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2025 Bihar Assembly Election and Changing Contours of Social Justice Politics | Badre Alam Khan

Badre Alam Khan — 2025-11-08T16:26:00Z

- 2025

The Adverse Impact of The New Education Policy (NEP) on Bihar

Badre Alam Khan — 2025-06-21T16:37:19Z

Recently, I attended a one-day programme on,

- 2025

Understanding Rise of Communalism, Lynching and Social Suffering: A Way Forward | Swati Draik, Badre Alam Khan & Sumit Kumar Gupta

Badre Alam Khan — 2024-01-12T05:36:31Z

A two-day workshop conducted by Karwan-e-Mohabbat (karwa of love) on “Communal Violence, Lynching, and Social Suffering and Justice” was held on December 17 and 18, 2023. The workshop, held at Adhchini, Delhi, covered a spectrum of themes including communal violence, the rising threat of majoritarian politics, hate crimes, legal justice, lynching, and the role of the judiciary, state, and wider civil society. The prominent speakers provided insightful and valuable knowledge on such issues. (…)

- 2024

Rise of Hindutva Politics and Crisis of Congress Party: Search for an Alternative Politics | Badre Alam khan and Sanjay Kumar

Badre Alam Khan — 2023-08-05T07:00:03Z

BOOK REVIEW
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Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics Growing Polarization and the Decline of the Congress Party (2009-19)
by Zoya Hasan
Oxford University Press
23 August 2022 | 216 Pages
ISBN: 9780192863416
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The Grand Old Congress Party has for some time now been going through an existential crisis at the ideological and organizational level in current Indian politics. However, the Karnataka Election verdict (2023) has given a new lease of life to the Party. In (…)

- 2023 / Book Review

Underrepresentation of Muslims in Higher Education: Some Reflections | Badre Alam Khan

Badre Alam Khan — 2023-06-09T20:11:23Z

After more than decades of Sachar Report (2006), the educational backwardness of Indian Muslims still remains pathetic and witnessed a terminal decline barring a few exceptions. The latest report of the Government of India has also underlined that Muslim students are underrepresented and missing from higher education. To be very brief here, recent data released by the All India survey of higher education (under the Minister of Education) has underlined that Muslim students are missing from (…)

- 2023

2023 Karnataka Election Verdict and a Shifting Political Discourse | Badre Alam Khan

Badre Alam Khan — 2023-05-20T05:32:13Z

by Badre Alam Khan *
Since the 2014 Lok Sabha election- perhaps for the first time - it appears that the Karnataka election verdict has shown that the communal narrative around electoral politics is now changing. If one could read and decode election results closely, it can be safely argued that political discourse has now shifted from the Right to Centre if not towards the Left. The majoritarian politics led by the BJP-RSS combined has faced stiff opposition and the communal narrative (…)

- 2023

India at 75: What Happened to the Promise of Freedom and Democracy? | Badre Alam Khan

Badre Alam Khan — 2022-09-02T22:19:48Z

India has now completed 75 years of its democratic journey, and we are busy in celebrations. This time perhaps, Indian people across communities and castes have celebrated Independence Day with deep commitments and enthusiasm. In this respect, the Har Ghar Tiranga Yatra campaign has been launched by the government (from 13th August to 15), as part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav . This time Independence Day is being celebrated across the world by the Indian diaspora. To mark the said (…)

- 2022

B.R. Ambedkar's Views on Women Question and Current Electoral Politics | Badre Alam Khan

Badre Alam Khan — 2022-04-29T15:19:42Z

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved (B.R. Ambedkar)
To commemorate 131st Ambedkar Jayanti [birthanniversary] on 14 April, this time several programmes and memorial meetings were organized by the political parties belonging to Left, Right, Secular and Social Justice Parties. Besides, this time Phule-Ambedkar Jayanti was celebrated together with much compassion and commitment across India including on social media platforms. Despite the (…)

- 2022

Bharat Ratna for Sir Syed: Critical Analysis | Badre Alam Khan

Badre Alam Khan — 2021-11-19T12:24:09Z

To celebrate birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1998), the Aligarh Muslim University's alumni who are living in different parts of country including in abroad used to organize a host of academic and literary programmes on 17th October every year to express their tribute. This time while celebrating 204th birth anniversary of Sir Syed (a great educationist, historian and social reformer of 19th century colonial India), the retired Director General of Police(DGP) of Chhattisgarh, (…)

- 2021

Gandhi vs. Ambedkar Debates and Search for Real Swaraj | Badre Alam Khan

Badre Alam Khan — 2021-10-15T14:21:52Z

To celebrate 152 Jayanti of Mahatma Gandhi, on the one hand, most of the political parties from the Left to Right (barring a section of Ambedkarites) including secular parties are busy in celebrating Gandhi's Jayanti with much compassion and commitment. In this respect, civil society and public intellectuals have written several articles in the newspapers and posted messages on social media to express their tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on said occasion. On the other, a section of Hindu (…)

- 2021