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• Jinnah Lives Again, What An Irony? | T J S George

  1 April 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Mani Shankar Aiyar hit a political bull’s eye when he said recently that Uttar Pradesh voted for Jinnah in the latest election. Jinnah’s partition philosophy was based on the 80:20 ratio of Hindu-Muslim population. Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the UP election campaign with the same 80:20 argument without realising the trap he was getting into.
  But the trap trapped him. It became clear that there was really no difference between Muhammed Ali Jinnah and Yogi (…)

• Kashmir Files : Half Truths and falsehoods galore | Ram Puniyani

  1 April 2022

  by Ram Puniyani
  Major weapon of sectarian nationalism is to spread misconceptions and create hate against the religious minorities. This process which has been going on since long has now got a new tool, a film, “Kashmir Files”. As such misconceptions against minorities are based on half truths, selective truths, lies and this film is another addition to that. The slogans-misconceptions against religious minorities have gone through various phases. It began with communal historiography. (…)

• The Kashmir Tragedy | Humra Quraishi

  1 April 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  30 March 2022
  No, I have not seen the film – The Kashmir Files. Nor do I plan to view it because the reviews that one has been reading point at two basic flaws: The projections in the film are not necessarily based on pure facts, rather on slants and tilts and distortions and much more along the strain. Also, apparent traces of the vested political interests cum motives behind these projections. And once politics creeps into creativity, it is a dangerous concoction, out to (…)

• Reflections on Tribal Unrest in Central India | Suresh Khairnar

  1 April 2022, by Suresh Khairnar

  Terming the Tribal Unrest as a law and order situation would be gross underestimation of this long-drawn symptom. Exploring the historical root of unrest would be the right way to formulate pragmatic response to this problem.
  1946-51 Telengana Kisan Andolan spearheaded by Leftists is even now termed by some as the golden period of Indian Peasant Movement. Mao’s People’s Movement that took place at the same time in China gave a philip to Indian Communist Movement. As the movement (…)

• On Inclusion, Diversity and Racism in India | Ajailiu Niumai

  1 April 2022

  by Ajailiu Niumai *
  Introduction
  Firstly, I would like to draw my personal experiences to highlight diversity and inclusion. To me, making the personal a part of our larger professional, academic and activists lives is logical and relevant for bridging the gap between ‘us’ (people of North East India) versus ‘them’ (the mainstream Indian people). Let me share that I migrated to Hyderabad to work since October 2000 onwards. My husband is Telegu and he is a Missile Scientist in DRDO. My (…)

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  Sara Suleri: Beyond borders | Beena Sarwar

  1 April 2022

  by Beena Sarwar
  25 March 2022
  “Aur bataiye” – tell me more, a polite invitation to keep talking. I can hear her voice, perhaps naturally husky, made deeper with years of cigarette smoking and perhaps more recently with pain and other medications.
  She’d send her love to Pakistan whenever I’d call before flying out from Boston, where we had both ended up around ten years ago – she after retiring as Professor Emeritus of English from Yale University. I had transplanted myself from my home (…)

• Excessive Tree Felling in Ecologically Crucial Himalayan Region Causes Concern | Bharat Dogra

  1 April 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  Recently former legislator of Himachal Pradesh Bambar Thakur has made a strong indictment of indiscriminate and illegal tree felling at various places in Bilaspur District. He has pointed out very specific sites where such felling of trees has taken place. He has also alleged that when local persons have drawn attention to such felling no action has been taken and hence the mafia involved in such felling has felt emboldened to continue its destructive activities. He has also threatened to (…)

• Who will be hurt more by Sanghi anti-Muslim tirade? | Faraz Ahmad

  1 April 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  The Speaker of Karnataka Assembly announced from the Chair the other day, “Our RSS”. A minister taking the cue mocked the Congress leader saying it will soon be your RSS. Another minister of the BJP government in the state stood up to declare, the day is not far when every Muslim and Christian in the country will join the RSS. Is it an invitation, or a threat? Difficult to say.
  The defeat of secular democratic forces in the just concluded elections to five state assemblies has emboldened (…)

• ECI would do well to count 100% VVPAT slips | Sandeep Pandey, Vikrant Singh and Pawan Singh

  1 April 2022, by Sandeep Pandey

  by Sandeep Pandey, Vikrant Singh and Pawan Singh
  Even though Yogi Adityanath is now back as Chief Minister, the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election results can at best be taken with a pinch of salt. The general mood during the campaign was for change. People wanted the Bhartiya Janata Party government to go. People belonging to communities other than Yadav and Muslim, who were anyway believed to be solidly standing with Samajwadi Party, wanted to see Akhilesh Yadav back as CM, (…)

• Voices from the Peripheral Red Light Ghettos: Subaltern Perspectives in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi | Bhavya

  1 April 2022

  by Bhavya *
  Can the Subaltern Break the hierarchy?
  The Hindi language Bollywood movie ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10083340], directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali with Alia Bhatt in the lead role along with Ajay Devgun playing the role of Karim Lala, Vijay Raaz in the role of the transgender Razia Begum and Jim Sarbh as the Journalist Amin Faizi, raises concerns over the legal and social status of sex workers in India. It recounts the story of how a girl enters into (…)