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The Sundarayya Vignana Kendram, a renowned library, cultural and research centre has been striving for the last two decades in preserving the composite cultural heritage of the Indian civilization. The attack on such a renowned cultural centre is totally unacceptable. It is against all norms of civil society. We are concerned with the increasing acts of cultural policing and fascist attacks and call upon the civil society to reject the politics of intolerance, hate and vandalism.

After much dilly-dallying, the Mumbai police finally arrested Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray last week for inciting ethnic violence and rioting. This is a non-bailable offence, which entails imprisonment for up to 3 years. Yet, Mr Thackeray was released on bail within a mere 3 hours. He doesn’t deny that his supporters indulged in violence against North Indians, but says that was a "reaction" to "provocations" by Samajwadi Party leaders.
Mr Thackeray should of course be (…)

Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, Special Issue: "The Eurasian Context of the Early Modern History of Mainland South East Asia, 1400-1800". (Jul., 1997), pp. 735-762.
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Now that the dust has settled over the Gujarat elections, we can afford to defy the pundits and admit that, even if Narendra Modi had lost the last elections, it would not have made much difference to the culture of Gujarat politics. Modi had already done his job. Most of the state’s urban middle class would have remained mired in its inane versions of communalism and parochialism and the VHP and the Bajrang Dal would have continued to set the tone of state politics. Forty years of dedicated propaganda does pay dividends, electorally and socially.

It’s a dramatisation about a British bengali girl who goes to Bangladesh on holiday and is auctioned and forced into marriage by her father and uncle ... .