Secularism

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

Chapter I – Introduction

Report of the CABE Committee on 'Regulatory Mechanisms for...

India: Where mass murderers go unpunished

1984: Anti Sikh Riots   In the last several decades, various...

Who’s Rashtra Is it Anyway?

Courtesy: Hindustan Times   THE FLAG-BEARERS of Hindutva, in their task...

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...

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