The only thing that Indian 'secular liberals' have ever truly supported is Islamist patriarchy
4 years, 9 months ago

The only thing that Indian 'secular liberals' have ever truly supported is Islamist patriarchy

Op India  

In America, the outpouring of public anger and outrage continues. How much more is needed before Indian society comes to accept the reality of the oppression faced by Hindus? Whenever the painful history of Hindus is brought up, the Indian intellectual elite has another diversionary arrow in its quiver: talking about the caste oppression in Hindu society. The Indian elite is not just hiding how Hindus faced oppression as a community. Indian liberals supported Article 370 that discriminated against Dalits Do not forget how Indian liberals supported Article 370.

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India, liberalism and its crisis of legitimacy
9 months, 3 weeks ago

India, liberalism and its crisis of legitimacy

The Hindu  

Amid the heated rhetoric that is already consuming most of the space for ideas in this acrimonious and protracted general election, there seems little space for engaging in a more serious discussion about political values. Tagore’s was an authentically Indian liberal voice of freedom, insisting that every individual be free to pursue his destiny: “Give me the strength never to…bend …

Secularism does not mean non-religious but equal respect to all faiths, says EAM Jaishankar
1 year, 4 months ago

Secularism does not mean non-religious but equal respect to all faiths, says EAM Jaishankar

Firstpost  

The senior BJP leader said the political and social changes seen in India in the last few years have partly been a reaction “at an intellectual and political level” to this sense of unfairness. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar emphasized that secularism in India entails equal respect for all faiths, dispelling the notion that it implies non-religiosity. Speaking during an …

INTERVIEW | ‘Marxists have failed to internalise Indian ethos’: K Satchidanandan
1 year, 7 months ago

INTERVIEW | ‘Marxists have failed to internalise Indian ethos’: K Satchidanandan

New Indian Express  

Do you think Indian Marxists have succeeded in internalising the Indian ethos, as they seem to flounder when it comes to matters of faith or spirituality? Gandhi would be the best example of a person who understood the Indian ethos. Spirituality is an essential dimension of human life that prompts us to understand the universe, something that compels us to …

On a knife’s edge: Liberal Muslims left with little elbow room to raise genuine concerns within community
2 years, 1 month ago

On a knife’s edge: Liberal Muslims left with little elbow room to raise genuine concerns within community

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 23, 2023 10:50 IST Let us begin by defining who is actually a liberal, irrespective of faith. A liberal Muslim is sandwiched between two groups of extremists, one from her own community and the other, and more visibly vocal one today, the hydra-headed Hindutva’s foot soldiers and ideologues. The Muslim liberal today is faced with the highly …

The role of liberal Muslims in India today
2 years, 1 month ago

The role of liberal Muslims in India today

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 23, 2023 10:50 IST Any discussion on the predicament of liberal Muslims in contemporary India will remain meaningless if the term “liberal Muslims” is not adequately analysed. Second, liberal Muslims’ adherence to secularism and liberal values empowers them to speak on behalf of all “concerned citizens” irrespective of their class, region or religion. The “liberalism” of liberal …

The Great Indian Secularism: Why We Need an Indigenous Model That Recognises Bharat - News18
2 years, 7 months ago

The Great Indian Secularism: Why We Need an Indigenous Model That Recognises Bharat - News18

News 18  

The Muslim clergy, representing the gargantuan chunk of one among the six notified minorities on TV debates, claim to believe in the neologism of Ganga-Jamni Tehzeeb. With the backing of the Nehruvian establishment, academics, ideologues and activists with political agendas and communist proclivities have cleverly advertised secularism and reduced it to having odious and pejorative opinions about the majority — …

Nupur Sharma has erred, no doubt: But why are liberals mutedly supporting Islamist challenge to her right to life?
2 years, 9 months ago

Nupur Sharma has erred, no doubt: But why are liberals mutedly supporting Islamist challenge to her right to life?

Firstpost  

It’s a typical Indian liberal propensity to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. In fact, she could have taken note of the 1985 Quran petition in the Calcutta High Court, where one Chandmal Chopra questioned certain ayats of the holy book to say that they promoted “disharmony, feeling of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities …

Dear Liberals, if Hindus are so terrible, we hope you deal with pious Muslims soon. Here is how that encounter might go
3 years, 4 months ago

Dear Liberals, if Hindus are so terrible, we hope you deal with pious Muslims soon. Here is how that encounter might go

Op India  

For years, the liberal hatred of everything Hindu was a subtle phenomenon. Now, lets see what the liberals will have to grapple with if they come to deal with pious Muslims:- Rampant beheadings, murders and religious conversions For instance, after Hindus objected to the use of the term “Jashn-e-Riwaz” to describe the festival of Diwali by FabIndia, they were subjected …

A scuffle has broken out among the “liberals” : Here is what you need to know
3 years, 7 months ago

A scuffle has broken out among the “liberals” : Here is what you need to know

Op India  

By now, everyone on social media has heard about the incident involving NDTV. For the liberal elite, the wheels on their “too clever by half” strategy are finally coming off. Because the Hindu community is open to change and willing to act on its faults, this ensured that the liberal elites could make a living out of this. This is …

Living together, separately
3 years, 8 months ago

Living together, separately

Hindustan Times  

The findings of the latest Pew survey on religion in India raise questions that lie at the heart of India’s contemporary political debates. While it is tempting to conclude that existing social barriers are insurmountable, it is also true that more Indians than at any point in history are defying caste and religion structures in making life choices, including marriage. …

Indian Americans: liberal in the US, conservative in India
4 years, 1 month ago

Indian Americans: liberal in the US, conservative in India

Live Mint  

Ever since he’s been elected, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached out to the Indian diaspora, a cornerstone of the Bharatiya Janata Party -government's foreign policy. Excerpts from an email interview: The survey suggests an interesting contrast: Indian Americans have relatively liberal views on US politics but rather conservative on the Indian issues. Modi seems to have a larger support …

Liberal outrage over no Muslims in Bihar’s ruling alliance hides caste realities in Indian Muslim society
4 years, 4 months ago

Liberal outrage over no Muslims in Bihar’s ruling alliance hides caste realities in Indian Muslim society

Op India  

Apparently, for the first time since independence, the ruling alliance in Bihar will have no elected MLAs from the Muslim community. The remaining 85% of Indian Muslims, the “lower” caste or Pasmanda Muslims, never had any share in political power. But, by denying the existence of caste in Indian Muslim society, liberal intellectuals have used the general backwardness of Indian …

The US Left and Indian democracy | Analysis
5 years, 2 months ago

The US Left and Indian democracy | Analysis

Hindustan Times  

The nullification of Article 370 has prompted the Left-Liberal segment of the American establishment to denounce Indian democracy as “majoritarian”. The abrogation of Article 370 is criticised but little concern is shown for iniquities that sheltered under the benign term, for example, the ethnic cleansing of Pandits, discrimination against Dalits, corruption, and the blight of dynastism For much of the …

Cultural Marxism: Liberals oppose the CAB because of Hinduphobia which dictates that Hindus must never be recognized as Victims
5 years, 3 months ago

Cultural Marxism: Liberals oppose the CAB because of Hinduphobia which dictates that Hindus must never be recognized as Victims

Op India  

The Liberal Meltdown over the Citizenship Amendment Bill has been one for the ages. Read: From Nehru-Liaquat Pact to Rohingyas: Here are the most important takeaways from Amit Shah’s reply on CAB Even as Pakistan continues to function as an Islamic state which sponsors terrorism against India, ‘liberals’ chastize India for making efforts to provide citizenship to the religious minorities …

Citizenship Amendment Bill has exposed Indian ‘liberals’ like never before
5 years, 3 months ago

Citizenship Amendment Bill has exposed Indian ‘liberals’ like never before

Op India  

Take a close look at this tweet. Suffice to say that Israel’s neighbors would take another thousand years to even understand the principles involved here and why they matter. Read: At the stroke of midnight, as Lok Sabha passed Citizenship Amendment Bill, ‘seculars’ can’t keep calm But to see all these groups come together under one umbrella with the single …

Indian liberals are adrift today. Here is a way out
5 years, 5 months ago

Indian liberals are adrift today. Here is a way out

Hindustan Times  

There is confusion on the way forward among Indian liberals. On the two basic social needs — identity and community — which have been mobilised by the Right to construct its political majority, Indian liberalism has no mass narrative. Culture is one area where Indian liberalism could construct an accessible mass identity and community, but instead Indian liberals are often …

How Indian ‘liberals’ supporting Article 370 are like the racists in 50s and 60s America
5 years, 7 months ago

How Indian ‘liberals’ supporting Article 370 are like the racists in 50s and 60s America

Op India  

Yesterday, the Government of India scrapped Article 370, making every Indian an equal citizen, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. How far are Indian liberals from “standing at the door” like Governor George Wallace, demanding that India must enforce segregation? You see, until around 1965, a bunch of American states used to enforce what were called “Jim Crow laws.” These laws mandated …

Opinion | A truly fair form of liberalism must survive and thrive in India
5 years, 9 months ago

Opinion | A truly fair form of liberalism must survive and thrive in India

Live Mint  

A day after the election results were announced, I wrote that many Indian liberals were in fact illiberal, elitist, and unwilling to listen to the other side of the debate. A lone voice wrote: “Just because a Swarajya founder wrote a piece doesn’t mean that you won’t apply your intelligence to assess the intellectual quality of the article?” I left …

Liberals tried to change the narrative desperately after realising that most Indian don’t hate their country
6 years, 1 month ago

Liberals tried to change the narrative desperately after realising that most Indian don’t hate their country

Op India  

Indian liberals have a big problem on their hands. Because liberals hold India “guilty” of the mere act of survival, that too managing to have a larger territory than Pakistan. For liberals, this is even more proof of India’s “guilt”. This time because the supposed “victims” literally don’t exist and never did exist, there can be no questions asked if …

‘New secularism’ of Indian liberals is a scary kind of fundamentalism
6 years, 10 months ago

‘New secularism’ of Indian liberals is a scary kind of fundamentalism

Op India  

A few years ago, Al-Shabab, the radical Islamist group in Somalia, made a decision to put a ban on samosas. How different is Al-Shabab’s 2011 war on samosas from what I call the “new secularism” that is practised by Indian liberals of today? This mutant form, which I call “new secularism” is much more aggressive than anything seen in the …

Freedom to Love is For Everyone: Amish on LGBT Rights, Sec 377
7 years, 6 months ago

Freedom to Love is For Everyone: Amish on LGBT Rights, Sec 377

The Quint  

A liberal society is built on the foundation of respect for liberty and individual rights: none shall face discrimination from the law, and all can exercise the right to lead their life the way they wish to, so long as they don’t force their choices upon others. However, the post-independence form of Indian liberalism is a unique creature; it is …

Three traits of an Indian pseudo liberal – an easy guide to identify them
7 years, 8 months ago

Three traits of an Indian pseudo liberal – an easy guide to identify them

Op India  

Indian liberals have been actively at play in the mainstreams of politics, media and art for decades since independence. From selective “blue ticks” to using their foothold in mainstream media to promote “favourable” social media handles, such as selected stand-up comedians, they know the art of keeping hold on narrative and perception. For example, if you spot a social media …

Presidential poll : Liberals are fighting on the wrong side of history
7 years, 8 months ago

Presidential poll : Liberals are fighting on the wrong side of history

Op India  

The BJP fielded Bihar Governor Ramnath Kovind as its candidate for the President of India. The BJP’s continued Dalit outreach unnerved the Congress, which decided to field Babu Jagjivan Ram’s daughter Meira Kumar. On the other hand, it is quite laughable that the Congress thinks elevating a political princess who just happens to belong to the Dalit caste, is somehow …

US has ‘9/11 liberals’ but India is still waiting for the ‘26/11 liberals’
7 years, 9 months ago

US has ‘9/11 liberals’ but India is still waiting for the ‘26/11 liberals’

Op India  

“9/11 liberal” is a term most probably coined by Bill Maher, a political commentator, comedian, and host of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher show. According to Maher, 9/11 liberals include people like him, Salman Rushdie, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and of course, late Christopher Hitchens. Unlike others, who constantly harp on motherhood statements like “All religions …

‘Focus on Caste’- Deputy Editor of Huffpost India advises Left Liberals on how to counter Right Wing
7 years, 11 months ago

‘Focus on Caste’- Deputy Editor of Huffpost India advises Left Liberals on how to counter Right Wing

Op India  

May 2014 was the wake-up call for Left Liberals in India. Set the agenda”, Vij advised fellow left liberals to avoid getting into the debates set by the right, instead he asked them to do this: To counter Hindutva, left-liberals need to focus on caste. A few days back during the issue regarding Sonu Nigam’s tweets, Vij wrote a post …

Liberals, It’s Do or Die in an Increasingly Conservative India
7 years, 11 months ago

Liberals, It’s Do or Die in an Increasingly Conservative India

The Quint  

Three years after the regime change at the Centre, contemporary liberalism in India is under political siege. Even liberals have appeared uncertain about what they stand for. Not just liberals, leaders of some mainline opposition parties have been reluctant to articulate a compelling public philosophy that would appeal to the people at a time when large sections of the electorate …

UP election results will herald a funeral of 'counterfeit' secularism in India
8 years ago

UP election results will herald a funeral of 'counterfeit' secularism in India

Firstpost  

The counter-secularism forces have registered a decisive victory in UP and this trend is likely to continue through the 2019 elections and beyond. On Saturday, when the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election results were announced, I had argued in Firstpost Decode – the website’s live election day coverage – that BJP’s landslide victory will herald in the “funeral of secularism”, whose …

State vs Hindus – how Indian politics has destroyed the notion of ‘secularism’
8 years, 1 month ago

State vs Hindus – how Indian politics has destroyed the notion of ‘secularism’

Op India  

A wise man once said “When you are used to privilege, equality seems like oppression.” Was reminded of this brilliant quote yesterday when a speech by Prime Minister Narendra Modi evoked hysterical outrage by the so-called left-liberals. That the “Idea of India” gives precedence to an imaginary puppy over actual flesh and blood Hindus killed in firing by the State …

Why, in order to revitalise itself, Congress must make liberalism and defence of personal liberties its USP
8 years, 9 months ago

Why, in order to revitalise itself, Congress must make liberalism and defence of personal liberties its USP

Times of India  

The results of the recent assembly elections have set off another spate of Congress-mukt Bharat opinion pieces. More than just the secular challenge to BJP’s communalism – which many would-be PM aspirants also claim – it is only the Congress party which presents a liberal alternative to BJP’s parochialism and bigotry. By now it is evident that for all of …

Intolerance in Modi’s India: Reading an Adarsh Liberal’s mind
9 years, 4 months ago

Intolerance in Modi’s India: Reading an Adarsh Liberal’s mind

Op India  

“In the scorch of the mid day sun, when the whole world was busy deploring terrorism and manslaughter in the middle east, India awoke to intolerance and fascism” -All JL Nehru ideologues I was a humble shepherd liberally grazing my goats in the grasslands of intellectualism. He’s been to 26 different countries, and our liberal journalists lost the opportunity to …

The need for a new agenda
9 years, 8 months ago

The need for a new agenda

The Hindu  

Secularism is often understood in the narrow confines of religious tolerance. However, inter-religious harmony and tolerance are an important element of the larger concept, which concerns us today, of the “idea of India”. Indeed, for this very reason, given the Left’s visionary commitments to the long struggle for freedom, its role is absolutely central to the realisation of the idea …

‘Liberals’ jumping the gun with falsehood: a rebuttal to an article on Firstpost
9 years, 9 months ago

‘Liberals’ jumping the gun with falsehood: a rebuttal to an article on Firstpost

Op India  

The online portal First Post recently carried a piece by one of their senior editors, G. Pramod Kumar, suggesting that the BJP is only promoting Hindu icons and this is an attempt at imposing a monochromatic narrative of Indian history. If someone argues that G. Pramod Kumar’s reference was only in the context of the celebrations being planned by the …

Gautam Adhikari on The Intolerant Indian
13 years, 11 months ago

Gautam Adhikari on The Intolerant Indian

Hindustan Times  

Renowned journalist and writer Gautam Adhikari's book, HT Image The Intolerant Indian: Why We Must Rediscover a Liberal Space delineates how extremist ideologies obliterate the concept of Liberal Democracy. The perspicacious book deciphers the esoteric meaning in India's version of Secularism and how religious fanaticism has time and again, resurrected the deprecating arguments against Pluralism. The Indian state appeases all …

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