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India’s most populous hill state Uttarakhand is in unprecedented turmoil. It is the first State in India in which an influential and popular campaign for ethnic cleansing has gathered ominous momentum: a battle for the expulsion of all Muslims from the State.
Over the last nine months, there have been at least 41 incidents of a communal nature that culminated in violence and tensions. A database that tracks hate crime found that nearly a third of all hate speech reported in India over the first six months of this year came from Maharashtra.
In a remarkable coincidence, irrefutable evidence of ‘the RSS connection’ with Gandhi’s assassination surfaced in recent years – just as it was about to claim the Gandhian heritage.
When the Supreme Court considers the challenge to the Act, it would do well to remember that it represents the legacy of the freedom movement, the secular principles of a former socialist leader from Ayodhya, Acharya Narendra Dev, and the majority view of an earlier house.
Are the people who stood around, watched, clapped, and cheered when Ramesh Bidhuri dishonoured a fellow citizen of this country and his community, not complicit in brutal hate speech that tars an entire community?
‘This government is hell-bent on removing the signs that point to the Muslim history and Muslim culture of the national capital.’
There have been 525 attacks against Christians in India just in the first eight months of 2023. This year will likely cross the violent record set in 2022, and in 2021 before that.
He was fired from his job for stopping the vehicle to allow two Muslim passengers to pray. In India today, even an act of friendship and fraternity towards Muslims has become an act of deviance and a crime. This is far from the spirit foreseen by the founders of our constitutional republic.
Pakistan failed to develop into a bourgeois nation state, and Israel has no intention of becoming one.
The author’s latest book is an effort to challenge the Sangh Parivar’s depiction of the spiritual leader.
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