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Opinion Sep.13.19

Caste oppression is being reinvigorated

New India is newest in its love for regressive beliefs and repressive traditions, anti-scientific mindsets and primitive bullying
By The Editorial Board
Opinion Sep.9.19

Dalits' arrests in UP: a baseless attack on citizens' rights

The idea of a harmonious coexistence seems to be deeply abhorrent to the adherents of a particular majoritarian ideology
By The Editorial Board
Books Sep.6.19

The transformation of India into a malicious republic

Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India tries to chronicle the trajectory of post-Independence India from Nehru to Modi and does not shy away from raising uncomfortable questions
By Subhash Gatade
Opinion Sep.3.19

Indian nationhood: a masculine fantasy

In the Hindutva imagination, while the Kashmiri Muslim man is the ‘Other’, Kashmiri Muslim women are objects of fantasy
By Nissim Mannathukkaren
Books Aug.23.19

Beyond secularism

Rethinking Pluralism, Secularism and Tolerance is one of the finest attempts to explain the notion of secularism and the threat that the Hindu Right poses to India’s social fabric
By Shaikh Mujibur Rehman
India Aug.22.19

Hindutva is not the same as Hinduism said Savarkar

Hindutva had nothing to do with religion or rituals. The term in English which came closest to the one he was using, he wrote, was perhaps Hinduness
By Vaibhav Purandare
West Bengal Aug.13.19

Congress MP Adhir Chowdhury tears into BJP’s idea of religion

Adhir asks if great leaders endorsed their idea of India or their brand of Hindutva
By TT Bureau
Opinion Aug.11.19

Patriotic herbivores may rejoice at findings on plant-based diets, but...

...to claim that India always knew this would be to admit that reports from the West should be taken seriously
By The Editorial Board
Books Aug.9.19

India: The surveillant state

The BJP and the plethora of Hindu nationalist organisations are shifting the relationship between the Indian state and its diverse peoples and communities
By Prasanta Ray
Opinion Jul.25.19

The sanitized citizenry of New India

Religion is often highlighted in this context, but there are clear convergences of language and caste
By Biswanath Saha and Gorky Chakraborty

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