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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

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Silent Prayer

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Throttling society

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Decibel democracy

The volume of the marketplace will ultimately determine the...

Judicial slip-up

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The Muslim maa, bahen, biwi in Hindi cinema

Courtesy: mumbaiqueerfest.com  Notes from a personal diary Experience is a double-edged...

Talking songs

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