Shahrukh Alam, a lawyer practicing in India’s Supreme Court, dissects how the country’s law and order machinery has been turned against its Muslim citizens in
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On 25 June this year, India marks 50 years since former prime minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in India. This was the third time that
Development economist Amirullah Khan explains the social indicators that show the stark deprivation of the majority of India’s Muslims, especially in education and employment. He talks
From Himal Southasian The Hindu Right has dispossessed India’s Muslims of meaningful political participation and fair representation while altering electoral politics to cast Muslims as
What more do parties like the CPI(M) and others who think like them want to wait for the Modi regime, powered by the RSS and
In July 2024, hundreds of influential far-right leaders gathered to network at the “National Conservatism” conference, or “NatCon,” in Washington, D.C. While the event was
The chorus of authoritarian propaganda against democratic protests should concern us all. When Greta Thunberg, a student activist against climate change, tweeted a “toolkit” comprising
From Himal Southasian India’s ruling BJP claims to have overcome the “tyranny of distance” that has plagued the Northeast but its politics have created greater
From New Lines Magazine. A day after Narendra Modi first came to power in 2014, the Indian election received a certificate of decolonization from an
In the midst of the current global turn to the right, striking resonances across oceans emerge: strongmen and their allies point to specific and vivid