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UP’s syncretic warrior cults facing Hindutva challenge

Be it the attack on the Gogamedi shrine in the Hanumangarh district of northern Rajasthan or the Neja Mela in the Sambhal district of western Uttar Pradesh, Hindutva’s systemic attack on India’s syncretic traditions, past and present, reveals its rigid and Brahmanical ideological orientation: imposition of a strictly hierarchical, exclusionary and structured notion of faith and practice

Activists Get Creative in Their Push for Moroccan Women’s Rights

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Indian Civilization Unlikely to have been Characterised by One Religion: Romila Thapar

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354 pro-Palestine human rights and church groups, trade union and political parties mount pressure on EU

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How Sangh Parivar and ‘Dalit Capitalists’ are Sanitising Dr Ambedkar’s Radical Vision

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The Sanatan Dharma Recipe for Historical Writing and Research

Image Credit: Times of India/Sandeep Adhwaryu In this interview, renowned...

Constitutional Cautions: Vice President and President Speak

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AMU’s misleading statistics hide discrimination against aspiring women undergraduates

Image: Indian ExpressWhat does one say when a prestigious...

Nationalism : The Malignant versus The Benign

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