MODI PHENOMENON: AN ATTACK ON INDIAN DEMOCRACY
By Ram Puniyani
Currently (August 2013) Narendra Modi is trying to dominate the media, print social and TV through his carefully constructed propaganda machinery and...
The parivar in America
By Christophe Jaffrelot
The controversy that has been raging about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s US visa suggests that for the BJP, the United States...
Shastra Pujas: what is religious about worshipping arms?
By Subhash Gatade
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Schools are meant for play and studies where kids slowly blossom into adolescents.
Schools are meant for books, laboratories and other cultural activities...
Hindutva Terror in Karnataka: Malleswaram or Was It Hubli 2.0
By Subhash Gatade
Imagine a bomb blast in a lane near the ruling party's office just before the elections which is immediately attributed to an...
Interpreting fascism, one fascist at a time
By Javed Anand
In the past two decades or so, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the sangh parivar as a whole and its ideological affiliates...
Vivekananda & RSS
Whatever K.N. Panikkar’s view of the sangh parivar, it has played a very important role in spreading Vivekananda’s vision and message (“ >Vivekananda’s legacy of...
No Humans in Modi’s “Development”
By Mukul Dube
Narendra Modi of the RSS is an ambitious man who seems to want to become the prime minister of the country. His...
A Five Point Formula for Riot-Free India
By Asghar Ali Engineer
India’s legacy of communalism and communal violence is here to stay, if one goes by activities of rightwing Hindutva forces and...
The Truth Behind The Ram Janm Bhoomi Liberation
An 8 page pamphlet in Hindi by the Sampradaikta Virodhi Andolan that uncovers the truth behind the Hindutva campaign for the Ram Temple...
Religion in Politics: Impact on Human Rights
By Ram Puniyani,
(Text of Prahallad Mallik Memorial Lecture, January 12, 2012, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa delivered by Ram Puniyani)
We are living in times when the interpretation of events...
December 6, 1992 – Lest we forget
By Javed Anand
As I put this column in place, the calendar says it’s December 6. On this very day, 20 years ago, the Babri...
V.D. Savarkar and Gandhi’s murder
By A G Noorani
If only Savarkar’s bodyguard and his secretary had testified against him in court, he would have been convicted for Gandhi’s murder
On...
Public against Democracy: the case of the Gujarat Pogrom 2002
By Britta Ohm
The Creating Publics-Creating Democracies workshop ( see this week's theme) caught my attention immediately because ‘public’ and ‘democracy’ figured as two separate...
