We may welcome it, or we may condemn it. We cannot deny it. Hindu upsurge is a fact and in all probability it is there to stay. That is what lends significance to 1990 above all else. India has taken a historic turn. Only the pace of the march towards … Read More
We did not need the latest riots in Aligarh, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad to show that our ‘secular’ order is in deep trouble. This has been evident for years and, indeed, decades, even if many of us have refused to recognise the reality and come to grips with it. For instance, … Read More
A spectre haunts dominant sections of India’s political and intellectual elites – the spectre of a growing Hindu self-awareness and self-assertion. Till recently these elites had used the bogey of Hindu ‘communalism’ and revivalism as a convenient device to keep themselves in power and to ‘legitimize’ their slavish imitation of … Read More
The Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute has brought to the fore the critical issue of the nature of the Indian State as nothing else has since partition and independence in 1947. The secularist-versus-Hindu-Rashtra controversy is, of course, not new. In fact, it has been with us since the twenties when some … Read More
