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This memorandum was handed in at a civil society protest held outside the Haryana Bhavan in New Delhi on 30 May 2015 following communal violence in a Village in Ballabhgarh, Haryana.

Ever since the promulgation of the 18th Constitutional Amendment, under which the subject of labour and industrial relations has been devolved to and brought under the purview of the provincial governments, a debate has been going on . . .

A wave of killings targeting secular bloggers in Bangladesh is a long way from real-estate agent Farid Ahmed’s suburban Toronto neighbourhood. But the murders could not feel closer.

The present standoff in India-Pakistan relations is at once unreal, wasteful and dangerous. Unreal, because it has far exceeded the reasonable limits of resentment that it was supposed to express when talks between the foreign secretaries were called off last year. Wasteful, because it does not serve any national interest. On the contrary, talking points are piling up relentlessly. And it is dangerous because a long impasse can precipitate developments that neither side expects or desires.

This paper is based on long ethnographic enquiries led in Ahmedabad, and mainly in Juhapura, between 2009 and 2014