By Ditsa Roy
Politics of “empowerment” has been transmogrified to an electoral politics of caste arithmetic, social engineering, communal rhetoric and occasional freebies.
Tag: Indian Politics
By Somok Roy
Nepal could plausibly be an intimate other, thanks to its Hindu credentials – the difference could just be of a cartographic border, and not a pressing alterity in which the other is also a dangerous threat, the abnormal.
By Saniya Ahmad
Contrary to popular belief, Mr. Modi did not disrupt harmony between Hindus and Muslims because that harmony existed only superficially. He exacerbated a deeply entrenched anti-Muslim sentiment, creating a favorable climate for his bigoted politics to thrive.