投稿者: Mukul Kesavan
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Whenever mainstream politicians begin to mutter about infiltrators, fifth columnists and failed assimilation, that smell of sulphur is fascism in the airThe problem with “fascism” as a description of any modern political tendency is that the term is a …
Built on the site of a razed mosque, the Ram temple represents the culmination of the Hindu right’s century-long projectMukul Kesavan is a writer based in DelhiThe inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, the small north Indian city that Hindus belie…
The Indian prime minister’s attempts to suppress a critical BBC documentary show how sensitive he is to his international reputationThe clue to the Indian government’s thin-skinned response to the BBC’s two-part documentary, India: The Modi Question, i…
By posing in a digger just after Muslim properties had been razed, Johnson is enabling Modi’s nationalist policiesBoris Johnson belongs in a Bombay film. In a photo from his recent India visit he’s pictured leaning out of the cab of a yellow excavator …
As the second wave devastates India, there is a Nero-vian feel to it all: a smug, inert state indifferent to the smell of burningIn India’s capital city, citizens are dying in their hospital beds because they can’t breathe. Their lungs, clotted with Co…
Modi sells himself as a guardian of India. But a deadly clash with his most powerful neighbour shows his rhetoric has limitsThe Chinese assault on Indian troops near the Galwan Valley, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that serves as an unofficial…
Clashes have been driven by a ruling party intent on painting its largely peaceful opponents as seditious sectariansSince Sunday violent mobs in north-east Delhi have killed 21 people including a police constable, injured hundreds of others, burned mot…