Plural India – Authored by Ram Puniyani

Communalism

need to Combat Global Sectarianism

Ram PuniyaniSeptember 19, 20182018-09-19T15:45:08+00:00

Need to Combat Emerging Global Sectarianism Like people of all regions and religions, a large number of Hindus have been migrating to all the…

Can RSS be Compared to Muslim Brotherhood?

Ram Puniyani September 10, 2018 Comments Off2018-09-10T21:10:33+00:00

Can RSS be compared to Muslim Brotherhood? Ram Puniyani In his recent tour abroad (August 2018) while addressing the International Institute for Strategic…

Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Liberal Face: Soul of Sangh

Ram Puniyani September 7, 2018 Comments Off2018-09-07T12:24:41+00:00

Atal Bihari Vajpayee: BJP’s Liberal mask with soul of Sangh With the loss of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the ex-Prime minster of India, many obituaries…

Terrorism

World Gripped in the Cancer of Terror

Ram PuniyaniJuly 19, 20162016-07-19T10:23:42+00:00

A World Gripped in the Cancer of Terror The current times are very disturbing as so many innocent lives are being lost and social…

Islamist Terrorism: The Underlying Politics

Ram Puniyani September 27, 2015 Comments Off2016-05-18T15:42:06+00:00

The World at large has suffered massive inhuman acts of violence, terrorism in the name of Islam. There are many glaring insane, cruel acts which…

ISIS, Oil Politics and Peaking of Islamophobia

Ram Puniyani September 5, 2014 Comments Off2016-05-18T15:56:31+00:00

Just a month ago (August 2014) a group of Muslim activists-scholars organized press meets in various cities. They issued a statement condemning the brutal violence…

Communal Violence

Chronicling the dismantling of Idea of India

Ram PuniyaniJuly 29, 20182018-07-29T21:17:12+00:00

Chronicling the dismantling of the ‘Idea of India’ Ram Puniyani The recent debate around ‘no confidence’ in the Loksabha (21st July 2018); brought…

Kasganj Violence: Unveiling the Anatomy of a Riot

Ram Puniyani February 12, 2018 Comments Off2018-04-29T21:24:25+00:00

Communal violence has been the bane of our society. There had been a perception that this violence is a spontaneous clash between two communities. Over…

Communalism and Hate Crimes

Ram Puniyani December 31, 2017 Comments Off2018-04-29T21:21:00+00:00

Communal Violence has been a bane of Indian society since over a century. The base of this violence has been the negative perceptions about the…

Nationalism

Why Arrest of ‘Urban naxals’

Ram PuniyaniSeptember 24, 20182018-09-24T16:13:57+00:00

Why Arrest of Dalit activists-‘Urban Naxals’ The violence in Bheema Koregon is still reverberating. We recall that on January 1st, thousands of dalits returning from…

need to Combat Global Sectarianism

Ram Puniyani September 19, 2018 Comments Off2018-09-19T15:45:08+00:00

Need to Combat Emerging Global Sectarianism Like people of all regions and religions, a large number of Hindus have been migrating to all the…

Can RSS be Compared to Muslim Brotherhood?

Ram Puniyani September 10, 2018 Comments Off2018-09-10T21:10:33+00:00

Can RSS be compared to Muslim Brotherhood? Ram Puniyani In his recent tour abroad (August 2018) while addressing the International Institute for Strategic…

Religion

Just garlanding of portraits is honoring Ambedkar?

Ram PuniyaniApril 24, 20182018-04-30T15:03:11+00:00

This 14th April the 127th birth anniversary of Bhimrao Ambedkar was marked by a heightened celebrations of the occasion by most of the political formations but more…

Hindus, Muslims and RSS Chief Bhagwat

Ram Puniyani March 13, 2018 Comments Off2018-04-29T21:27:29+00:00

RSS is one of the only organizations, which claims to be cultural and controls the political agenda of the National ruling party. Over years taking…

Ram Rajya Rath Yatra: Road to Power

Ram Puniyani February 28, 2018 Comments Off2018-04-30T15:02:34+00:00

The decades of 1980s were a turning point in the history of the country. For the first time emotive issue like Ram Temple took the…

History

Bhima Koregaon: Dalits in Search of Icons from History

Ram PuniyaniJanuary 8, 20182018-04-29T21:27:52+00:00

Maharashtra witnessed unprecedented violence against the dalits who had congregated to pay tributes to the dalits soldiers (1st January 2018), who were part of the British…

How to Revive the spirit of Quit India Movement ?

Ram Puniyani August 21, 2017 Comments Off2017-12-13T13:26:52+00:00

The ‘Quit India’ movement 1942, whose 75th anniversary is currently being celebrated, was the major landmark in the struggle for India’s Independence. On 8thAugust the Indian…

Understanding Kashmir Imbroglio 2016

Ram Puniyani November 8, 2016 Comments Off2016-11-08T20:23:07+00:00

Understanding Kashmir Imbroglio 2016 Ram Puniyani In the din of hysteria created around the military action on LOC, which was in response to the killing…

Dalit

Why Arrest of ‘Urban naxals’

Ram PuniyaniSeptember 24, 20182018-09-24T16:13:57+00:00

Why Arrest of Dalit activists-‘Urban Naxals’ The violence in Bheema Koregon is still reverberating. We recall that on January 1st, thousands of dalits returning from…

Which Party for interests of Dalits Today?

Ram Puniyani August 24, 2018 Comments Off2018-08-24T09:27:05+00:00

Which party cares for Dalits Today? Ram Puniyani Recently anti-dalit atrocity laws were first diluted inserting the clause of anticipatory bail. Following this there…

Rohith Vemula: Hindutva Politics and Dalit Question Today

Ram Puniyani February 4, 2016 Comments Off2016-05-18T15:46:01+00:00

The death of Rohith Vemula has been projected as suicide by some and murder by others, depending on their political orientation. Rohith’s being dalit and…

Gender

Uniform Civil Code or Gender Just Laws

Ram PuniyaniNovember 8, 20162016-11-08T20:20:40+00:00

Uniform Civil Code or Gender Just Laws Ram Puniyani The current atmosphere (October 2016) is charged with the intense and passionate debates around…

Does love know Religious boundaries?

Ram Puniyani August 19, 2014 Comments Off2016-05-18T15:57:44+00:00

Communal politics, communal violence all over used women’s bodies as the site of contestation and community honor. This is the worst expression of patriarchal values…

Striving for Gender Justice: Overcoming Obstacles

Ram Puniyani July 13, 2014 Comments Off2016-05-12T15:48:52+00:00

While on one hand a PIL has been filed for UCC, there is another significant development in this direction. This relates to the personal laws…

Syncretic Tradition

Harmony in Hisotry

Ram PuniyaniJuly 19, 20182018-07-19T15:17:58+00:00

Harmony in History Ram Puniyani The rise of communal problem in India has been accompanied by a great deal of misinterpretation of…

Lord, Why am I banned from your Abode?

Ram Puniyani February 16, 2016 Comments Off2016-05-27T21:35:41+00:00

Women’s entry in Places of Worship One is witnessing strange incidents where the women from Muslim and Hindu community are facing similar obstacles. This relates…

Assault on Syncretic Traditions

Ram Puniyani October 2, 2015 Comments Off2016-05-10T12:43:16+00:00

The country is undergoing a regressive attack in different fields of life. Apart from the political undermining of secularism, pluralism and Indian nationalism, the cultural…