what we just saw last month was the destruction of the Vidyasagar statue in Bengal. If that indicates anything, we need to think about what is in store for India. This time it was to symbolize the rise and the mainstreaming of the Right and its doctrine of violence.
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India: Intolerance towards diverse ideas and dissent has taken hold of our minds
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India: Authorities must ensure safety of Dr. Puniyani, who has been a strong secular voice and crusader for communal harmony
7 June 2019Repeated threats pose great risk and danger to Dr. Puniyani, who has been a strong secular voice and crusader for communal harmony. This is nothing but an attempt to silence his voice and curb his emphatic efforts towards spreading the message of peace and harmony.
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21st Century India: Public Officials Call For Religious Prayers for Rains, Ignoring Contitutional Advice To Promote Scientific temper
6 June 2019People in high public office, state officials and even top courts seem to be ignoring Article 51A of India’s constitution implores citizens to "develop scientific temper ..." see reports from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in June 2019
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India: An Independent Assesment of 2019 National (Parliamentary) Election Expenditure - CMS Report
6 June 2019The 2019 general (Parliamentary) election in India seems to be the most expensive election ever, anywhere. The estimates [of $8.65 billion] in this report by Centre for Media Studies (CMS) are based on traceable expenses. There is need to seriously deliberate this poll expenditure phenomena.
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Weaponising Paperwork: Rohingya Belonging and Statelessness | Dina M Siddiqi
by , 5 June 2019How does an ethnic minority, in possession of most citizenship rights up until quite recently, become stateless over time and, that too, primarily through legal measures? The denationalisation of the Rohingya, I suggest, is not a peculiarly Burmese problem, but an extreme version of a more general predicament of (postcolonial) nation states in the present.
