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Azhar Moideen
Communal Rhetoric Around Malabar Rebellion: An RSS Ploy To Equate Hindutva With Nationalism
04 Sep 2021
The attempt by BJP-RSS leaders to distort history and vilify the Malabar Rebellion and its leaders, in order to polarize society along communal lines, is nothing new. Left parties and progressive…
Ajay Gudavarthy
Emergency Message for Modi Regime: Don’t Take People for Granted
25 Jun 2021
The tendency to underestimate people, see their trust as gullibility is not new. However, Indians halted authoritarianism before and can do it again.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Not Just a Game: Why Sport Pulls on Heartstrings
18 Jun 2021
Like cinema, sport allows us to live out our fantasies and sub-conscious drives, makes imagined communities seem tangible and offers a chance of catharsis.
Ajaz Ashraf
Battered by Covid-19, Doctors Challenge Militaristic Nationalism
11 Jun 2021
A career in the military is not the only profession in which death and duty entwine together.
Prabhat Patnaik
Kisan Movement Counters Corporate-Hindutva ‘Nationalism’ Narrative
18 Dec 2020
The symbols and slogans raised by protesting farmers herald the recovery of real nationalism that underlay the anti-colonial struggle and provided the foundation for free India.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Are Majoritarian Societies as Powerful as they Appear?
29 Sep 2020
What can and cannot work as an alternative strategy to the fear and violence generated by majoritarian regimes.
Krishanu Bhargav Neog
Why Bollywood and TV Studios Love to Hate Elites
20 Sep 2020
Those in the popular press and cinema who are deriding “elites” today are no less than elites themselves.
Newsclick/PTI
COVID-19: CBSE ‘Rationalises’ Syllabus, Chapters on Secularism, Nationalism and Demonetisation Sacrificed
08 Jul 2020
The move by the HRD ministry was to decrease the course load for the students, and lessons on democracy and diversity, demonetisation, nationalism, secularism, India's relations with its neighbours…
Hiren Gohain
Nationalism and Humanism in the Indian State
27 May 2020
The idea still underpins many social beliefs and state institutions, but the promise of humanism is yet to be fulfilled.
Subhash Gatade
Brutalising Labourers, Jailing Dissidents
19 Apr 2020
A medical emergency is no pretext to impose a political emergency.