Tag: communalism

Bharat Bhushan: Autonomous Hindutva could devour both India and the BJP

With the rapid radicalisation of sections of Hindu society, the Hindutva project has become dangerously autonomous. It is no longer possible to see it only as an electoral strategy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Today one does not need to even presume the direct hand of the BJP or the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh behind Hindutva’s every move. Its exponential social… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Autonomous Hindutva could devour both India and the BJP

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Sondeghar village of Maharashtra: Hindus and Muslims signed a 100-year agreement to stop riots

Sondeghar is a small village in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. The place the inhabitants is barely one thousand. Folks of all castes and religions stay collectively on this village. The village has unanimously taken a historic resolution in order that there needs to be no spiritual or communal dispute. Folks of all religions collectively within… Read More Sondeghar village of Maharashtra: Hindus and Muslims signed a 100-year agreement to stop riots

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Your Silence in the Face of Enormous Societal Threat Is Deafening: Former Civil Servants to Modi

More than 100 former civil servants have said that the recent instances of “hate violence against [India’s] minority communities, particularly Muslims” represent the “subordination of the fundamental principles of our constitution and of the rule of law to the forces of majoritarianism”, accusing the state of being “fully complicit” in this process. In a letter to… Read More Your Silence in the Face of Enormous Societal Threat Is Deafening: Former Civil Servants to Modi

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Narayani Gupta: The problem with cherry-picking facts from history

NB: A timely reminder of the vulnerability of historiography to ideology. There are some among us who wish to ‘rectify’ history; whose resentment at the past can never be satiated, neither by revising textbooks nor by bulldozing the homes of the poor. Their emotional affliction is best described by Friedrich Nietzsche: The will cannot will… Read More Narayani Gupta: The problem with cherry-picking facts from history

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P. B. Mehta: With eyes wide open, we’re hurtling into an abyss / In Jahangirpuri, bulldozers leave trail of despair

 Anyone who has ever genuinely immersed themselves in Ramcharitmanas will recognise the singular poignancy of one moment in the Sundarkand where Hanuman meets Sita. Until that point the story is hurtling towards disaster. Sita has been abducted. Ram is distraught and unsure of himself. But the moment Hanuman meets Sita is the point at which… Read More P. B. Mehta: With eyes wide open, we’re hurtling into an abyss / In Jahangirpuri, bulldozers leave trail of despair

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Bharat Bhushan: Communal djinn and the vanishing State

NB: It would appear that the ruling dispensation known as the Sangh Parivar wishes communal hatred to become widespread and ‘spontaneous’. Contrary to their expectations however, this push towards violently imposed homogeneity is not a step toward national unity but a recipe for disintegration and the end of the Indian Union as a law-governed state.… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Communal djinn and the vanishing State

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मौन मोदी के नाम भारत के मन की बात #SakshiJoshi

मौन मोदी के नाम भारत के मन की बात Our contributors are our viewers. Please Support independent journalism so we can bring you unbiased news without any pressure. Subscribe to SAKSHI JOSHI on youtube and facebook, like and share our video reports. comment more and more to expand its reach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBoI5YHbqY follow me on Twitter… Read More मौन मोदी के नाम भारत के मन की बात #SakshiJoshi

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The Kashmir Files

NB: Here are two reviews of The Kashmir Files, with different interpretations. Readers are welcome to their own conclusions. Since this is a matter I have spoken and written about for many years, I attach below a selection of my posts beneath the reviews, without further comment. DS The Kashmir Files: Cinema As Testimony. Siddhartha Gigoo K-Files… Read More The Kashmir Files

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Press Release: Commemorating Two Years of the Northeast Delhi Communal Riots

This February marks two years of the communal carnage that shook several localities of Northeast Delhi. To mark the carnage, and take forward the much-needed discourse on the lives of the victims, a group of concerned citizens and organisations – comprising National Federation of Indian Women (NIFW), All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), Constitutional Conduct… Read More Press Release: Commemorating Two Years of the Northeast Delhi Communal Riots

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Police in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh accused of unlawful killings

According to police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, it was suicide. The young Muslim man they had brought into their custody had, out of despair, killed himself in the police station toilets. But, as photos of the scene emerged, so too did suspicions. The 22-year-old man, Altaf, was 165cm (5ft 5in) tall and… Read More Police in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh accused of unlawful killings

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