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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.
Political scientist Neera Chandhoke discusses the fallout of criminalising the anti-CAA protests on Mohandas Gandhi’s legacy and what the movement achieved.
In this interview, Mary Elizabeth King, an expert on nonviolent resistance, discussed how Mohandas Gandhi's civil disobedience influenced the American civil rights movement, and what he might think of India today.
The forced cremation of a Dalit woman marked a new and macabre low for India.
Ruth Manorama, who founded the Federation of Dalit Women in 1995, discussed the crimes in Hathras, endemic casteism and fighting back.
On 5 August, 2020, the Bharatiya Janata Party fulfilled a large part of its Hindu majoritarian agenda.
The Idea of India is HuffPost India’s monthly conversation about how we see ourselves as a people and as a nation.
Four acts of bravery and fortitude.
We look at Shaheen Bagh now, wondering how this leaderless protest, fronted by grandmothers and mothers from Muslim families, blossomed into a battleground for secular values.
Dina M. Siddiqi, a professor of anthropology at New York University, says the monopoly of religious men and cherry-picked politicians speaking for India's Muslims has been broken.