Plural India – Authored by Ram Puniyani

Communalism

Communalising Population Growth: Understanding Demographic Data

Ram PuniyaniFebruary 27, 20172017-05-28T13:20:33+00:00

The biases and misconceptions about conversions and population growth have been used by communal forces to divide the society. This became apparent once again when…

Election Season and Return of Lord Ram

Ram Puniyani November 8, 2016 Comments Off2016-11-08T20:18:17+00:00

Election Season and Return of Lord Ram Ram Puniyani Lord Ram has served the BJP very well so far. It was the Ram…

Confusions around Term Hindutva

Ram Puniyani November 8, 2016 Comments Off2016-11-08T13:08:00+00:00

Confusions around term Hindutva Ram Puniyani On October 25 (2016) the seven member Supreme Court Bench started hearing to revisit ‘Hindutva’ cases. These…

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

Gulbarg Society Carnage: Who Cast the First Stone?

Ram PuniyaniJune 21, 20162016-07-14T19:51:49+00:00

Communal violence is the big bane of Indian society. While on one hand the innocents are killed the guilty mostly get away without any punishment.…

Hate Crimes and Communal Polarization

Ram Puniyani July 13, 2014 Comments Off2016-05-12T15:48:32+00:00

The Modi Sarkar has been installed in power from last three weeks or so (May 16, 2014). While there is lots of hope from this…

Myth of Clean Chit: Gujarat Carnage and Narendra Modi

Ram Puniyani February 6, 2014 Comments Off2016-05-18T16:05:45+00:00

In a recently televised interview the Vice-President of Indian National Congress, Rahul Gandhi (Jan 2014) raised the storm when he said that some Congressmen might…

Nationalism

Yogi as CM: Portents for Politics in India

Ram PuniyaniApril 9, 20172017-05-28T13:41:52+00:00

The spectacular victory of BJP in UP Assembly poll was capped by choosing of Adityanath Yogi as the Chief Minister of UP. He had not…

Indian Republic 2017: Times are a Changing

Ram Puniyani February 1, 2017 Comments Off2017-05-28T13:00:38+00:00

As we are the approach the republic day (2017) many questions start to haunt our mind. What has been the direction of our politics in…

National Anthem in Cinema Houses

Ram Puniyani December 18, 2016 Comments Off2016-12-18T14:07:14+00:00

Can Compulsions Elicit Respect? Singing of National Anthem in Cinema Halls Ram Puniyani Supreme Court Order on national Anthem (November 2016) has asked theatres…

Religion

What is our Nationality: Indian or Hindu?

Ram PuniyaniFebruary 21, 20172017-05-28T13:16:01+00:00

Debate around the words Hindu, Hinduism, Hindutva is not new. Recently the assertion by Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalk (Supreme Dictator) of RSS that ‘everyone living…

Gita is a Hindu Scripture, Yes

Ram Puniyani January 6, 2017 Comments Off2017-01-06T15:53:01+00:00

Gita is a Not National book, its Hindu Scripture! Ram Puniyani The Haryana government organized Gita Festival in Kurkshetra with a budget of Rs 100 Crores.…

Confusions around Term Hindutva

Ram Puniyani November 8, 2016 Comments Off2016-11-08T13:08:00+00:00

Confusions around term Hindutva Ram Puniyani On October 25 (2016) the seven member Supreme Court Bench started hearing to revisit ‘Hindutva’ cases. These…

History

Understanding Kashmir Imbroglio 2016

Ram PuniyaniNovember 8, 20162016-11-08T20:23:07+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…

Election Season and Return of Lord Ram

Ram Puniyani November 8, 2016 Comments Off2016-11-08T20:18:17+00:00

Election Season and Return of Lord Ram Ram Puniyani Lord Ram has served the BJP very well so far. It was the Ram…

Revolutionary Bhagat Singh and Freedom Movement

Ram Puniyani May 18, 2016 Comments Off2016-05-27T22:57:40+00:00

History is always subject of debates for various reasons. The one which cropped up recently around Bhagat Singh had a new dimension to ‘looking at…

Dalit

Rohith Vemula: Hindutva Politics and Dalit Question Today

Ram PuniyaniFebruary 4, 20162016-05-18T15:46:01+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…

Worshipping Gods in the times of Elections

Ram Puniyani April 28, 2014 Comments Off2016-05-12T15:51:27+00:00

Arun Shourie, who was part of NDA, a fellow traveler and an ideologue of BJP wrote several books, many of them against minorities and dalits…

Modi’s Caste and Hindutva Political Strategies

Ram Puniyani January 28, 2014 Comments Off2016-05-12T15:53:10+00:00

As Narendra Modi was close to being nominated the Prime Ministerial candidate, another Modi, Sushil Modi, flaunted Modi’s backward caste origins. Recently (Jan 2014) in…

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

Lord, Why am I banned from your Abode?

Ram PuniyaniFebruary 16, 20162016-05-27T21:35:41+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…

Saluting Courage: Memorial for Vasant Rajab

Ram Puniyani September 27, 2015 Comments Off2016-05-27T21:48:51+00:00

Gujarat violence (2002) was horrific. In this, after the burning of train in Godhra in which 58 innocents died, the same tragedy was made the…