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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

What it’s like to be gay and a Muslim

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Ways of Confronting

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Remembering Guda Anjanna – The signature song of Telangana’s Dalit Revolution

The first time I heard about Guda Anjanna (1 November...

Revisiting ‘Sadgati” by Satyajit Ray: Caste in Indian Cinema

Satyajit Ray Film Retrospective Image:buzzintown​Sadgati is a Hindi TV...

Why Has the Audience Gone “Wild”?

Celebrated Marathi playwright Jayant Pawar reviews Sairat, the critically acclaimed blockbuster that...

Why the first Olympic refugee team may not be the last

Yusra Mardini, originally from Syria, trains in Germany. One...

UoH Admin Backtracks, Revokes Suspension of Two Professors After Rare Show of Faculty Unity

Arrest Appa Rao, re-Instate Suspended Faculty: Radhika Vemula was...

Mourning Rashmi Dwivedi: Living Among the Baiga Adivasis of Chhattisgarh

Sisterhood of the Baiga Mahapanchayat, ChhattisgarhThe Sad Demise of...

Sulabha Deshpande, A Student of Drama Not a Diva: Chitra Palekar

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