Humra Quraishi Two pogroms in the recent history of the country – the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 and the North East Delhi pogrom of 2020 – took place around this time of the year, the supposed Spring time. Leaving back hundreds perished in every sense of the term. And what …
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(The Wire) Though Hindutva's abominable showman fulfils all the criteria sketched out in parliament by Union home minister Amit Shah in his description of a 'terrorist', India's black laws appear reserved for the regime's opponents.
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(The Wire) Indians and Pakistanis with ancestral roots in Chakwal plan to be part of a unique meeting that hopes to cherish oneness and rekindle a sense of shared roots.
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Ruben Banerjee The far-right Bharatiya Janata Party and its Hindutva ideology are becoming more deeply entrenched in the country’s south, with sinister consequences for Muslims and other minorities. Gauri Lankesh was a feisty journalist who wrote acerbic pieces against religious hatred, bigotry and social inequalities. Her words stung those at …
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(The Wire) Current figures on social and development issues have landed India at the bottom of the livable index scale. But as long as the temple continues to function as the state and the state as the temple, little is likely to change.
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(The Wire) A significant section of non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dalits who have been loyal voters of the BJP since 2014 are deserting ship in central and eastern UP.
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(The Wire) US government invoked the ‘Magnitsky’ process earlier this year to sanction Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion.
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Siddharth Varadarajan The Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat which first gave us Narendra Modi and Amit Shah has now delivered a cartoon of such depravity and venom that it simultaneously reminds us of Nazi propaganda against the Jews and the celebratory visuals of lynchings that racists in the southern United …
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(The Wire) Dehumanising language and provocative remarks characterise the orations of members of the saffron party who target not only Muslims but non-BJP voters and candidates as well.
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(The Wire) Our leaders have taken India to the very edge of the abyss. My desperate hope is only that enough of us don’t shut down our conscience.
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