Month: July 2017

Statement of Scientists The scientific community is deeply concerned with the climate of intolerance, and the ways in which science and reason are being eroded in the country. It is

Picture a palatial china-white mansionwith a massive porch amidstthe lush green of aGoan village. Guards in slickblue uniform stand in patrolat its entrance. This isthe Sanatan Sansthas ashram atRamnathi, where

Book Review: Shadow Armies: Fringe Organizations and Foot soldiers of Hindutva Cliches apart, there could not have been a more timely book than Shadow Armies: Fringe Organizations and Foot Soldiers

(In conversation with The Wire,Dhirendra Jha talks about his bookShadow Armies: Fringe Organizations and Foot Soldiers of Hindutva.) As goons masquerading as protectors of Hindu values, women or cows attack

We are not prostitutes, we are not drug addicts. #Save us from our parents Hon. Bombay HC, we are victims and we need justice #Save us from our parents read

The RSS agenda of Hindu Rashtra draws heavily on the superiority of Aryan race and greatness of Brahmanical values. The ideology constructed by this organisation tells us that Aryans are

In the 1960s we were confident that the use of religion for political mobilisation would decline because nationalism, namely, the secular, all-inclusive, anti-colonialism nationalism that brought us independence, would, despite

(An excerpt from Rahul SankrityayansTumhari Kshay, on why he thinks people must put humanity above religion.) April 14is the 54th death anniversary of prominent Hindi writer Rahul Sankrityayan, author of

Long years ago, we make a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At

Recently at the release of our book First Food: Culture of Taste, which discusses the link between biodiversity, nutrition and livelihoods, I was asked a question. Why do you not,