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Unifying cultural celebration weaponised: Ganesh processions turned into stages for hate speech & moral policing
Ganesh Chaturthi, once a symbol of shared community celebration, was exploited this year by hard-line groups across India to amplify anti-Muslim and anti-Christian rhetoric, transforming a festival of harmony into a tool of exclusion
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Kolkata group organises drive to gift sarees to women from low-income neighbourhoods
Organisation hopes to gift new sarees to 500 women who work in the unorganised sector and have been hit hard by the economic crisis
Bojja Tharakam and his legacy
This is a tribute to activist and artist Bojja Tharakam who left much more in the hearts of people than he did in his many published works.
What Bhagat Singh would have fought (for) in 2020 India
Romila Thapar on Bhagat Singh’s 112th Birth Anniversary, September 28, 2019. We are re- publishing this today, on the 113th Birth Anniversary
A Swami, an activist, a human and more: A short recap of Swami Agnivesh’s social endeavours
Following the death of well-loved and respected Swami Agnivesh, Sabrang India looks back at all the ways in which Swamiji had enriched lives.
One of the bravest man I’ve met, Swami Agnivesh: John Dayal
Saluting one of the bravest man I've met as a journalist and as an activist.
Champion of human rights, secularism, Swami Agnivesh, passes away at 81
The powerhouse behind Bandhua Mukti Morcha (Bonded Labour Liberation Front), Swami Agnivesh leaves a legacy of activism
Secularism and its importance to the ‘majority’
Let us judge people by their contributions to the nation and the global family instead of a personal matter like faith
Several ‘secular’ people applauded the Babri demolition: Ravi Gupta
In this interview from 1994, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) former Chairman Ravi Gupta tells Communalism Combat co-editor Teesta Setavad, how he saw varying forms and degrees of not only religious, but also caste and class discrimination become apparant after the Babri Masjid demolition
I was asked why I wear a bindi: Navjot
In this interview from 1994, artist Navjot tells Communalism Combat co-editor Teesta Setavad, about the challenges of being a Sikh woman married to a Muslim man practicing secular values in wake of the Babri Masjid demolition
The same blood flows in all of us: Mohammed Khan
In this interview from 1994, ad guru Mohammed Khan tells Communalism Combat co-editor Teesta Setavad, about his diverse lineage and why he dislikes the Hindu vs Muslim narrative that emerged in wake of the Babri Masjid demolition
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