India’s high marriage rage victimizes tribal and rural communities, it shouldn’t raise the age of marriage further The government a few months ago announce a “review” panel for deciding the legal age…
Author: Sankrant Sanu
हम भी देखेंगे Ham bhi dekhenge
हम भी देखेंगे हम देखेंगेविधिवत है हम भी देखेंगेवो युग कि जिसका वादा हैजो वेद-पुराण में साधा हैकलियुग के दानव दहशतगर्दमाया की तरह उड़ जाएँगे धर्म वीरों के पाँव तलेये धरती धड़-धड़…
Draft Freedom of Religion Act for Indigenous Traditions
An act providing the freedom of religion for all communities and the freedom to practice their traditions without interference or unsolicited proselytization. For a background on how “Freedom of Religion” differs for…
Constitutional Minorityism: India as A Religious Apartheid State
Cover picture updated Dec 30, 2020 Former prime minister Manmohan Singh had famously said that ‘minorities have the first claim on (the country’s) resources’. While this was hailed as a ‘secular’ statement,…
Why Murti-Puja (“idol worship”) is an antidote to fundamentalism
Forgive me, Oh, Shiva, my three paap! I came on a pilgrimage to Kashi forgetting that you are omnipresent. In thinking about you I forgot that You are beyond thought. In praying to You I…
Love Jihad is more than just a Conspiracy Theory
The “Love Jihad” controversy has been generating more heat than light. NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain weighed in with an analysis of rape numbers by community, without normalising for relative population sizes. While Rupa Subramanya critiqued the…
Emergency1975 – हादसा
हादसा (Accident) १९७५ में रची प्रो० महेन्द्र प्रताप की कविता जो आपातकाल में प्रतिबन्धित रही। संग्रह “दहन ” से। English translation Accident (from “The Burning”) Two months ago The country was…
AAP survey shows leadership still trusted but little else
Sankrant.org surveyed AAP core volunteers, included people that were AAP candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The results showed disappointment at the election results and uncertainty about the party’s future direction. However,…
Dead Peoples Tell No Tales
Locating Doniger in the discourse of power “I set out to grasp the mechanisms of the effective exercise of power; and I do this because those who are inserted in these relations…
The Land of Equality, Part III
The Land of Equality Part I The Land of Equality Part II I walked out of the university campus bewildered after meeting Prof. Ghasin. The country of Ladnam was clearly committed to…