A Foreigner, a Suspect, outside Kashmir
To be a Kashmiri in India is to be a stranger in your own country. Writer Majid Maqbool here writes about the experience of Kashmiris under the rule of Modi and the BJP.
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The Forsaken Ones
Since the beginning of April, Muslims in India have faced increasing religious persecution and attacks, events that have escalated across the country. Shivangi Mariam Raj reports on this state-led hatred and violence, and the threat of genocide facing the country's 207 million Muslims.
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Varavara Rao in Prison: Urban Maoists and Other Enemies of the Indian State
Aditya Bahl protests against the continued imprisonment of the Marxist poet, Varavara Rao, and examines how the current cycle of rightwing repression is part of a much longer political history, shaped by the changing relationship between the Indian state and capitalism.
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Destroying to Replace: Settler Colonialism from Kashmir to Palestine
"Despite India’s successful overthrow of British rule, it has created a colonial occupation of its own in Jammu and Kashmir. And recently, it has been taking its cues straight from Israel’s playbook."
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No Country for Women
Shigraf Zahbi reports on misogyny in Modi's India.
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Living as a Virus in Modi's India
From New Delhi, Shigraf Zahbi reports on how "the virus" became "the Muslim virus" in less than a week.
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Kashmir on the Edge of the Abyss
Tariq Ali on the situation in Kashmir
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Hostages to Democracy
Focussing on the Indian government's counterinsurgency operations against Maoists in Bastar, Nandini Sundar examines how formal democracy works to subvert popular power.
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Hindu Authoritarianism and Agrarian Distress
To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism we have to fight against more than just communalism.
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The Paradox of the Holy Cow
Historian D.N. Jha describes the contradictions of the purificatory role of cows in early Brāhmaņical society.
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Marxism and Nationalism
Achin Vanaik surveys a large body of theories of the nation and nationalism, and considers them in the context of contemporary India.
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Is Hindu Communalism Fascism?
From part three of The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism, Achin Vanaik's proposed framework for evaluating contemporary authoritarianism and nationalism.
