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It is the responsibility of citizens, therefore, to carry forward the work of people such as Narendra Dabholkar, and ensure that superstitions and blind faith do not overtake our better judgement.

Statements from those in high office purvey superstition masked as rationality.

Raza Naeem on how India’s Renaissance Man addresses the cataclysmic division of India and Pakistan

One way of interpreting the confluence of post-democratic political forces around a neo-right-wing agenda and a personality constructed in the mould of adharmika ruler is that Sri Lanka’s contemporary political order is set to experience a major qualitative shift. In that emerging political order, there might develop two parallel authority structures, one secular, and the other, religious.

These 10 years have seen hate and violence against Christians being routinised. Beating up of priests, breaking up of prayer meetings and carols, desecration of churches and arrests of priests, enactment of anti-conversion laws, as in Jharkhand or villages being made out of bounds for Christians as in Chhattisgarh, lack the spectacle of Kandhamal. Our indifference to all these only indicates the normalisation of what Kandhamal saw.