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Subhash Gatade — 2026-03-19T03:32:01Z

- 2026

Books as Crime ? Whether J and K High-court Will End the 'Unprecedented Situation' ? | Subhash Gatade

Subhash Gatade — 2025-10-04T10:23:24Z

- 2025

Rightwing-Rightwing Bhai Bhai : Who fears Javed Akhtar ? |

Subhash Gatade — 2025-09-13T05:08:14Z

A 'unity of purpose' has been witnessed between Hindu and Muslim supremacists, who consider themselves the sole spokespersons of 'their community'.
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"The devout man considers me an infidel, and the infidel thinks, (I'm) Muslim /
the non-believer thinks I'm saint, and the saint considers me non-believer/
After hearing both sides, I am amazed/
I'm that subject which is difficult to understand/
If someone is inclined to understand, then I am easy."
— (…)

- 2025

Dark Shadows of Emergency! | Subhash Gatade

Subhash Gatade — 2025-07-05T05:38:13Z

How they have become arsenal for the majoritarian Hindutva forces to convert the sovereign, independent, secular, socialist republic into a Hindu Rashtra.
[ 25 th June 2025 happened to be the fiftieth year of the internal emergency imposed by the then Indira Gandhi regime. Much has changed during all these years but till date we are still far away from a balanced review of that period.
What really prompted Indira Gandhi to declare emergency , whether drive for personal power was the key (…)

- 2025

Bose's 'And Quietly Comes the Dawn,

Subhash Gatade — 2025-06-14T01:47:14Z

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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And Quietly Comes the Dawn:
Haryana

- 2025 / Book Review

New India, Old Beginnings! When NHRC Sings Paens To Manusmriti & Executive Rediscovers Urban Naxalism | Subhash Gatade

Subhash Gatade — 2024-08-03T19:10:22Z

India is a land of many contradictions.
There was a time when it mesmerised people outside for being 'saperon ka desh' or many such exquisite things
Much water has flowed down the various rivers here but it's core essence perhaps remains intact
With the advent of Hindutva Supremacists at the top - who supposedly want India ( rather Hindu India) to be among the top notch countries of the world but who still yearn for a mythic past, such scenes have become a common sight where "Sengol' - (…)

- 2024

PPP in Military Schools - Whether Modi Regime has Facilitated Insidious Militarisation of the Society? | Subhash Gatade

Subhash Gatade — 2024-05-11T02:39:15Z

“The Leader principle, the stress on militarism, the doctrine of racial-cultural superiority, ultra-nationalism infused with religious idealism, the use of symbols of past greatness, the emphasis on national solidarity, the exclusion of religious or ethnic minorities from the nation concept-—all these features of the RSS are highly reminiscent of fascist movements in Europe.” —-Donald Smith, India As a Secular State, Oxford University Press,1963
Introduction
'It is time to impart (…)

- 2024

Wokeism - the new whipping horse of India's Hindutva Right & of the Global Right | Subhash Gatade

Subhash Gatade — 2024-03-23T02:13:59Z

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.—Bertolt Brecht
The global right is 'terrified' (at least that's what it wants us to believe)
We are being increasingly told that it has finally discovered what could prove to be its nemesis.
Right from the likes of Donald Trump to the Indian (…)

- 2024

Waiting to Become Eichmann? Unpacking the Moral Relativism of a People | Subhash Gatade

Subhash Gatade — 2024-02-17T04:12:57Z

“They took so much away from us that they ended up taking away our fear” Message scrawled on a placard in a women's march in Spain
'How does Justice feel?'
A difficult query to answer but perhaps Bilkis Bano would be the best person to respond to it.
Yes the same Bilkis - survivor of a mass rape and the only witness to horrific massacre of her 14 relatives - when the state she lived witnessed a carnage when officially one thousand innocents perished in the communal pogrom and many (…)

- 2024

Debating Hindutva | Subhash Gatade

Subhash Gatade — 2023-07-22T01:39:44Z

Greetings
Thanks for introducing me to Sai Deepak's talks / interventions etc and also asking me to give my take on the debate and also understand it in light of how 'Hindutva is understood or what 'Hindutva is all about'.
Listened to Shashi Tharoor and J Sai Deepak.
https://youtu.be/7x-W_lIH5-4
Before coming to the crux of the issue would love to share my impressions about debate itself, about the speakers, their styles, persuasiveness etc. and share stray comments on some of (…)

- 2023