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Modi targeting Muslim community of our country in his campaign speeches have no parallel in the electoral history of independent India. Jawaharlal Nehru had warned that employing communal rhetoric for votes would put the unity and integrity of the people and country in peril.
An EAC-PM paper claims that the Hindu share of India’s population has fallen between 1950 and 2015 by 7.8%, while that of Muslims has increased by 43% over the same period. The authors question the methodology followed in the paper and hence its findings. Also, extract from: Banjot Kaur, ‘Fact Check: Old Data, New Spin in PM-EAC Report on India’s Population’.
How Hate Has Been Normalised, Behaviourally and Institutionally, in Modi’s India; Modi’s Hypocritical Doublespeak About Religion and the Constitution; At Rae Bareli, a Picture of Contrasts in Amit Shah and Priyanka Gandhi.
Since 2014, when PM Modi arrived in Varanasi to contest the Lok Sabha elections and promised to turn Varanasi into Kyoto, the city has been in demolition and construction mode – to corner Hindu votes across the country and in the process benefit corporates and builders. The people of Varanasi are turning out to be the biggest losers in this bargain.
As a devout Ram bhakt, Gandhi’s idea of Ram and of Ram Rajya was a completely different one from the exclusionist and majoritarian Hindutva one that we see in circulation today. Also, extract from: ‘Gandhi’s Ram Rajya Was No Hindu Raj’.
A People’s Initiative to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi on the 30th of January 2024, as a day of national unity, communal harmony, non-violence & peace.
‘Replug: Netaji Wasn’t a Friend of Hindutva, But its Adversary’: The appropriation of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose by BJP-RSS erases the historical reality that Netaji, throughout his life, stood against the values that Hindutva propagates. Also: ‘Ram Temple Consecration Stands in Sharp Contrast to Netaji’s Vision of Secular India’.
‘Dharmic SEZ and “Hindu Renaissance”: Ram Rajya for the Rich’; ‘Temple Construction Meant Small Business Owners in Ayodhya Lost Money – and Hope’; ‘Survival at Stake: Meat, Liquor Ban Hits Livelihoods of Thousands in Ayodhya’; ‘Ayodhya: All Eyes Skyward at Grand Temple; Shopkeepers Left With Rubble Below’; ‘When Death Came Knocking on a Family in Ayodhya’.
Nearly 150 years after his birth, the revolutionary leader remains revered. But right-wing supporters seek to appropriate him in service of their politics.
Abhishek Choudhary’s new biography of Atal Behari Vajpayee examines the life and legacy of India’s first BJP prime minister, puncturing misguided liberal nostalgia and the hero-worship of the Hindu Right.
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