Amid the mix of the cynical, the patronizing, the downright racist and the ebullient reporting from Madison Square Garden it is easy to miss the forest for the trees. Beyond the song,…
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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…
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,…
The secular rapes of Badaun
There is a danger in turning incidental criminal acts into grand narratives about society. The New York Times made this point in cautioning against creating broad narratives of society based on the misogynistic murders…
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…
Teaching Pluralism and Tolerance: Building on Our Own Traditions
This was first published in the print edition of Manushi journal, Issue no. 137 of 2003. “Aap Hindu ho ya Muslim?” (Are you a Hindu or a Muslim?) It was an innocent question asked by…