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Distortions in the syllabus of history books, an uncomfortable perspective

The normalisation of an everyday majoritarianism, Neo-Hindutva, has been facilitated by the silence of the Muslim liberal; an urgent challenge is being able to move out of the confines to reaffirm wider processes of secularization as a counter

A Stormy Relationship: Manto and the Progressives

  Extracted from ‘The Progressive’, Introduction to Saadat Hasan Manto,...

Why Ambedkar rejected, outright Gandhi’s views on Temple entry

Image: Ram RahmanGandhi’s refusal to accept that caste was...

Why we should listen to the music of the Holocaust – and that of Syrian refugees

Image: Patrick M, CC BY-NC-SA As the 71st anniversary of...

Lessons Unlearned: Nine years after the Thorat Committee report

  In 2007, then prime minister Manmohan Singh set up...

Untouchable God

The hotel was an old mix of florid Mughal...

No dialogue between sheep and wolves

  I had my first close encounter with Mr. Narendra...

No to Hindutva, Yes to Hindustaniyat

Image Courtesy: V. Sreenivasa Murthy / The HinduCourtesy: www.indianculturalforum.inLet...

Swami Vivekananda, theirs or ours?

  A close look at the Swami on his 153rd...

Shakespeare and Islam

This article appeared http://blog.oup.com/2015/12/shakespeare-and-islam/ on December 27, 2015   Without Islam...

Indian Policy victim of Upper Caste Bias, Unreason – Dilip Mandal

  Dilip C Mandal Speech At Bamcef Convention 2016 AWAAZ INDIA...

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