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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

Your lordships, beware!

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Conniving state

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Subversive Sangh

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Partisan police

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To Abba, with love…

On May 10, Kaifi Azmi, poet, activist, lyricist, communist,...

Resist the blackout!

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India’s Christians – Salt of the Earth

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