Rajeer Bhargava 4 October 2019
Gandhi’s religious vision encouraged multiple attachments, multiple belongings, and multiple religious identities. Is it not time that we challenge the idea of religion as an exclusive monolith.
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- Maria Tavernini 28 August 2019Kashmir has been buried under a thick silence. Local newspapers’ websites were last updated on August 4th while reporters had to transport their articles and photos out of the state on USBs, and many got their footages deleted. The government claims everything is under control and going back to “normal”, while pharmacies are running out of medicines due to the curfew and ban on movements.
- 31 July 2019Two months after Rahul Gandhi first offered to resign, the Indian National Congress is still staring at political uncertainty. After a second, humiliating defeat in general elections, the party desperately needs a new strategy, narrative, and leader.
- Maria Tavernini 3 June 2019India is becoming an increasingly dangerous and inhospitable place for its minorities and is drifting away from the secular character its founding fathers fought for is no longer in doubt. This is something Modi himself must realize.
- Maria Tavernini 3 May 2019The number of incidents of communal violence in India increased between 2014 and 2017. What causes lie behind such clashes and what solution to tame further social tensions?
- Maria Tavernini 2 April 2019The world’s largest democracy is getting ready for the parliamentary elections, and Indian parties are planning their next political campaign moves.
- Maria Tavernini 1 March 2019The recent military escalation reflects the underlying dynamics of the never-ending Kashmir conflict.
- Mujibur Rehman 24 January 2019The electoral defeat of the BJP does not mark the end of Hindu nationalism as such, not even its retreat
- Mujibur Rehman 28 December 2018At a national executive meeting in New Delhi last September the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party Amit Shah said that the party would remain in power for the next 50 years if it won the 2019 general election. Was he just dreaming?
- Floriane Bolazzi 18 October 2018At the origins of the anger of the Indian farmers is a complex combination of deep agrarian crisis coupled with a lack of opportunity outside of farming sectors. The feelings of injustice are compounded by a sense of exclusion from Narendra Modi’s India Shining campaign since 2014. Now, in the run-up to national elections in 2019, peasants’ demands generally enjoy public sympathy and widespread support — instilling some fears of a possible upset within the ruling party.
