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The northeast of contemporary India, like the northwest of Pakistan, is restive and wracked by violence, scarred by armed "separatist" movements and the heavy footprint of state counter-insurgency. Yet the vision of transforming the colonial-era frontier regions into normal, governable national spaces remains unfulfilled in the North East as well as in the North West.

While it is easy to comprehend dalit assertion on autonomous lines, connecting it to the glorious tradition of cultural revolts led by the likes of Phule, Jyothee Thass, Periyar, Ambedkar and others, one is normally baffled by a section of the dalits cooption by the Hindutva forces and their becoming stormtroopers for its hate agenda.

The silence on Beemapalli violence opens many cans of worms - including the deeply hegemonic nature of Kerala’s responses to its marginalised, latent communalism within the administration and media and so on and so forth.

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First, the bottom line: Pakistan will not break up; there will not be another military coup; the Taliban will not seize the presidency; Pakistan’s nuclear weapons will not go astray; and the Islamic sharia will not become the law of the land.
That’s the good news. It conflicts with opinions in the mainstream U.S. press, as well as with some in the Obama administration. For example, in March, David Kilcullen, a top adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, declared that state (…)

The Delhi High Court judgment in the Naz Foundation case is a landmark verdict which decriminalises homosexuality and strikes a blow in favour of personal freedom on the solid foundations of inclusiveness and respect for diversity; —a marker of the victory of a social struggle for justice. But for that to happen, we’ll have to educate opinion-makers and shapers, the Swami Ramdevs and Laloo Prasads, besides bureaucrats, jurists, members of the National Commission on Women, and many others.