Secularism

How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand

What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar

Gujarat – One year later

  I am writing this historic letter to you. I...

Unlikely Victim

  Qutub-uddin Ansari achieved fame of sorts when a Reuters...

The road not taken

  The real damage to the struggle for secularism in...

‘I am going to take them head on.’ Digvijay Singh, senior Congress leader

 When, following the assembly poll results in December, VHP...

State must stay aloof from religion

The separation between State and religion is a critical...

Dalits: Still doing the savarna’s dirty job?

  Image for representation purpose only The semi-secularism of the secularist...

Secularism Under Siege

  Kamal Mitra ChenoyThe all-out assault on secularism is not merely...

Godhra, The Tribunal’s Findings

  As the Sabarmati Express travelled back from Ayodhya on...

Mapping the Violence, Gujarat 2002

Archived from Communalism Combat, November-December 2002  Year 9  No....

Religious and Cultural Desecration

  Mosques, dargahs, small shrines and other Muslim religious and...

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