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In 2020, a common strand linking India and the United States was the world’s largest and oldest democracies punishing their citizens for resisting injustice.
The forced cremation of a Dalit woman marked a new and macabre low for India.
On 5 August, 2020, the Bharatiya Janata Party fulfilled a large part of its Hindu majoritarian agenda.
The political activist says the propaganda around the Citizenship Amendment Bill is anti-Muslim, but it's not going to benefit Hindus.
The Modi government wants to roll out the NRC across the country, despite its human toll and violent disruption of daily life.
29 days have gone by since mobile phone services and the internet was severed in Kashmir. The Modi government is yet to disclose how many Kashmiris have been arrested since 5 August.
Kashmiri journalist Rahul Pandita believes in the abrogation of Article 370, but not the continuing restrictions, arrests and detentions in Jammu and Kashmir.
Banu Subramaniam, author of Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindutva, explains how a term first coined by Michel Foucault helps us understand Hindu nationalism in India.
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The author of Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindutva explains how a term first coined by Michel Foucault helps us understand Hindu nationalism in India.