politics

Criminalizing Triple Talaq: Pro-women or Anti-Muslim?

Criminalizing Triple Talaq: Pro-women or Anti-Muslim?

Contextualizing Triple Talaq: Intersectionality of Religion and Gender [responsivevoice_button voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] The usage of Triple Talaq has been a subject of long-standing debates. It was a form of Islamic divorce that allowed a husband to divorce their wife instantly at one sitting by saying ‘Talaq’ three times- either…

Islamophobia in India– The elaborate blame game

Islamophobia in India– The elaborate blame game

[responsivevoice_button voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] The most prevalent phobia in the twenty-first century is Islamophobia. From the liberal societies of Europe and the United States of America to India, it persists everywhere. The onus of fighting it has been shared to a great extent by the people or society of…

Food: Its role in evolution of society and politics

Food: Its role in evolution of society and politics

Food, is a quintessential ingredient for human survival, a necessity to quench his hunger. Living beings of all orders- be it insects, rodents or mammals spend a substantial amount of their time in search of food. The prehistoric, hunter-gatherer was more aware of perils associated with this activity. It has been roughly estimated that our…

Catch-22 of a pandemic: Inception of a disciplined majority

Catch-22 of a pandemic: Inception of a disciplined majority

[responsivevoice_button voice=”US Female” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] Pandemic, like history, repeats itself.  It is significant to historicize pandemics because it lays bare the fact that the only lesson humankind has learned from history is that it hardly learns from history. An attempt to trace the historiography of pandemics and governments’ response to such…

India’s COVID communication of stigma and blame

India’s COVID communication of stigma and blame

Anmol Mongia is a research scholar who has recently completed her MPhil in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Her interests include the study of religion and ethics, the philosophy of sports, and childhood studies. Even though COVID-19 is a novel virus, the experience of a viral pandemic is not. Despite a…

Constitutional morality as a service to the republic

Constitutional morality as a service to the republic

[responsivevoice_button voice=”Hindi Male” buttontext=”Let’s listen to this Theel”] On the twenty-sixth day of January in 1950, India, that is Bharat, became a republic. It was on this day, we, the people of India, adopted our constitution. At that time, the world laughed at us for adopting the path of democratic-republic as a way forward for…

Has the Indian secularism lost its face already?

Has the Indian secularism lost its face already?

The need for literate-ness regarding secularism, and in particular to understand its Indian version, has become urgent since the arrival of the Hindutva-politics and its claim to be the safeguard of secularism in India, dubbing its alternatives as “pseudo-secularism”. The Modi regime is electorally well established, but its roots shake when its grasp on secular…