South Asia Citizens Web

The dispute over Ram Janmabhoomi cannot be reduced merely to what has been described as Left historians having a flawed understanding of the Babri case.

Society takes exception to women’s rejection of the authority of the male voice and their daring to speak of things that only men can do and speak about. The march has opened up space for debate on some serious concerns

A scanned version of the full-length study by D. R. Goyal on the ideology, culture and politics of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS); its role in the overall right-wing eco-system in India. This book first appeared in 1979 and its second edition in 2000.

Lankesh’s murder seemed to fit what was by then an unmistakable pattern of assassinations of intellectuals who opposed the fundamentalist-Hindu ideology that animates the B.J.P., all of which remained unsolved. Between 2013 and 2015, three religiously freethinking Indian writers and activists were shot dead near their homes by assailants who escaped on motorcycles

since 2014, the Modi government has attacked democracy in more insidious, thoroughgoing and indirect ways. This attack is aimed at weakening the institutional and popular foundations of democracy in India. It should be stressed that the regime has functioned in close proximity with its parent body, the RSS. . . . We appeal to all opposition political parties to realise and confront the gravity of the threat to democracy. It is a time to rise above political competition.