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Sign of the times: This is the darkest hour
Humra Quraishi revisits her conversations with Saira Banu and Khushwant Singh, both of whom had predicted that the times to come, which are here, will be darker than the...
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Where there is no will, there is violence
Humra Quraishi talks about how polarisation in grassroots India, by the use of state machinery, is spreading violence and fear among minorities. Earlier this week a ...
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Signs of the times: India’s battle for its soul
Humra Quraishi looks back at the last seven years in India, through the lens of A.G. Noorani’s writings about the RSS and Ruskin Bond’s verse. For several minut...
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How civilized is the civilized world?
Vinta Nanda insists that we, the so-called civilized people, talk about poverty, violence and exclusion. Let us talk about what it means to be born under the sky and be vic...
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Signs of the times: Death and Destruction
Humra Quraishi recalls Saadat Hasan Manto in the month of his birth, and imagines what he would have said and written in these tragic times. May stands for Manto - after al...
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Signs of the times: Not afraid of the dark
Humra Quraishi describes one part of the apocalypse we are experiencing in India right now – only one part. What’s happening to the jailed population during the...
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Reimagining Ambedkar
Ambedkar appears in many different ways in the ordinary life of Dalits, writes Badri Narayan Educated followers read his texts and use his arguments and visions for t...
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Signs of the times: Nothing’s right
Humra Quraishi says that the signs of fascism are spreading, yet as mute spectators we sit quiet and subdued. One prominent sign: the masses are being rendered so fragile a...
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Signs of the times: She’s a street fighter
Humra Quraishi questions EVMs, expresses fear and helplessness among people with regard to democracy and dives into Shutapa Paul’s book ‘Didi – the untold Ma...
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Bhagat Singh’s writings on caste
In his writings on caste, Bhagat Singh understood the practice of untouchability and its associated binary of purity-pollution as an integral part of Hinduism. The influence ...
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