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Tag: Hindutva
Is India Really a Democracy? The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in the Wind: Nayantara Sahgal
The author's lament about the attacks on individual rights and freedoms in present-day India.
Intolerance
A poem on how in contrast to lactose and gluten intolerance, the cure for the social malady lies within us.
The Voice of a Party Worker
'I am assigned all the jobs that are dirty, for which I am incentivised with debauchery.'
A Walk Through Old Delhi: The Fusion of Hindu, Muslim and Jain Cultures
Rana Safvi and Sam Dalrymple explore monuments – including at least 100 Jain and Shaivite temples – that were built during the Mughal period.
Akshay Kumar’s Hindu Samrat Goes Where No Other Bollywood Films Have Gone Before
The blatant advertising of 'Samrat Prithviraj' shows it is aimed at only Hindus, but will this work at the box office?
Not Being the Other
The author recounts a dinner conversation in 2017 where statements against Muslims were accompanied by an acknowledgement of him being an exception.
Lament of a Small Man
A squabbling, rioting nation can only reverse towards medievalism and never march forwards – only to become an object of ridicule and derision in the world.
The India I Live In
'I no longer belong to an India whose pride possession is secularism, or where the right to live isn't a privilege.'
For Recognising the Signs of Fascism, a Teacher Must Be Suspended
Recent events at Sharda University are a reminder that given the global climate now, the RSS does not want to be recognised as fascist – even if it continues …