Partition and the fate of Muslims in the subcontinent
By Shah Nawaz Afaque
The BJP Chief Minster from UP, Yogi Adityanath made a similar statement claiming that Indian Muslims did no favour to India by staying back.
AAP’s victory in Delhi should make us more vigilant
By Shahid Jamal
The continuous ideological attack along with political setback are the need of hour to eliminate the toxic polarization of the RSS and the BJP. The AAP must understand that it will never pose a challenge to the BJP and the RSS as long as it follows the same path.
‘Jai Shri Ram’ and other neologisms
By Immanuel Nehemiah
Savarkar was anything but a traditionalist. He was very modern, wrote against caste and was radical in many ways. And so was Hindutva.
Bare Lives: On the Political Redundancy and the Social Choice of #MainBhiChowkidar
By Soma Mandal
The term ‘chowkidar’ is not a marker of social respect because of its positionality in the lower orders of job profiling. As employment surveys indicate, it is mostly the uneducated, poor, rural, Dalit, OBC, minorities, the Gorkha community, and people from the lower classes who become chowkidars in metropolitan cities and towns.
Ram Temple Mobilization: How to Defeat Divisive Forces
By Abhay Kumar
My mother worships Lord Rama but she has never shown any interest in the disputed site. She has never shown her desire to get the Ram Temple built on the same place of Babri Masjid. For her, her Ram is with her. Her Ram does not live in Ayodhya at the site of the Babri Masjid nor does He live in Nagpur, Ashoka Road or R.K. Puram in New Delhi.
The Statue of Unity: Is it selective amnesia or double-speak of the BJP-RSS?
By Abhay Kumar
If the construction of Rs. 3000 crore statue of Patel is in national interest, then what about 75000 lives of Adivasis, who are badly affected by this project?
Finding the Balance between Development and the Right to Life
By J. Aslam Basha
If the PM truly intends to safeguard democracy, he must start listening to people and looking for solutions that people expect the government to provide. Exercise videos may be light hearted, but the government cannot lose sight of the real problems. It cannot ignore the safety and future of people, especially of those who are poor and marginalized.
The cycle of insane statements against Muslims during BJP’s rule
By Inamul Haq
Babar, Akbar, and Aurangzeb are evoked to divert the people’s attention, so that they forget the promises made when the government came to power. The agenda is to keep alive animosity between communities for electoral benefit.
Will the ‘better’ survive in India?
By Ananya S Guha
We are now living under conditions, where might is right and anarchy is let loose anywhere in the name of religion, caste, politics or community. So, Dalits cannot sport a moustache and cows cannot be used for economic benefit or as cattle.
‘Anti-National’ – The Hindu Right’s Corrosive Weaponized Word
By Ayesha Ray
The JNU episode ushered in a toxic phase where the word ‘anti-national’ gained alarming popularity and recognition even among India’s supposedly educated classes. Corrosive effects of this word took different forms: from statements made in “jest,” to vicious online abuse to disingenuous whataboutery to mob lynching.
The Shadow of Lynching
By Fahad Hashmi
The idea of ‘being a Muslim in contemporary India’, it could easily be inferred from happenings around us, is an ‘empty signifier’ where a Muslim could be one of these at a given place: a beef consumer, a trader of cows and calves, a child-lifter, a Romeo, a progeny of Babar, a Pakistani, a traitor, and, of course, a terrorist.
Christmas as Good Governance Day: Is it more than a Coincidence?
By Ananya S Guha
Is it more than a mere coincidence that both the days of Christmas and Good Friday have been declared National Governance and National Digital Days respectively? What does this mean? Good governance and digitization are part of a governance plan, to be worked out strategically. Why choose them on special days?
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