Muslims in India
The Hindutva forces with explicit support of the ruling BJP are making the Muslim space in Indian landscape invisible.
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Ram Mandir
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.
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Forgetting 6 December is a National Shame
On 22 January, I don't know what Indian Muslims will do or what their places of worship will look like. They may mourn. Who cares?
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Reading Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” in New Year’s Eve
Those, on that inauguration day, who refuse to sing "carolings/ Of such ecstatic sound" of ‘Jai Shri Ram” will be punished. Wait. Whys? You already know. You learn when and how after the 2024 Lok Sabha election result.
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Against Forgetting: The need to remember the 6th of December
The business of progressive politics in this precarious time is to remember, not forget, the instrumental and ideological violence of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement.
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