Five Great Film Songs That Challenge Communal Forces
Written by Bharat Dogra and Madhu Dogra Hindi film songs have often played an important role in articulating important social messages and taking them to a very large number of…
Communal Harmony
Guru Tegh Bahadur, Sikhism and Mughals
This first May (2021), was also the day of 400th Anniversary of birth of the Ninth Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadurji. Guruji has a very important place in the consolidation of Sikhism;…
The Struggle for Space: On the Significance of Religious Minorities
Are we losing the “in-built” measures of modernity in the religious minorities’ struggle for reclaiming equal and free space in India? The answer rests in the response of India’s religious…
Is Secularism a threat to Traditions of India?
India got independence from British colonial rule on 15th August 1947 after a long struggle which was inclusive and had plural dimensions. Foundation of Indian Constitution is Liberty, Equality, Fraternity…
Hamid Ansari’s Woes: Plight of Pluralism in India
India began as a plural democracy; respect for diversity was the core value. The provisions of safeguards for minorities were in built. These safeguards were formulated by the Constituent Assembly’s…
For Mahatma Gandhi Equal Respect for All Religions Was One of the Most Essential and Non-Negotiable Aspects of the India He Wanted to Create
If the rulers of our troubled country today make a sincere search for solutions in the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, instead of merely garlanding his statue or photo, one of…
Indian Communalism – A Deep Dive
Written by Hemanty Tudu and Vidhyam Introduction Communal harmony has barely been upheld in recent Indian history. It is always one issue or the other that gets attached to religion…
Choosing My Religion: ‘Freedom of Religion Laws’ to Curb Liberty
Indian Constitution gives us the right to practice, preach and propagate our religion. To not to follow any religion is also a matter of right for the individual. Now in…
Minority Rights Central To India’s Democracy Fiber
Every country, has its share of minorities, whether linguistic, cultural or ethnic. For nearly all the countries, maintaining and securing their interests is a problem. And, for the biggest democracy in the…
Do we really practice Communal Harmony?
India observes communal harmony week from 19th to 25th November. This was started in 1992 by National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH), an autonomous body under Ministry of Home Affairs.…
Why Are Activists and Scholars Devoted to Inter-Faith Harmony Being Accused of the Opposite
Inter-faith harmony is of great importance in all parts of the world, but its importance increases further in a country like India which is home to people of so many…
Faisal Khan’s commitment to peace and harmony, and his unfortunate arrest
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey,Bobby Ramakantand & Kushagra Kumar 48 years old Faisal Khan has invested his entire life to strengthen communal harmony. With the intent to maintain and promote peace…
Faisal Khan’s commitment to communal harmony and peace is exemplary: His arrest is sad
Uttar Pradesh police arrested Faisal Khan in Delhi and brought him to Mathura on 2nd November 2020 but so far neither he has been presented in the court nor police-administration…
Grooming Chimps and Grovelling Minorities- Is this the Dead-End?
Desmond Morris’s pithy observations in The Naked Ape may be considered obsolete in our times, when we are busy talking about posthumans and homo-roboticus; but I think, it still contains…
India’s Composite Culture and Muslim Stalwarts
Contrary to present impression that Muslims are separatists due to whom the partition of India took place, the truth is that majority of Muslims contributed to freedom movement and upheld…
Hope from the field – Amicable Hindu Muslim Collaboration
Co-Written by Supriya Joshi, Vishal Kumar and Sandeep Pandey India is one the most religiously and ethnically diverse nations of the world. It has a syncretic culture and people have…
If India is Secular!
In practice, India has been neither secular nor socialist. It has always functioned as an upper-caste Hindu state. Arundhati Roy The Constitution of India is based on the premise of…
Freedom of Religion: Indian Scenario
India is a plural country with many religions. While the majority religion is Hinduism, Islam and Christianity are the major religious minorities. While Freedom movement accorded them equal status as…
Harmony During the COVID Days
Two recent reports deserve our attention: The first one is the case of a young labourer named Amrit, s/o Ramcharan and his friend Mohammad Yakub was travelling to Basti, UP…
What Do We Know About Ram Puniyani And His Aman Katha
He is one and half year older than Independence of our country. Independence had also brought partition of India. He is from other side of divided India. Of course, he…
The Surgical Strikes On Teesta Setalvad Continue With The Bari Report
Lalita Ramdas writes on the renewed vilification of Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand. Prof. Apoorvanand's article follows this intro: Too many things on my mind - not least…
A Unique Ramlila
We need to remind ourselves that a unique Ramlila, is being staged since 1972, at Bakshi Ka Talab, about 20 km from Lucknow, where lead characters like Rama, Lakshman and…
Decoding Violent Cow Vigilantism
A year has passed since Mohammad Akhlaq, a Muslim ironsmith, was brutally killed in Dadri’s Bishara village by a mob of cow vigilantes in front of his family for allegedly…
I Will NOT Remain Silent…
I read Seema Mustafa’s evocative and heart wrenching piece with sadness and a deep deep sense of foreboding. And what follows is a stream of conscience set of thought and…
Unity With Ideological Clarity Is The Only Way To Defeat Hegemonists
We know the violence against the Dalits, Muslims, aadivasis and Christians is on the rise and it need to be resisted fully. That law and order agencies are not doing…
Nationalists or Notionalists: Nationalism And Hindu Right Wing In India
Nationalism by itself may not be a bad word depending on who defines it. Though it may not be the highest form of progressive political identity, it still has progressive,…
Did Ashoka’s Embracing Buddhism, Promoting Ahimsa Weaken India?
Past is used by communal politics for their present political agenda. In India on one hand we have the use of medieval history where the Muslim Kings are presented as…
Ayodhya or Saket : The politics of Ram Temple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajO5rIqCiOM A documentary by Vidya Bhushan Rawat on the Ayodhya issue and how it affected the communal harmony of India. It is being republished in the context of resurgent Hindutva…
Muzaffarnagar +Dadri + Kairana=Love Jihad+Beef+”Hindu” Exodus=Hard Communalism=Votes
Just before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections Muzaffarnagar erupted in violence in which nearly 80 Muslims died, and thousands fled their villages. Now with the 2017 Assembly elections due in…
Electorally Holy Cow
For many of us, beef has become ‘news’ of unpleasant sort. There is now a forensic report after eight month from a lab in Mathura which claims that the meat…
Two Years Of Modi Sarkar- Broken Promises: Sectarian Agenda
The performance of the Modi Government during last two years has to be seen in the light of the promises made in the electoral campaign and on the barometer of…
Fact-Finding Report On The Alleged Exodus Of Hindus From Kairana
A team of journalists and activists, deputed by The Milli Gazette, on 14 June 2016 visited the town of Kairana in Western Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district which is in the…
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