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Campaign for justice to demand fast investigation of the murder cases of Dhabolkar, Pansare and Kalbugi; To demand an inquiry into the terrorist activities of Sanatan Sanstha and Hindu Janajagaran Samitee and request for taking appropriate action against them ...

Can ideological purity fill in the setbacks suffered by the Indian Left because of its political diminution? Had the Indian Left been by now a truly united force and a major player on its own in the political life of the republic, its well-wishers should have been the last to persuade it to suffer mitigation by allying with merely democratic forces.

Indian nationalism’s anti-colonial, and inclusive, origins are increasingly being trampled underfoot by votaries of Hindu majoritarianism. In this essay, Romila Thapar shows how the cant of Hindutva was built on the myopic and tendentious tradition of colonial history-writing.

In June, in some desperation to bring to book those behind the seemingly unending series of murders, the Bangladesh police had launched a nationwide crackdown on Islamist radicals believed to be responsible for the murder of secular bloggers, publishers, writers, Hindu priests and Buddhist monks, Christian pastors and even Baul music exponents. More than 14,000 suspects were nabbed within a week.

Select editorials from daily newspapers Bangladesh, Pakistan, India on the killings of people in a cafe in the Gulshan district of Dhaka.