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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

Citizens’ Should File FIR Against Baba Ramdev for Hate Speech: Lawyers

  True to their sangh parivar lineage, BJP leaders are...

Attacks on Free speech Soar in the First Quarter of 2016

The first quarter has seen not just censorship but...

Indispensability of Dissent: A citizen’s right and duty to judge democracy

  Vice President of India Hamid Ansari delivered the first...

Fear Grips Muslims in Dewarhu Village in Sonipat, Haryana

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Why cries of ‘Kendriya Sarkar Murdabad’ rang out at Tanzil Ahmed’s Funeral

The Modi ruled Central Government and its Representatives were...

Saudi Funding of Intolerance: The Other Face of the Indian Sufi’s Angst

Image Courtesy: Quora.comThe issues arising from the decision...

Proud to be ‘anti-national’: Gurpreet Singh

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