TRUE RELIGION
True religion…how does one interpret and define. Man searches for that higher power, in hopes that some entity, somewhere, may … Continue reading TRUE RELIGION
True religion…how does one interpret and define. Man searches for that higher power, in hopes that some entity, somewhere, may … Continue reading TRUE RELIGION
The acclaimed director revisits his creative journey while making documentary films on rising communalism in India in the 1990s. First … Continue reading The making of “Ram Ke Naam”: a Hinduism that is the mirror opposite of Hindutva
Kunal Purohit has investigated the use – and abuse – of popular culture by the Hindu Right. In recent years, … Continue reading In new book, an exploration of Hindutva’s paranoid triumphalism through H-Pop
With not even Europe fully supporting the US-UK stance on Israel, these two powers stand isolated globally. THE Israel-Palestine conflict … Continue reading A middle path needed to resolve Israel-Palestine conflict
They have mapped, step by step, India’s descent (although some see it as an ascent) into first majoritarianism and then … Continue reading The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world
It was still dark outside when Umar Khalid sat down to make the farewell video. He had stayed up all night … Continue reading Umar Khalid Challenged Modi’s Anti-Muslim Agenda. India Accused Him of Terrorism and Locked Him Up.
Supposedly irrefutable evidence of division is said to lie in the Muslims over the last 1,000 years having victimised the … Continue reading What History Really Tells Us About Hindu-Muslim Relations
Hindutva subverts accommodative and porous aspects of Hinduism by strengthening its discriminatory aspects. It seeks not transformation but to establish … Continue reading Is Hindutva a Duplicate of Hinduism or its Polar Opposite?
The message matters more than the man. KEY TAKEAWAYS Early Christianity was a synthesis of Jewish and Greek ideas and … Continue reading Does it matter if there was a historical Jesus?
The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies. On August 11th, two weeks after … Continue reading Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India
India has seen two very powerful general strikes in the past two years, revealing a sharp class polarisation in the … Continue reading Electoral disaster for Indian Left: What is to be done?
In this article I analyses the political implications of the Pope’s resignation. Benedict XVI was not detached from today’s world. … Continue reading The resignation of Benedict XVI – Truths and Lies
Contrary to popular myth, it wasn’t Prince Albert but another German royal transplant who introduced the Christmas tree to Britain: … Continue reading The First Christmas Tree