Losing sleep over communal violence and hate propaganda
Yes, I was in digital detox slumber..but the worthies at NAC managed to wake me up. Â Below , collated readings on the Communal Violence Bill, proposed by the NAC. Do read and worry. Â And...
Category: Politics of Minority Appeasement
Afzal Guru, a new process and a certain “secular†party
Very hurried post but getting this out since it has been bothering me since morning. First a bit of background (emphasis added)… The Supreme Court had in January 2006 dismissed Guru’s appeal against the...
Cameron, muscular liberalism and a sense of deja vu…
I woke up this morning to this statement by David Cameron, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Speaking at a conference in Germany, he said (emphasis added): Frankly, we need a lot less of the passive...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO, it is an “illegal religious structureâ€*
Some of you may remember this tweet from barbarindian yesterday in which he referred to this report by PTI on the demolition of an “illegal” religious structure: ..Police on Wednesday lobbed teargas shells and...
Why equating radical Islam with “Hindutva Terror” is dumb, stupid and dangerous
Sadanand Dhume explains it well. A brief excerpt below (emphasis added): Simply put, the notion that the radical Hindu threat to India is comparable to that posed by radical Islam is ludicrous. First there’s...
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