Indian secularism is the most lonely child of our times.Nobody’s baby, it wanders without the hope for a shelter.Once adored and pampered, now it find itself banished to a wilderness where its cries do not even return to it.
South Asia Citizens Web
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Make Love Not War song from the 1976 Pakistani film Maut ke Saudagar
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India: Our secularism - lonely or lost ?
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India: The case of Zohra, a domestic worker in Noida in Sector 78
15 July 2017The case of Zohra, a domestic worker in Noida. Notice how the residents of the buildings close ranks and how the police come out to support them, no questions asked.
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China: The Passion of Liu Xiaobo | Perry Link
14 July 2017On July 13, 2017, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and well known dissident Liu Xiaobo died from complications of liver cancer in a Shenyang hospital in Liaoning Province while being guarded by state security
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India: Audio Recording from Historians Discussion on Two books by Audrey Truschke
13 July 2017Two books by Audrey Truschke under discussion - Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth (New Delhi: Sage, 2017) and Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Gurgaon: Allen Lane, 2016)
Discussants: Prof. Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi; Prof. Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi; and Prof. Najaf Haider, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Chair: Prof. Upinder Singh, University of Delhi At India International Centre, New Delhi on 12 July 2017
