This post is prompted by a discussion that followed some remarks I had made on social media regarding the way in which a certain common sense that we may call ‘Hindu Nationalist’, had come to dominate the sensibilities of even those intellectuals in the Hindi world who otherwise might stand opposed to the Hindu Right. … Continue reading Decolonizing Thought – Beyond Indian/ Hindu Exceptionalism →
The BJP is imposing harmful dietary restrictions and refusing to accept that more Indians want to consume meat, fish and eggs for their nutritional benefits. . In 1902, the prolific British writer HG Wells delivered a philosophical speech titled “The Discovery of the Future” at the Royal Institution in London. Wells is often remembered for … Continue reading Why BJP Wants Meat Banned in Mathura →
The 10 th lecture in the Democracy Dialogues Series organised by New Socialist Initiative was delivered by Prof Mridula Mukherjee ( Retd.) on Sunday, 12 th Sepember at 6 PM ( IST). She spoke on ‘Nationalism : Then and Now’ Prof. Mridula Mukherjee, was associated with Centre for Historical Studies, JNU for a long time … Continue reading Nationalism : Then and Now – Professor Mridula Mukherjee →
[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 →
We, the undersigned, condemn the continued incarceration of the academics, cultural activists, human rights activists, lawyers, poets and trade unionists arrested in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case and unitedly demand their immediate release.
JOIN THE 1200 human rights and women’s rights defenders and civil society activists who have signed this petition. Text of petition below. Link to sign the petition. Women of Afghanistan demand a just peace that guarantees the rights of all people. We, the true friends of Afghanistan and signatories of this open letter, declare our … Continue reading Support Afghan women’s demand for a just peace guaranteeing the rights of all people →
[‘Parapolitics’ began on 16 January 2020 as a weekly column at the height of the anti-CAA movement. After eight weeks, it was made into a fortnightly column and now, eighteen months and 44 posts later, as I get involved with a study of Marxisms in the ‘Global South’, beginning with this post, this column will … Continue reading Conceptualizing the Counter-Revolution in the Seventy-Fifth Year of Independence →
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? →
