Fr Stan Lourdeswamy Selected for Mukundan C Menon Award 2020 New Delhi 14 Dec 2020 Fr. Stan Lourduswamy S.J, a member of the Jesuit congregation and a tribals rights activist for several decades in Jarkhand…
Ideological Convergences: Hindutva and the Norway Massacre
30 dec 2011 Meera Nanda Anders Breivik, the man who carried out the July 2011 massacre in Norway, counts the sanatana dharma movements in India among his allies in Europe’s supposed war against Islam. His…
Our politicians cause gory riots, not the Internet
30 Dec. 2011 by Dipankar GuptaTHE DECISION to police the Internet, particularly Google and Facebook, and serve them notice for purveying material that might cause riots is based on motivated naïveté. It appears commonsensical to…
Our politicians cause gory riots, not the Internet
by Dipankar Gupta THE DECISION to police the Internet, particularly Google and Facebook, and serve them notice for purveying material that might cause riots is based on motivated naïveté. It appears commonsensical to argue that…
From Babri Demolition to supporting Anna Hazare
26 dec 2011 Ram Puniyani Changing Strategies of RSS politics This December, Babri demolition act completed its 19years. On the occasion many a Muslim groups demanded the reconstruction of the masjid. This demand is just…
Karnataka govt’s bill on religion defeated
dec 19 2011 Ahead of the crucial by-election to the Legislative Council, the ruling BJP was outwitted by the Opposition which defeated the government’s move to get the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments…
Remembering Kandhamal
dec 19 2011by Harsh ManderIt was a terrifying Christmas in 2007 for tribal and dalit Christians who live in the second poorest, deeply forested district of Odisha, Kandhamal. Long-smouldering violence targeting them exploded, and was…
Why is EPW, India's leading progressive weekly playing…
7 dec 2011Last week (29 November 2011) it was India's left leaning daily newspaper The Hindu that published an Op-Ed from The Guardian arguing that Supporters of democracy must welcome Political Islam, now taking this…
Don’t blame the Hindus (Jawed Naqvi)
7 dec 2011 Jawed NaqviI ACCEPT the view that Hindu-Muslim tensions in India are largely a by-product of social and political fault lines within the majority community — the Hindus.This is no different from the…