RSS
Whose media is it anyway?
Real freedom of expression is eroding fast in India.
Neha Dixit | Sep 21, 2016
Believers’ Dilemma – II
Never before has the RSS been more confident of its role in shaping India’s future. (This is part two of a two-part essay)
Abhishek Choudhary | Jun 03, 2016
Believers’ dilemma – I
Never before has the RSS been more confident of its role in shaping India’s future. (This is part one of a two-part essay)
Abhishek Choudhary | Jun 01, 2016
An unjust war
‘Love Jihad’ and honour killings are strategies to quell challenges to caste, class and gender conventions.
Neha Dixit | Dec 27, 2015
Reasoning with intolerance
The defence raised by the rightwing apologists about growing intolerance needs to be addressed
Ajay Gudavarthy | Dec 25, 2015
Pride and prejudice
FROM THE ARCHIVE: How the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government was trying to ram through a Hindu sectarian agenda in culture and education in 1999.
Praful Bidwai | Jun 26, 2015
The sanitising power of spoken Sanskrit
Revived interest in Sanskrit study in India reveals patriotism and a problematic nationalism.
Patrick McCartney | Feb 27, 2014
Diabolic designs and demonic actions
Subash Gatade’s books uncover the correlations between resurgent Hindutva and the ascendance of neoliberalism.
Anand Teltumbde | Jan 15, 2013
Delhi – Yangon – Delhi
A trip across borders geographical, political and cultural unravels the complex histories between India, Myanmar and their peoples
Nandita Haksar | Jan 15, 2013
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