Now that the unrest has subsided, it is imperative for Nepalis—young and old—to reckon with the contradictions emerging from ...

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India exhibits many of the conditions that preceded the upheavals in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, though at potentially ...

Afsar Mohammad's book explores obscured histories of the Police Action, or Operation Polo. His focus is on how these ...

These four Sanskrit sentences constitute the first of the three stanzas of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s official prayer, which continues to be sung to this day at its shakhas—regular assemblies ...

A GROUP OF AROUND TEN PEOPLE arrived outside the Hyatt Regency in Ahmedabad early in the morning of 14 February 2016. Chanting “Jai Shri Ram” and “Shah Rukh Khan hai hai,” they threw stones into the ...

PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI and the larger Hindu-nationalist ecosystem often distinguish between two categories of journalists. The first is that of “news traders”—media persons who are sponsored by ...

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THESE LINES, translated from Malayalam, are part of what is known as the Mappila Ramayana. As countless other places and communities have done, the Mappilas—Muslims who live in the Malabar region of ...

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THE DOGRA REGIMENTAL CENTRE in Faizabad Cantonment—now renamed Ayodhya Cantonment—is a few kilometres from where the Babri Masjid stood until a Hindu mob demolished it, in December 1992. In 2022, the ...