Ideology
The slow, steady march of Hindutva in South India (The Hindu)
By GREESHMA KUTHAR
Understanding south India in the past few decades has been guided by the imagined utopia of its political progressiveness. A comparison with...
Decoding the Medak Violence & the Rise of Hindutva in Telangana...
By MEENAKSHY SASIKUMAR
"I have never seen anything so terrible happen here before. This town has always been peaceful," asserted Barkhat Ahmed, the headmaster of...
Why is India’s Hindu Right Pro-Israel? (The Diplomat)
By Akhilesh Pillalamarri
During the premiership of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi — which has mostly coincided with the premiership, in Israel, of Benjamin Netanyahu,...
The Apologist, The question of VD Savarkar’s political transformation (Caravan Magazine)
By DHIRENDRA K JHA
IT SHOULD NOT COME as a surprise that a figure who was once deeply invested in presenting India’s history as a series...
Why Modi’s Hindu nationalism is a harder sell in India’s south...
By Salimah Shivji
The stage was empty, but the music blared, exhorting people to vote for Rahul Gandhi, as hundreds piled into the outdoor stadium...
The absence of Ambedkarite politics and the prevalence of soft Hindutva...
By JADUMANI MAHANAND
On 1 March, Naveen Patnaik, the chief minister of Odisha, inaugurated the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Inter-State Bus Terminus in Bhubaneswar. It was...