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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

Hindutva Groups Fail to Push Caste Oppression Out of California Textbooks

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An Open Letter to Muslim Men from an Angry Muslim Woman

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‘Not a single journalist working without fear or pressure’: Editors Guild on Bastar

 A team of editors visited Chhattisgarh and was told...

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

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

A State Attempts to Muzzle Dissent, the Brutal Attack on Uday Bhanu: HCU

Personal Account: Uday Bhanu, Dalit Scholar to a WitnessUday...

Withdraw Police, Suspend VC, Order Probe: 300 International Academics on HCU

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Another Journalist Arrested in Bastar: Repression by Chhattisgarh Police Continues

Photo Credits: FrontlineAnother journalist, deepak Jaiswal, was arrested by...

Appa Rao return bid to thwart Kanhaiya Kumar at HCU?

 Was suspended Vice Chancellor Appa Rao’s surreptitious and sudden...

Sangeet, Sapna aur Samvidhan: Diverse Tastes that animate India

Dedicated to Charul and Vinay and their music: the recollection...

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

Image: PTI Photo by Manvender Vashist   “The National Council for...

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