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Being Hindu Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Journey from Hindu Nationalism to Inclusive Indian Identity

Published : Dec 10, 2024 08:27 IST - 5 MINS READ In popular imagination, Lala Lajpat Rai is often associated with Bhagat Singh, who assassinated a British police officer to avenge Rai’s death. Significantly, even after joining the Hindu Mahasabha, Rai’s earlier “accommodative Indian nationalism” continued to impact his ideas and activities. Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas …

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11 months, 1 week ago

The path towards a pluralist civil society

The Hindu

During the inaugural session of the new Parliament, controversy erupted after Members were gifted copies of the Indian Constitution, wherein the Preamble appeared to have dispensed with the terms ‘Socialist’ and ‘Secular’. She looks at ‘how the idea of popular sovereignty and its relation to constitutionalism developed as a result of inter-generational discourse in Indian political thought during the pre-founding …

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1 year, 6 months ago

UCC : EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL – India TV

India TV News

The Parliament Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice headed by BJP leader Sushil Modi will hear on July 3 officials from Law Ministry and the Law Commission on the issue of reviewing personal laws. This comes in the backdrop of the Law Commission inviting views from the public including all stakeholders on the need to bring a …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Muslim bodies say the Law Commission’s move inviting suggestions for Uniform Civil Code is ‘against the spirit of the Constitution’

The Hindu

Leading Muslim bodies have come out in opposition to the proposed Uniform Civil Code. Calling the Law Commission’s move to seek suggestions from all stakeholders for a common code “against the spirit of the Constitution” and “contrary to religious freedom enjoyed by all citizens”, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board urged the government to think over the proposal again. …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Sudan Memory: Inside decade-long effort to preserve culture threatened by devastating conflict

The Independent

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1 year, 9 months ago

Column: Gen Z has good reason to be angry. Will they burn it all down?

LA Times

Generation Z seems like a paradox: far more open to diverse viewpoints and compromise than older Americans, but also in some ways more dogmatic. “You either have sensitivity to people or you don’t,” Mariah Allen, an 18-year-old Black student at Loyola Marymount University, told me ahead of her class on Bad Bunny’s activism. “If you don’t, you’re kind of being …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Indian Constitution Reflects India's Essential Nature As A Pluralist & Tolerant Society : United Nations Representative

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The Indian Constitution reflects India's essential nature as a pluralist and tolerant society, said United Nations Resident Coordinator for India, Shombi Sharp, on Saturday. As the world's largest democracy and as holder of crucial positions in international organisations, such as the presidency of the United Nations Security Council and the G20, the world is increasingly looking to India's leadership in …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Independence, in the words of a young American

The Hindu

Independent India will turn 75 on Sunday, under the helm of an Adivasi President and a Gujarati Prime Minister, who, in their addresses to the nation, will give voice to the extraordinary civilisational ethos of our country that they themselves personify. A rare privilege My mind turns this week, though, to another very special moment 75 years ago — the …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Legends of the Ramayana review: Amish Tripathi's docuseries celebrates India’s pluralist cultural heritage

Firstpost

Legends Of The Ramayana is for those who delight in symbol and metaphor, and are willing to be struck by wonder even as they exercise their critical faculties. Language: Hindi, English Amish Tripathi, who has written the Ramchandra series of novels based on the Ramayana, can now be seen in a three-part documentary series called Legends of the Ramayana with …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Putin has really misread Ukraine

Al Jazeera

On February 24, Russia started a massive invasion of Ukraine. The Russian army has also gone as far as attacking Ukrainian nuclear power sites in Chernobyl and Enerhodar, dangling the threat of a nuclear disaster in Europe’s face. Its general narrative during the past years has been that Ukrainians are not a nation; that Ukrainian identity was invented by “Nazis” …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Russia's Ukraine invasion is not just about borders or power. For Putin, it's about identity

ABC

This is the sort of war the West does not know how to fight. Putin has unleashed a war of identity on Ukraine to stop its drift to the West, break its will, and exact revenge on the West. Russia has invaded Ukraine: Here's what you need to know Photo shows Vladimir Putin surrounded by Russian military generals in uniform …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Uttarakhand CM’s push for UCC sparks debate on States bringing their own code

The Hindu

Poll-bound Uttarakhand's Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami's announcement on Saturday that the Bharatiya Janata Party, if voted back to power, will form a committee to prepare a draft of the Uniform Civil Code in the State, raises questions over whether an individual State can bring its own family law code and the ripples the move may create in a pluralist …

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2 years, 11 months ago

India: Gandhi’s killer Godse never left RSS, claims new book

Al Jazeera

Mahatma Gandhi, India’s independence leader and an advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity, was assassinated on this day in 1948 by a Hindu militant leader Ramachandra Vinayak Godse. The book Gandhi’s Assassin: The making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India is a credible account of Gandhi’s assassination and how it was linked to Hindu far-right groups such as RSS, Hindu …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Hamid Ansari criticizes Indian democracy in an event co-hosted by IAMC

Op India

On the 26th of January, former Vice President Hamid Ansari made contentious remarks on a virtual program hosted by several American organizations. He made the comments in an online event titled ‘Protecting India’s Pluralist Constitution’, which was organised by The Indian American Muslim Council. The online event which was touted as a ‘Special Congressional Briefing’ also included Senator Ed Markey …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Majoritarianism is a political pandemic: Mukul Kesavan

The Hindu

Terming majoritarianism a ‘political pandemic’, writer-historian Mukul Kesavan has said such tendencies have become an existential threat to pluralist societies and polities across the world. Mr. Kesavan, an associate professor of History and Culture at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi, pointed out majoritarianism that referred to a notion that a nation’s political destiny should be determined by ethnic or …

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3 years, 5 months ago

India’s pluralist heritage and the making of Amartya Sen

Live Mint

Amartya Sen’s Home In The World is a memoir of ideas and thoughts, of the emergence of theories, of the discourses that have shaped many dominant concepts of 20th century economics. It is also a book about the history and philosophy of these ideas covering the first 30 years of Sen’s life—but seen through contemporary polity, both Indian and global. …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Pompeo Greets Indians on I-Day, Says US & India Have Shared Close Bonds of Friendship and Democratic Traditions

News 18

The US and India share close bonds of friendship and democratic traditions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said as he greeted Indians on the occasion of their 74th Independence Day. "On behalf of the government of the United States of America and the American people, I extend greetings and best wishes to the people of India on your Independence Day," …

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4 years, 5 months ago

U.S. and India have shared close bonds of friendship and democratic traditions, says Mike Pompeo

The Hindu

The U.S. and India share close bonds of friendship and democratic traditions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said as he greeted Indians on the occasion of their 74th Independence Day. “On behalf of the government of the United States of America and the American people, I extend greetings and best wishes to the people of India on your Independence Day,” …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Pluralist vs polarised grassroots democracy

Deccan Chronicle

The politics of representation in India, at this moment, is undergoing a change. In the present, there is what feels like a build-up of seismic pressures that will transform the familiar and so comfortable, ersatz multiparty system into one where different parties are compelled to be responsive to the mature and full political consciousness that has come out on the …

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5 years ago

CAA isn’t a Hindu-Muslim issue

The Hindu

Instead of protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act, Indian Muslims should take Home Minister Amit Shah at his word. Third, it is best that the fight against the CAA is led by secular-minded and pluralist segments among Hindus and Muslims jointly rather than be turned into a Hindu-Muslim issue. Finally, Muslims should hold their political fire to oppose stringently the …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Gopalika Antharjanam: ‘It is our right to learn or teach any language’

The Hindu

Gopalika Antharjanam taught Arabic in a Kerala school from 1986 until her retirement in 2017. In the pluralist society of Kerala, a Brahmin woman hailing from a family of priests, teaching Arabic was not considered blasphemous. In 1982, when she first joined a school as a teacher of Arabic for five months, a section of students protested, and the school …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Indian majoritarianism subtle, but deadly

Deccan Chronicle

It is defined as a political philosophy where the majority community is pre-eminent and enjoys primacy, meaning more rights than other communities. Sri Lanka’s Constitution says: “The Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place and accordingly it shall be the duty of the state to protect and foster the Buddha Sasana.” This line will always give …

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5 years, 2 months ago

General election: Take note, centre-left parties – economic populism will determine who wins

The Independent

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55 years ago

German City Declares “Nazi Emergency”

Slate

The city council of the eastern German city of Dresden passed an alarming resolution this week declaring the city to be in the grips of a Nazinotstand or “Nazi emergency.” The resolution was put to the city council Wednesday, decrying that “anti-democratic, anti-pluralist, misanthropic and right-wing-extremist attitudes and actions, including violence in Dresden, are occurring with increasing frequency.” The city …

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Being Hindu Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Journey from Hindu Nationalism to Inclusive Indian Identity

The path towards a pluralist civil society

UCC : EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL – India TV

Muslim bodies say the Law Commission’s move inviting suggestions for Uniform Civil Code is ‘against the spirit of the Constitution’

Sudan Memory: Inside decade-long effort to preserve culture threatened by devastating conflict

Column: Gen Z has good reason to be angry. Will they burn it all down?

Indian Constitution Reflects India's Essential Nature As A Pluralist & Tolerant Society : United Nations Representative

Independence, in the words of a young American

Legends of the Ramayana review: Amish Tripathi's docuseries celebrates India’s pluralist cultural heritage

Putin has really misread Ukraine

Russia's Ukraine invasion is not just about borders or power. For Putin, it's about identity

Uttarakhand CM’s push for UCC sparks debate on States bringing their own code

India: Gandhi’s killer Godse never left RSS, claims new book

Hamid Ansari criticizes Indian democracy in an event co-hosted by IAMC

Majoritarianism is a political pandemic: Mukul Kesavan

India’s pluralist heritage and the making of Amartya Sen

Pompeo Greets Indians on I-Day, Says US & India Have Shared Close Bonds of Friendship and Democratic Traditions

U.S. and India have shared close bonds of friendship and democratic traditions, says Mike Pompeo

Pluralist vs polarised grassroots democracy

CAA isn’t a Hindu-Muslim issue

Gopalika Antharjanam: ‘It is our right to learn or teach any language’

Indian majoritarianism subtle, but deadly

General election: Take note, centre-left parties – economic populism will determine who wins

German City Declares “Nazi Emergency”