threatening to submerge the nation was pushed back with a Herculean effort on the part of India’s national leadership. For almost a decade, communal forces remained on the back-foot. They made a poor showing even in the 1957 elections.
Interview with Rajendra Tiwari, the former mahant of the Vishwanath Temple, regarding the Gyanwapi mosque dispute.
Full text of Nehru’s speech to the Constituent Assembly on February 2, 1948: “A glory has departed and the sun that warmed and brightened our lives has set and we shiver in the cold and dark.”
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