I Could Not Be Hindu : The Story of a Dalit in the RSS: A Review
The memoir elaborates in detail on how the essence of Hindu communalism is social exclusion, while the essence of Ambedkarism lies in social inclusion.
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When Stone Walls Cry: The Nehrus in the Prison
In these strange times, even universities and the students are being targeted. Reading provides a refuge, or as some may call it, an escape from the everyday theaters of eccentricities and violence. It was a respite to pick up The Nehrus in Prison (2016) by Mushirul Hasan.
The Myth of Damaging Identity Politics
There are two definitions of identity politics. The first is the effort to secure the rights denied to some on the basis of their identity—defensive identity politics. The second is that which seeks domination on the basis of identity—aggressive identity politics. Aggressive identity politics espoused by the majority is thought to be ‘natural and benign’. And identity politics, as practised by the blacks, the Asians, the minorities and the disadvantaged, is thought to be ‘dangerous, indulgent and damaging’.
Review of Khan’s City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh
It explores the everyday Hindu-Muslim strifes in the U.K (Upar Kot, not to be confused with the United Kingdom), a part of the town of Aligarh (130 kms southeast of Delhi) in Uttar Pradesh, since the 1990s.
Jail Diary of Bhagat Singh: The Mind of a Martyr
It records his own thoughts on freedom, poverty and class struggle and thoughts on varied political thinkers and intellectuals.
Ram Mandir: the Hindutva Way
The construction of the Ram Mandir won't lead to an apocalypse, but the common sense of the Republic will have shifted.
Life and Legacy of John Pilger
Pilger's legacy is best in his lifelong commitment to telling challenging power structures and giving voice to the voiceless.
Hindutva Pop: A Review
Can a song trigger a murder?Can a poem spark a riot?Can a book divide a people? By…
Vaidik on Indian Lynching
The perpetrators of this violence have not always been the state, the rulers, the police or the army but also our silence. Our looking away from inconvenient truths, our blindness to our social privilege, and in our ability to pass off our unearned privilege as merit or as advantages earned by hard work.
Excerpt from Adisa Ajamu II’s The New Lynchings
t is a protest against the lynchings of the black African-Americans. It attests the poet's rage against the white lynchers and the state which is in complicit with the perpetrators.