A Hard Rain Falling: Radicalism in Indian Politics
A baleful feature of contemporary Indian politics is the subjugation of the mind to partisanship in the narrowest sense.
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Scientific Temper and the New Education Policy 2020
What counts as ‘evidence’ in the NEP’s vision of “inculcating scientific temper with evidence based thinking”?
Violence and caste terrorism in India
A hidden apartheid is constantly working at the backdrop of the minds of the perpetrators who commit such violence. It is very important to handle the issue of caste with utmost cautiousness, alertness, and proper knowledge
The Hindutva Right and its disdain for secularism
When it comes to the matter of secularism, the BJP and RSS have been very dismissive about its importance in the Indian scenario.
Welfare in India: Business, BJP and Middle Class
How does the BJP government that posits itself as neoliberal and pro-business, manage to not only maintain existing welfare schemes but also launch new ones?
Changing personifications of the ‘Idea of India’
We can reasonably say that discourses about Indian culture mostly borrows its context from closely knit familial bonds, institutions like marriage, caste, respecting elderly wisdom, and so on. There are also aspects that place immense emphasis on devotion, spiritual enlightenment, wisdom from rishis and epics, minimalist and frugal living, coexistence with nature, written and said…
Dear Bengal, Lynching is not who you are!
News of a Bengali ‘Hindu’ family- a pregnant mother, a child, and the father, being lynched in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal is running through newspapers and social media. The authenticity and the real motives for murder are yet to be investigated, since there are plausible reasons to believe that it could be a…
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