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This essay derives its inspiration from the need to engage with and understand the phenomenon of totalitarianism, which appears to me to be a central feature of terror and terrorism. My argument is not restricted to India, nor to a specific religious provenance of Indian communal politics.

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Improper Comments of Judge
August 3, 2014
Press Statement
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
The views expressed by Supreme Court Justice A.R. Dave about the teaching of the Gita and the Mahabaratha in schools, is improper and unwarranted. What Justice Dave has advocated is religious instruction in all schools from Class I. Compulsory religious instruction in government schools violates (…)

Hiroshima Day 2014: Why National Security Has Nothing to Do With Security by Noam Chomsky and Tom Engelhardt An Unrecognized Loss: Message From Hiroshima The Hiroshima Myth and the Glorification of American Militarism by Gary G. Kohls

Sarfraz Manzoor charts the extraordinary story of jazz in India

The war in Gaza has strengthened both the Muslim Right and the Jewish Right; while the results have been disastrous for the people of Gaza, they aren’t good for the people of Israel either. Meredith Tax asks, what does this mean for the two state solution?