Articles by: Ajay Gudavarthy

Reflections on How to Fight Hindutva

Reflections on How to Fight Hindutva

The fight against Hindutva cannot be from the outside, it has to be from within. It has to get to the core structure of how it oscillates between the real and the unreal. Hindutva is a strange animal, quasi-real, and quasi-manufactured. Part of it is optics and part of it is organic. At one level it connects the social and[Read More…]

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The Anatomy of Anger and Hatred in India

The Anatomy of Anger and Hatred in India

Dominant social groups need to make the necessary distinction between legitimate anger to set right history and illegitimate hatred to push back history. For, anger is organic while hatred is manufactured. The last five years had witnessed an explosion of anger and hatred that got manifested in protests and street violence. If we are to go by even the first[Read More…]

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