The attacks in Paris on Charlie Hebdo bring to a fore fault lines in Europe. It has fuelled a European right that is calling for bans on Muslim immigrants. A major French…
Rape in India – Why it becomes a worldwide story
[Plight of Indian women is a marketing tool for the Global evangelical movement.] Rape is a terrible crime, a case where the victims are overwhelmingly women and the perpetrators overwhelmingly men. Every…
Commercial MNCs are checked, so why not religious MNCs?
Anti-conversion laws are needed since thrusting the idea of a competitive battlefield of religion onto India’s pluralistic traditions can only lead to greater communal conflict, argues Sankrant Sanu. The debate on conversion…
RTE Act is destructive and communal
[India needs a decentralised education model that does not impose city standards on schools in villages and tribal areas.] “India is more illiterate than it was fifty or a hundred years…
Narendra Modi reawakens India to its ancient civilizational tryst
(This article appeared in the souvenir released at Madison Square Garden for Prime Minister Modi’s visit. Emphases added) When Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi gave his first speech in parliament he spoke of…
Swachh Bharat needs better governance, civic infrastructure
[With all of Narendra Modi’s good intentions, broom-wielding politicians are not going to create a swachh bharat. Instead, we need massive investment in solid and liquid waste management in India.] For the…
Modi, Madison and Media
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,…
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…
Communalism in Secular Constitution – Time for Reform
India needs freedom from communalism of minority-majority politics. It may be the law of unintended consequences or it may simply be the result of the climate of partition in which our Constitution…
Indian Left’s support for Palestine follows European script and history
[New Delhi: Left leaders protest against Israel’s attack on Gaza at Parliament House in New Delhi on July 18. PTI Photo by Atul Yadav] Palestine is a pivotal cause for the…