[यह लेख पहले जनवादी लेखक संघ की पत्रिका नया पथ के जनवरी-मार्च २०२१ अंक में प्रकाशित हुआ था. आगामी 11-12 सितम्बर को अमेरिका में होने जा रहे Dismantling Global Hindutva सम्मलेन से उद्वेलित हिंदुत्व के प्रचारक अब इस सम्मलेन को रद्द कराने की मुहीम में उतर चुके हैं. उनका चालाकी भरा तर्क यह है कि … Continue reading किसे है बेनक़ाब होने का डर?
An upcoming conference in the USA, “Dismantling Global Hindutva”, organized by Indians in the USA, most of whom are legally “Hindus”, and supported by over 40 US universities, has provoked the ire of the Hindu Rashtravaadis there as well as in India. Conflating Hindutva with Hinduism is the first step. Based on this, the Hindu … Continue reading If Hindutva is dismantled, whom will it harm? →
An upcoming conference in the USA titled Dismantling Hindutva is being attacked by the Hindu right-wing both in the US and India as “anti Hindu” and “racist”. See for example, this link and this and this. This post is a letter sent to American Universities supporting the conference by US-based HINDUS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. To: … Continue reading Hindutva is not Hinduism: Hindus for Human Rights →
In the recent controversy over the arrest of the travel vloggers Ebin and Libin who rode high on popularity with lakhs of subscribers through their Youtube channel E Bull Jet, it is very hard not to side with the two young men. The flamboyant pair whose hugely popular travel — or ‘van life’ — videos … Continue reading resisting the papa state? E Bull jet brothers or hadiya? →
Moderation and acceptance are parts of a continuous struggle to ensure that democracy does not get subsumed by majoritarianism. ‘The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.’ … Continue reading When public good faces a faith hurdle →
Guest Post by Ravi Sinha Accountability is foundational to democracy and, ultimately, people are supposed to take those in power to account through democratic processes and mechanisms. But, then, we also know what often happens in democracy. Electoral competition gives rise to ‘technologies’ (often religious, cultural and identity-based) which turn citizens into “Bhakts” (devotees) and … Continue reading Some Remarks about Movements →
I am interested in ‘Marxism’ as a field or a force-field in the sense in which we think of electromagnetic or gravitational fields, where objects and bodies impact on other bodies and objects, and have effects, without necessarily coming into contact. Ever since the 2008 financial crisis and the beginning of the end of the … Continue reading Untimely Explorations in a ‘Field’ Called ‘Marxism’ →
[We are publishing below the full response of Concerned Historians to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, regarding certain proposed changes.] RESPONSE OF CONCERNED HISTORIANS On the CALL FOR REVISIONS IN SCHOOL HISTORY BOOKS IN INDIA To be shared with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books.
Several courts have tried to reign in states bent on holding religious events during the pandemic. Judiciary must more proactively prevent them as the third wave approaches. Simple things need retelling when society is in a state of flux. The fact that India is a republic—has been one for more than 70 years—where sovereignty rests … Continue reading Governments Must Implement the Constitution, Not Religious Texts →
Guest post by ANANNYA DASGUPTA Scroll had recently featured the Foreword to a book, with the heading ‘What do allies write about when they write (poetry) about feminism?’ The descriptive tag read – Saikat Majumdar surveys a unique anthology in his Foreword to ‘Collegiality and Other Ballads’. What makes this anthology unique? Sometime in 2020, … Continue reading How Might a Feminist Respond to a Collegial Mansplaining of Feminism? Anannya Dasgupta →
