Every time Pakistan test-launches a Shaheen or India an Agni, subcontinental testosterone levels shoot sky high. The fiery plumes carry aloft a nuclear-capable missile that can lay a city to waste. Iranians, though not nuclear, have their Ashouras, Emads and Shahabs. As for the North Koreans, they celebrate with fireworks and street parties when their Little Rocket Man sends up an ICBM to annoy the Deranged Dotard who, in turn, threatens them with total annihilation.
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Missile worship not warranted
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Contested Spaces, Political Practices, and Hindutva: Spatial Upheaval and Authoritarian Populism in Noida, India | Ritanjan Das, Nilotpal Kumar and Praveen Priyadarshi
16 March 2018Contemporary India is showing increasing signs of ‘competitive’ authoritarian populism (Levitsky and Way, 2010). The mainstream political discourse in the country is dominated by the sectarian religious forces of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva, serving as the agency of a development narrative that promises to return India to its ‘greatness of yore’. In this paper, we examine the case of Noida, an upcoming satellite township adjacent to the capital New Delhi, to describe a process of spatial upheaval that is leading to continuous practices of ‘othering’. These processes are enabling the Hindutva forces to take root locally. In effect, we argue that local space-making has an intrinsic relationship with authoritarian populism, and it therefore needs to be at the analytical forefront.
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Pakistan: Guns or books? | Zubeida Mustafa
by , 16 March 2018Balochistan’s biggest tragedy is the education emergency there
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Video: How Indian Engineers Helped Stephen Hawking ’talk’
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By Rewriting India’s History, Hindutva Forces Meddling With India’s Present And Future | Ashok Swain
15 March 2018Falsifications of historical evidence and symbols designed to discredit political rivals are universal features of the struggle for power.
