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The constant invention of the ’other’ as a necessary tactic of survival by the Shiv Sena, and now the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in Bombay

[Asian Age >http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/opinion/op-ed/old-fears-and-bitterness-now-resurface-in-assam.aspx]
The girl from a television channel in New Delhi was extremely enthusiastic on the phone. She wanted me to go on air the next evening on a live interview with another panelist on the situation in Assam — conveniently called the "Bodo-Muslim clashes". I debated the issue internally and finally decided that it was not appropriate to do so because the situation (…)

Economic and Political Weekly, 25 October 2008
Denial of Rights to Sexual Minorities Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code must be repealed because it denies constitutional rights to sexual minorities.
One of the crimes of the State in independent India is that it has continued to retain on its statutes many laws that were enacted by the colonial government. High on the list of laws that reflect the need to control is Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Section 377 holds that (…)