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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

Religion-based Nationalism is back in Full Force: Romila Thapar

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Talaq, Talaq, Talaq: If it’s inhuman, how can it be ‘Islamic’?

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The ulama are wrong: Muslim Personal Law in India is not God-given

  In response to the Supreme Court's recent suo motu...

Nailing the sangh parivar’s lies: How the Naujawan Bharat Sabha is doing it

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‘We are brothers’: Pope washes feet of refugees during Holy Thursday Mass

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ICC order: 40 years in prison for former president, Bosnia-Serbia for genocide, war crimes

Karadžić in court. EPA/Robin Van LonkhuijsenFormer Bosnian Serb leader...

भगतसिंह, सुखदेव और राजगुरू की शहादत पर डा अम्बेडकर

  समसामयिक विचार (जनता, 13 अप्रैल 1931) भगतसिंह, सुखदेव और राजगुरू इन...

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  भगत सिंह होते, तो संघ के खिलाफ़ होते   उस कुर्बानी...

Sangeet, Sapna aur Samvidhan: Diverse Tastes that animate India

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Hindutva’s Hostility to Urdu Evident in HRD Ministry’s New Firman

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