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Subhash Gatade
When ‘Strange’ Visitors Called on Ram Puniyani
12 Mar 2019
Recall Kalburgi and Shahid Azmi? There are several such unconnected looking incidents in recent times that are part of the same mindset that looks for 'internal enemies' in every dissenting voice.
Subhash Gatade
‘Patriotism’ Made Easy in Times of ‘WhatsApp Elections’
05 Mar 2019
A WhatsApp-sponsored report, prepared in partnership with Queen Mary University, has raised the alarm that the 2019 elections in India, which already has cleavages on lines of caste, race, gender,…
Subhash Gatade
Will MIT Show Swamy the Door like Harvard Did?
11 Feb 2019
A campaign is gathering steam against MIT inviting BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for a conference on February 16.
Subhash Gatade
Gandhi’s Assassination Was Much More Than Just a Murder
29 Jan 2019
Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination on January 30, 1948, was a culmination of a vicious campaign launched by Hindu communal groups in post-Independence India.
Subhash Gatade
My Friend Anand
22 Jan 2019
Anand Teltumbde exhibited the rare courage of speaking truth to power. It was his popularity as a teacher and colleague that prompted a usually 'apolitical' campus like IIT Kharagpur to speak out in…
Subhash Gatade
APCO to Kotler – The Artificial Glossing of Modi’s Image
17 Jan 2019
Narendra Modi is the first mainstream Indian politician who has tried to build his image rather assiduously. But the acceptance of an award with dubious connections does not add to the glory of the…
Subhash Gatade
50 Years Later, the Shadow of Keezhvenmani Continues to Hover Over our Republic
26 Dec 2018
December 25, 1968, termed as 'Black Thursday', saw the first mass crime against Dalits in independent India, who were fighting for respectable wages under the leadership of the Communist Party.
Subhash Gatade
Goodbye Vaccines, Welcome Gomutra
22 Dec 2018
Resistance to vaccines is not limited to Pakistan and the minorities in India. Right-wing populists in Europe, too, are opposing it.
Subhash Gatade
IIT-Madras, a Modern Day Agraharam?
17 Dec 2018
The institute’s recent order, now withdrawn, of separate entrance for non-vegetarians is just a part of the overall policing and push for vegetarianism after the Modi government’s ascent.
Subhash Gatade
Sacred Cows, Disposable Humans
07 Dec 2018
The Bulandshahr mob killings show that the Hindutva Supremacist world view, which has complete apathy and indifference toward human life and puts a four-legged animal on a pedestal, is on the…