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

Kasganj Violence: Unveiling the Anatomy of a Riot

Ram PuniyaniFebruary 12, 20182018-04-29T21:24:25+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…

Gulbarg Society Carnage: Who Cast the First Stone?

Ram Puniyani June 21, 2016 Comments Off2016-07-14T19:51:49+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.…

Nationalism

Rewriting of History and Sectarian Nationalism

Ram PuniyaniApril 29, 20182018-04-29T21:17:14+00:00

With the Hindu nationalist BJP in the seat of power an exercise in History writing is being undertaken on lines parallel to what was done…

Sectarianism suppressing democratic Right of Expression

Ram Puniyani October 20, 2017 Comments Off2017-12-13T12:44:33+00:00

Freedom of expression has been the core value which accompanied the struggle for India’s Independence. The British did attempt to stifle the voices of dissent…

Yogi as CM: Portents for Politics in India

Ram Puniyani April 9, 2017 Comments Off2017-05-28T13:41:52+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…

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

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…