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Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) does not support the call by certain Muslim organisations for a re-ban on Salman Rushdie’s book Satanic Verses.
IMSD calls upon Muslims to recall the views expressed by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan well over a century ago. In his time, he staunchly opposed (…)
Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent Putinist ideologue from Russia, was in Delhi last week.
There has been no critical scrutiny of his visit among political analysts, intellectuals, and democratic rights activists. This is an indifference we can ill afford.
Dugin represents a global ideological (…)
Perhaps as the RSS readies for its centenary in 2025, we will see more attempts from the RSS to sell itself as a global role model and India as the ideological destination for ’National Conservatives’ from around the world.
Cultural nationalism, the standard RSS description of its ideology, (…)
Following India’s 2024 general elections, Green Left’s Isaac Nellist spoke with Clifton D’Rozario, a leading member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPIML), about the results. The CPIML, along with other left and democratic parties, ran under a broad democratic (…)
Here are edited excerpts from an exclusive interview after Achin Vanaik’s speech at the Jindal Global University on India’s foreign policy and its impact on education. The interview makes frequent references to the Bharatiya Janta Party [BJP], a right-wing political party which has been in power (…)
SPEAKING IN THE Canadian parliament in September 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed that Canada’s security agencies were looking into “credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen,” Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Some (…)
Montreal. January 22, 2024. Over 20 Indian diaspora groups in the UK, USA, Australia, France, Canada issue a joint statement on concerns regarding Ram mandir inauguration.
Joint Statement Indian civil society organizations are extremely concerned about the dangerous precedent set by the (…)
On 25 November 2023, Rambhadracharya, the high priest at a temple in the pilgrim town of Chitrakoot, in Madhya Pradesh, told a news channel that the Hindu god Ram had granted him a divine visitation one morning. He had woken up to relieve himself, he said, when Ram appeared before him in the (…)
In much of India, Hindutva has got into the bloodstream of not only the middle classes but even of the lower classes/castes including sections of Dalits. Let alone left thought even the democratic thoughts of Ambedkar seem to be on the back burner. Whichever party is in power, even at the state (…)
What’s unfolding in Ashoka University reflects the ascendancy of a fascistic state. No country can be self-reliant if its universities are effectively destroyed and reduced to coaching centres.
When Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule in the country is dead and gone, a good deal of the damage (…)
Ironically, in secular India the ulema continue to cling to medieval, patriarchal notions of gender relations in the name of Islam.
• Ironically, in secular India the ulema continue to cling to medieval, patriarchal notions of gender relations in the name of Islam. Contrary to their false (…)
Clifton D’ Rozario, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, talks to Jacob Andrewartha ahead of his participation in the Ecosocialism 2023 conference on July 1–2, about the rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and how the left is fighting back against his fascist (…)
“A strange dusk has descended upon the earth today/ ….. Those whose hearts are devoid of any love and affection, never swayed by any sense of pity/ These are the people who advice us now as to how the world must move./ And those who still feel it’s (…)
Javed Anand writes: Secularists must support rights of Muslims in an increasingly Islamophobic world, but they should be wary of strengthening the Muslim right in the process
To make sense of the contradictory voices within the community of secular-minded Indians on the raging hijab (…)
The defense of victims of one (majority) religious fundamentalist extreme right should not lead to supporting another (be it minority) one.
Dear friends,
I am following closely the events in Karnataka university/colleges and the controversy about female students wearing various head covering (…)
The Booker-winning author says the present situation in the country is “extremely depressing” but she believes there are signs that the Indian people are climbing out of the hole they’ve fallen into.
‘Amidst the confusion, chaos and cacophony of Indian politics, what sort of country are we (…)
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More than 150 secular human rights activists strongly condemn the attempt by Hindutva forces and the BJP government of Karnataka to engulf college and school campuses in the already raging communal fire in the state.
At the same time, IMSD disagrees with the claim of the (…)
The cost of installing the latest sculpture alone – Rs 1000 crore – is equivalent to one-third of the entire allocation of the Union government’s culture ministry for this year.
Just as the Mughal Empire was known for exquisite miniature paintings, to the extent that the ‘Mughal Miniature’ is (…)
At least three major incidents have been reported from Karnataka since January where students have been denied entry into the premises of educational institutions for wearing ’hijab’.
New Delhi: Protesting against students wearing hijabs inside the classroom, a section of students in (…)
In recent years, the NCPCR has devoted considerable attention to poorly substantiated complaints against minority communities.
A little after noon on December 6, Rahul Raghuvanshi was about halfway through writing his maths exam paper in St Joseph’s School in the town of Ganj Basoda in Madhya (…)
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