पश्चिम बंगाल के बांकुड़ा ज़िले में 60 वर्षीय एक मुस्लिम फेरीवाले पर 6 सितंबर को तीन लोगों ने हमला किया. उन्होंने उनकी गर्दन और पेट में चाकू मारा और कथित तौर पर उनसे जबरदस्ती ‘जय श्रीराम’ का नार...| The Wire – Hindi
Shikwa-e-Hind offers an extended, evidence-rich and calmly argued rebuff to monolithic, reified characterisations of India’s 200 million or so people of Muslim faith or culture or both. The author, Mujibur Rehman, reminds us of the complexity, richness, and variety of the country’s largest religious minority, and the intricate ways in which what he calls its “historically dense identity” is woven into India’s history and material reality.| Frontline
Many people “know” that that the Buddha “was born a Hindu.” But this, like the ideas that he was a prince and that he left home after seeing “the four sights” is also untrue. The “Hindu Prince” Writers often bundle myth of the Buddha having been born a Hindu together with his supposed princely status. For...| Wildmind
John joins Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian for the roundup episode of the second series of Violent Majorities, focusing on long-distance ethnonationalism. Looking back at their conversations wit…| Recall This Book
Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as long-distance ethnonationalism; here they speak wi…| Recall This Book
अरब देश का भारत, भृगु के पुत्र शुक्राचार्य तथा उनके पोत्र और्व से ऐतिहासिक संबंध प्रमाणित है, यहाँ तक कि “हिस्ट्री ऑफ पर्शिया” के लेखक साइक्स का मत है कि अरब का नाम और्व के ही नाम पर पड़ा, जो वि...| Vikram Pareek