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Feb 12, 2019
Hinduism denies spiritual rights to Shudras, Dalits and Adivasis
Societies in different parts of the world have introduced reforms towards equality but the RSS-BJP wants to take the spiritual system of Hinduism backward. This is the most dangerous situation India is facing today. Unfortunately, we are all witnesses to that process. -
Feb 06, 2019
Congress betrays political heritage by invoking NSA for cow slaughter, risks compromising opposition to BJP
The politics of majoritarian mobilisation is central to the BJP’s political philosophy, the Congress, on the other hand, has historically been a broad church. It will never be able to compete on this terrain with conviction -
Feb 06, 2019
BJP has ensured cow protection becomes universal brand of politics; Congress-led govt invoking NSA in MP a typical example
The cow has turned into a potent political totem, much like the seasonal iftar photo-ops, ever since BJP graduated from Ram mandir politics to gau mata politics. -
Feb 06, 2019
Mamata Banerjee's Kolkata dharna: Bid to detain Rajeev Kumar overtly political move to assert Centre's right, dismiss Didi's delusions
The history of the case bears significance in the present context as Mamata on Monday sat on dharna in Kolkata to protect Kumar who is suspected to have tinkered with evidence in the scam. Mamata, known for hitting streets and rabble-rousing for populist causes, seems to have reversed her politics in her constitutional role. She is seen as taking the side of the corrupt and protecting a few of her favourites at the expense of masses. -
Feb 02, 2019
The politics of toxic textbooks: History isn't repeated, it's rewritten
If you can’t make history, then just make it up. This strategy, that India’s political parties relish exercising when in power to further their ideological footprints, is a textbook case of what ails the country’s education system -
Jan 30, 2019
Hindu Mahasabha leader 'recreates' Mahatma Gandhi's assassination in Uttar Pradesh, garlands Nathuram Godse's statue
Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) leader Puja Shakun Pandey decided to 'celebrate' the occasion by shooting at an effigy of Gandhi from a toy gun. -
Jan 30, 2019
US warning of communal violence ahead of LS polls worrying, but singling out India amid global rise of hate crime is a stretch
The US ODNI intelligence singling out India, warning communal violence ahead of General Election to Lok Sabha, may indicate a certain bias, but a global rise of hate only makes that threat more serious, not less -
Jan 20, 2019
BJP's bid to polarise populace, aided by silent and complicit media, has left Indian democracy in disarray
A closer look at the trajectory of Indian politics and society in the past five years shows us that much has indeed changed since the BJP came to power. -
Jan 19, 2019
BJP needs Karnataka to push its hardline Hindutva politics ahead of general elections; Congress unfazed by reprised strategy
Ahead of the general election, the BJP needs Karnataka for two reasons — one, to dislodge the idea that a coalition government can function well so the party leadership gets to snub the mahagatbandhan (grand alliance) at the national level, and two, to carry on its Hindutva politics. -
Jan 18, 2019
BJP's manouevre over Citizenship Bill alienates North East; goal of Hindu consolidation could prove illusory
Though religious identities are important in the North East, they are interpenetrated by other identities based mainly on ethnic (often tribal) and linguistic solidarities, which is why the BJP’s Citizenship Bill, designed to consolidate Hindus outside the Hindutva constituency did not go down very well in the region
