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Scheduled Tribes: Adivasi or Vanvasi
The BJP people call Adivasis as Vanvasi, the Forest Dwellers. RSS had formed Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram in 1952 to Hinduize…
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Politics of polarization and attacks on syncretic traditions
The democratic narrative where people’s problems should be at the forefront needs to be boosted with full energy. By Dr.…
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Diversity, not divisiveness is the goal for secular India
Unnoticed though, the communal fault lines run so deep now that young people feel compelled to yell out their religion’s…
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The Civic Character of Indian Nationalism
As a consequence of their idealist culturalism, the cultural nationalists crudely spiritualize secular thought through Hindu exceptionalism. Yanis Iqbal With…
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Controversy over Anti-Conversion Law in Karnataka India
Right wing organizations, supported by leaders of the ruling BJP, are preparing the ground for an anti-conversion law in the…
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India’s disturbing religious persecution
Religion in India is fairly diverse—with large numbers of Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Christians. Historically, there has been friction…
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Tough times for Narendra Modi’s politics
The situation now is somewhat similar to what it was nearly four decades ago, and fertile for the re-emergence of…
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Living by mythological stories…
Indians can claim to fight at the borders but, in a strange paradox are allowed to die, in the tens…
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Observations of an Expat: India Imagined
The confusion and polarization means more political rallies, more Hindu festivals, less transparency, more lies, more corruption, more division and…
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Bengal: Acts of vandalism are no accidents
Acts of vandalism during the electioneering in Bengal are not accidents. The Hindutva forces are attacking on the distinct and…
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