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Holy Cow: Indian Political Chessboard
Holy Cow: Indian Political Chessboard Ram Puniyani Lynching alone has not been the only fallout of making Holy cow as central to the agenda of Hindu nationalist BJP and its…
Reservation for Economically backwards- Yet another Gimmick
Reservation for Economically Backward: Another Gimmick: Jumla! Ram Puniyani Indian caste system has been a big obstacle to the journey towards equality. With Independence and the Indian Constitution coming…
Netaji Bose, Patel, Nehru and anti colonial struggle
Netaji Bose, Nehru and anti Colonial Struggle Ram Puniyani Indian anti colonial struggle has been the major phenomenon which built modern India into a secular democracy. Many of the…
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An Appeal for Crowd Funding Dear Friends Center for Study of Society and Secularism was founded to promote the values of secularism and amity in society. () It has…
Attempts to Polarize ‘God’s Own Country’
Earlier in the year (2017) BJP President Amit Shah had launched ‘Jan Suraksha Yatra’, a two-week program to highlight the death of RSS workers in Kerala. Many BJP dignitaries (twelve…
RSS Controlled Garbh Vigyan Sanskar in pursuit for “Master Race”
The RSS agenda of Hindu Rashtra draws heavily on the superiority of Aryan race and greatness of Brahmanical values. The ideology constructed by this organisation tells us that Aryans are…
Communal Construction of the Past: Attack on Unit Filming Padmavati
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s (SLB) unit filming the period film, Padmavati was attacked recently (January 2017) near Jaipur in Rajasthan. The pretext was that there is a dream sequence in the film…
Let’s Welcome Kareena-Saif’s son Taimur
Let’s Welcome Kareena-Saif’s son Taimur Ram Puniyani The domination of communal consciousness in social space is very frightening. The prevalent ‘social common sense’ looks at history through the…
Demonitization: An Assault on People
Demonization: Assault on the People Ram Puniyani The month old gamble of Mr. Modi (November 2016) has put the whole country in an unprecedented chaos. The demonetization of…